BOOMING Guangdong and Fujian should give priority to improving their roads and power supply, according to a Hongkong academic.
Professor Yeung Yue-man, director of the Hongkong Institute of Asia-Pacific Studies at the Chinese University of Hongkong, told a seminar yesterday that infrastructure developments in China, particularly in the Pearl River delta, required the co-operation of Hongkong, Macau and China.
He said an economic growth rate that outstripped the pace of infrastructure development brought fundamental problems.
''Southern China stands in the forefront of China's economic development, with Guangdong and Fujian as spearheads due to their respective proximity to Hongkong and Taiwan,'' Professor Yeung said.
He said the railways in the west of Guangdong were better than in the east, while Fujian's network was incomplete.
Professor Yeung said Guangdong and Fujian planned a highway between the two provinces, and the Beijing-Guangzhou railway was scheduled to open in 1995.