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Stage 2 Study

7.

The Stage 1

report

contains a vast amount of

information that, for the first time, gives a comprehensive

profile of current development trends in the region and will help

provide a solid foundation for developing a view of the potential impacts on Hong Kong of

Hong Kong of a range of probable regional growth scenarios in the Stage 2 study. In that process, the Planning Department may need to have informal exchanges of views with the

appropriate Provincial, County, Municipal and Special Economic

Zone authorities. For the purpose, visits to Guangdong for working level staff of the Department (possibly with the study

consultants) may need to be arranged in consultation with the

Political Adviser, preferably during the TDS consultation period

(i.e. from October 1993 to December 1993). The purpose of the

visits would be fourfold:

(a) to obtain reactions from the Chinese authorities on

TDS consultation documents which have been

the

released to the public;

(b) to provide an opportunity for an informal interchange

of views and ideas on major planning and infrastructural proposals in Hong Kong and Guangdong;

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(d)

to

seek first-hand information and briefings on

planning and infrastructural proposals in Guangdong Province that might have major impact on Hong Kong development; and

to strengthen contacts with relevant Chinese planning

authorities and organisations.