Select Committee on Foreign Affairs Memoranda


Annex D

The costs of establishing the Consulates-General in China

  Hong Kong (new British Consulate-General offices, September 1996, designed to absorb functions of former British Trade Commission and some of those of Joint Liaison Group office): £31,908,000.

Guangzhou:
Consulate-General offices 1997
£510,000
Visa offices 1998
£291,000
Visa office expansion 1999
£200,000
Commercial offices planned
January 2001 (estimate)
£400,000
Total
£1,401,000
Chongqing—January 2000
£400,000


  Shanghai—opened in 1985. Information on the costs not currently available (but a search of historical records could be carried out if required.)


 
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