The textbooks to be used in 1997 will be approved by the Hong Kong educational authorities in 1996, after which private publishing houses will put them into print. This means that anyone who wishes to affect the post-1997 textbooks must deal with the Hong Kong educational authorities today.
而九七年使用的教科書，要在九六年由港英政府的教育署審查和推薦，讓出版商正式付印出版。