Dear Charles,
FED 28
CONFIDENTIAL
Foreign and Commonwealth Office
London SW1A 2AH
21 May 1986
C
Visit of General Secretary of the Communist Party
of China, Hu Yaobang, 8-12 June 1986
Following a visit by a Chinese reconnaissance team, the main elements of the forthcoming visit by the General Secretary of the Communist Party have now been agreed with the Chinese. I attach a copy of the outline programme showing the main events. Mr Hu Yaobang will be accompanied by a large delegation including Vice Premier Li Peng; the distinguished social scientist Fei Xiaotong (who studied at LSE); the Vice Minister of Foreign Affairs, Zhou Nan, who has special responsibility for Western Europe and therefore also for Hong Kong. After their stay in Britain Mr Hu and his party will go to the FRG, France and Italy.
Programme
The programme does not have as much commercial and
The technological content as ideally we should have liked. main reason for this is that Mr Hu is personally very keen on Shakespeare, and especially wanted to go to Stratford. We have however managed to combine this visit with a programme in Oxford, taking in the University's Department of Metallurgy and Materials Sciences, Oxford University Press, and also Oxford Instruments (whose Chairman is the CBI's Young Businessman of the Year). Mr Luce will accompany Mr Hu throughout the day's programme. Mr Hu was also very keen to visit the Tower of London and go down the Thames. We intend to use this opportunity to demonstrate to him imaginative programmes for urban renewal. In addition Li Peng will meet businessmen under the auspices of the Sino-British Trade Council, and Hu Yaobang will give a talk on China's basic international and domestic policies at Chatham House and answer questions.
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