China/Hong Kong Quick Facts
CHINA – QUICK FACTS
POPULATION: 1.2 billon.
GOVERNMENT: Communist, though allowing development of market economy.
LEADERS: 90-year-old Deng Xiaoping still considered supreme leader, though is reported to be near death. Day-to-day leaders are Premier Li Peng and president Jiang Zemin.
ANNUAL GNP PER CAPITA: $623.
GROWTH: Economy grew 13.4 per cent in 1993.
IMPORTS FROM CANADA: $1.7 billion. Mostly wheat, electrical and mechanical equipment, wood pulp, fertilizers, plastics.
EXPORTS TO CANADA: $3.1 billion. Mostly clothing, cotton, games and toys, leather goods, footwear, mechanical equipment and oilseeds.
HONG KONG – QUICK FACTS
POPULATION: 6 million.
GOVERNMENT: British Crown colony until 1997 takeover by China.
GDP 1994: $160 billion.
PER CAPITA GDP: $28,100 (higher than Canada).
COMBINED FOREIGN INVESTMENT, 1994: $67 billion.
LARGEST INVESTORS: China, Japan, U.S., Netherlands, U.K.
INTERVIEWS
-Johannes Chan, senior law lecturer, university of Hong Kong.
-Raymond Chan, Canadian Secretary of State, Asia-Pacific Relations, Vancouver. Cheng Lin-cheng, economics professor, National Taiwan University, Taipei.
-Roger Clark, secretary general, Amnesty International Canada, Ottawa.
-Michael Crook, Canada-China Cooperation Support Unit, Beijing.
-Nona Grandea, researcher, North-South Institute, Ottawa.
-Joanna Kerr, researcher, North-South Institute, Ottawa.
-Martin Lee, chairman, Democratic Party of Hong Kong.
-Christine Loh, legislative councillor, Hong Kong.
-Annette Lu, chairwoman, Taiwan parliamentary foreign affairs committee, Taipei.
-Lu Ya-li, political scientist, National Taiwan university, Taipei.
-Goenawan Mohamad, chairman, council of founders of the Foundation for the Center for Human Rights Study, Hong Kong.
-Gertrude Mongella, secretary general, Fourth U.N. World Conference of Women, Beijing.
-Robin Munro, director, Human Rights Watch/Asia, Hong Kong.
-Bob Peck, press secretary to Andre Ouellet, Foreign Affairs Minister, Ottawa. Nelia Sancho, director, Asian Women’s Human Rights council, Manila.
-Miranda Sears, director, Amnesty International, Hong Kong.
-Shen Goufang, spokesman, Chinese Foreign Ministry, Beijing.
-Tsai I-Chung, dentist, Tainan, Taiwan.
-Liu Chung Tung, founder, Awakening women’s group, Taipei.
-Jiaxian (Jessie) Wang, professor, Beijing Foreign Studies University.
-Wang Xingjuan, founder, Women’s Research Institute, Beijing.
-Byron Weng, law professor, Chinese University of Hong Kong.
-Wu Jau-Shieh, professor, National Chengchi University’s Institute of
International Relations, Taipei.
-Zhang Yanling, press director, Women’s Research Institute, China Academy of Management Science, Beijing.
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