News from NATURUA KETES AGRICY
the united nations and opposed all schemes of creating "two chinas", on "one china, one taiwan". we express our sincere thanks for this. he said: the recent years have witnessed great development in the friendly relations and cooperation between our two parties, countries and peoples in various fields. not long ago, the romanian party and goverment delegation led by comrade nicolae ceausescu paid a successful visit to china, which has made important contributions to the further development of the revolutionary friendship between our two peoples and the friendly cooperation between our two countries. the chinese military friendship delegation led by comrade li ten-sheng is now in bucharest, joining the fraternal romanian people in joyously celebrating today's festive occasion. this is another expression of 'sino-romanian friendship. our romanian comrades may rest
assured that in their cause of building and defending their motherland, the chinese people who have been tempered through the great proletarian cultural revolution will forever remain their reliable friends and firmly support their just struggle.
sarin chhak, minister of foreign affairs, and thiounn mumm, minister of economy and finance, of the royal government of national union of cambodia, attended the reception.
present at the reception were:
chi fang, pei shin-chang and hsieh fu-min, members of the n.p.c. standing committee; and
Leading members of departments under the c.p.c. central committee, goverment departments, the p.l.a., the peking municipal révolutionary committee and the chinese people's association for friendship with foreign countries, including keng piao, jen yun-chung, shen chien, peng shao-hui, huang chih-yung, wang hsi-ke, kuang jen-nung, chou nsi-han, fang yi, li chiang, wu teh, Li shui-ching, yang chien, sun hsiao-feng, yạng li-kung, chang chi-chin, ting hsi-lin and ma jen-hui.
diplomatic envoys of various countries to china were present. end item
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japanese junior table tennis delegation and j.t.t.a. visiting group. Leave peking for shanghai
peking, august 23 chsinhua) -- the japanese junior table tennis delegation led by atsushi goto, the visiting group of the japanese table tennis association led by yaichiro yamamoto, and the japanese correspondents with the delegation Left here for shanghai by air this morning after a friendly visit in the chinese capital.
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TUESDAY, AUGUST 24. 1971
they were seen off at the airport by leading members of the chinese table tennis association, the china-japan friendship association and other organizations concerned sung chung, wang hsiao-yun, lu ting and tsou po-hsien, chinese table tennis players chuang tse-tung and Lin hui-ching and chinese junior table tennis players.
japanese friends in peking rinji miyaishi, yoshikiyo nyodo and nobunisa izawa were present at the airport.
on the eve of their departure, the japanese visitors were guests at a farewell banquet given by the china-japan friendship association, end item
082307 two volumes of "complete works of marx and engels"
printed in chinese
peking, august 23 chsinhua) the 35th and 37th volumes of the "complete works of marx and engels", translated into chinese by the bureau for the translation of marx-engels- Lenin-stalin's works under the central committee of the communist party of china, have been published by the people's publishing house to meet the needs of the cadres, workers, peasants and soldiers throughout the country in their study of marxism- Leninism.
the two books are being distributed by the hsinhua bookstores in;various parts of the country. end item
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hongkong seriously hit by typhoon
hongkong, august 23 chsinhua) a typhoon hit hongkong on august 17 and caused heavy losses to tens of thousands of chinese compatriots here.
preliminary statistics published by the british authorities in hongkong up to the 21st show that in hongkong, kowloon and the new territories more than one hundred people lost their lives in the typhoon and over three hundred people were injured. several thousand living rooms were destroyed and a number of ships and fishing boats were destroyed or sunk. heavy losses were caused to the standing crops on the outskirts. the most seriously hit were areas of wooden shanties inhabited by the poor.
after hongkong was hit by typhoon some relief measures were adopted. the masses of chinese compatriots and various patriotic trade unions, organizations, institutions and schools in hongkong are working energetically in the spirit of mutual assistance and expressed warm concern for the victims and gave them material help. end item