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HONG Kong consumers spent 6.6 billion yuan (US$792 million) in Shenzhen last year, mostly on cheap goods and entertainment, a HKSAR government survey showed.\;
The figure is nearly one-third of that spent in Guangdong Province in 2000, which hit HK$20.3 billion while the figure for the whole inland area of China reached HK$29.4 billion. Hong Kongers are regularly lured by less expensive leisure, entertainment and shopping, the Census and Statistics Department of the HKSAR Government said.\;
Last year about 33.8 million people from Hong Kong visited the mainland on non-business trips, with each person spending an average of HK$870, the department said in its first such survey.\;
For the whole of 2000, a record 50.1 million Hong Kongers visited the inland, a sharp rise over the past decade from 19.1 million in 1991.\;
(SD-Agencies)
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