Tung's Strategy THE ECONOMY: Tung wants to use land grants and tax incentives to attract high-end manufacturing, while stamping out any corruption that seeps in from China. QUALITY OF LIFE: Tung wants more affordable middle-class and low-income housing, plus better schools and better care for the elderly poor. POLITICS: His biggest potential problem. Tung hopes he can deliver on prosperity and so shift the attention of ordinary citizens from volatile issues such as civil liberties. CHINA: Tung intends to defuse any tensions with China through quiet negotiations. But no one knows how China will react to serious political disruptions in Hong Kong.

Updated June 14, 1997 by bwwebmaster
Copyright 1996, by The McGraw-Hill Companies Inc. All rights reserved.
Terms of Use