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U.K. Relations With China

Question:

Minister:

Could 1 ask you if you think it would be desirable for long Kong, through the British Government to approach the People's Republic of China about the possibility of co- operation in the construction of the mass transit railway system?

I recognise its importance.

I am

I would have to take that very important question under advice. I do not wish to make any kind of response to that off-the-cuff.

grateful to you for raising it. But it is not what I could give you anything like a definitive answer to now. between United Kingdom and China are very good indeed and we anticipate that they will continue to be very good and indeed go on improving.

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