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and Guangdong. According to the same report, the financial reponsibility system had been introduced in respect of Guangdong in 1979 and later in Shanghai and other provinces and municipalities. In 1988 the State Council had decided to change

the financial responsibility system from a fixed sum basis to a sliding scale system. Under the latter, Guangdong initially paid 7% to the Centre but this was increased to 9% by 1992.

province's payment to the centre by then was Y6-7 bn. According

to WWP (9 Nov) Zhu was accompanied by over 60 officials on his visit to Hainan and Guangdong for discussions on fiscal reform.

B2.

The

Several other senior figures visited Guangdong, including: (in late September) Jiang Zemin (see A3), who was accompanied by Ding Guangen, Wen Jiabao and Zhang Wannian; Zou Jiahua (accompanied by State Council Deputy Secretary General Zhang Kezhi) who attended the inaugural ceremony for the China Southern Airlines group in Guangzhou on 10 October; Li Lanqing (also in October) who was reported to have listened to reports

by local government departments and by provincial government officials and customs personnel on anti-smuggling work; Tian Jiyun who visited Shenzhen and Zhuhai; Vice-Minister of Railways Sun Yongfu who attended a mobilisation rally at Heyuan for speeding up construction of the Peking-Kowloon Railway; and German Chancellor Helmut Kohl who visited Guangzhou on 19 November (see also B51).

B3.

Zou Jiahua and Chen Jinhua were again in Guangdong in early November when they attended ceremonies for the start of construction of ethylene plants at Guangzhou and Maoming.

B4.

The recently established China Southern Airlines Group is one of the 55 companies in the first batch of experimental

enterprise groups. It has 50 Boeing aircraft and 51 aircraft of

other types.

It operates over 130 internal routes and 23

international routes, serving a total of more than 60 cities (SD

11 Oct).

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