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5. For China the main point to be resolved is whether the
Prime Minister should visit Canton on her way from Shanghai
to Hong Kong. In my letters of 26 and 31 August we
recommended that she should. We have also not received the
Prime Minister's agreement that there should be a function
at Shanghai (the 1800 reception) and that the Ambassador
should host it (see my letter of today's date on that
subject). The visit proposed earlier to the Peking Cancer
Research Institute has been dropped because the Professor
who has been instrumental in promoting cooperation in this
field will not be in Peking at the time. Finally, we
cannot decide whether the Prime Minister should visit the
Shanghai Museum or a Chinese destroyer on the morning of
25 September until we know whether the contract between
Contract Vosper Thorney croft/British Aerospace for destroyer modern-
isation has been signed.
6.
The only addition to the outline programme for Hong Kong
as agreed by the Prime Minister in early August is the
inclusion of a short meeting between the Prime Minister and
a delegation of Urban Councillors on Monday, 27 September,
in support of which John Holmes wrote to Tim Flesher on
27 August. In your reply of you said that the Prime
Minister had indicated that she would prefer to talk to
businessmen rather than receive a delegation from the Urban
Council. There is, in fact, already ample opportunity in the
programme for her to meet businessmen, e.g. at the lunch.
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