Year
1973 cont
1974
Visitors to UK
Visitors to China
Aug-Sept. Rt Hon Mr Roy Jenkins, MP
Sept. Mr Peter Rees, MP. Sept-Oct. Sir Thomas Brimelow, PUS, FCO. Nov. Parliamentary delegation led by Dame Joan Vickers, MP.
Significant events
Resumption of student exchanges
13 June. Air Services
agreement initialled. July. Agreement on Chinese Cultural Exhibition. Sept. Chinese Cultural Exhibition in London.
Jan-Feb.
of Burma.
Lord Mountbatten
June. Mr Edward Heath, MP, leader of the opposition, met Chairman Mao. (Mr Heath was originally due to go to China as Prime Minister in January 1974; he has made regular visits to China since 1974.) Sept. Rt Hon Lord Beswick, Minister of State, Dept of Industry, leading a Post and Telecommunications
Delegation.
Oct.
Sir Frederic Bennett,
July. Opening of Great Britain-China Centre.
1975
SH1AAC
Nov. Zeng Sheng, Vice Minister of Communications for IMCO meeting.
MP.
March. Mr Eric Deakins, MP Parliamentary Under
Secretary for Trade.