A city built on the backbone of trading should have no difficulty coming up with answers. The parallel-goods traders are only doing what Hong Kong does on a larger scale every day: buy and sell. Instead of shunning, vilifying or driving them away, we should be capitalising. A plan for an outdoor shopping centre near the Lok Ma Chau border checkpoint that would convert shipping containers into shops is the right idea; if it can get backing, the 420,000 sq ft site could be ready by the start of the mainland's Golden Week holiday in October.
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