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important objectives we can work together even better in order to achieve them. We have already arrived at an excellent degree of understanding in many areas: over the principal problems faced by the international community, over Hong Kong, and over the degree to which we can assist one another in many practical ways. To me, your visit comes at a particularly auspicious time, and I look forward to exchanging views with you on the major issues: the Middle East, African problems, East-West relations and disarmament. But I hope that you will not keep such discussions for formal occasions such as visits. I hope that when we have views to exchange we can do so regularly` and informally through all the channels available to us. Finally, I would like to repeat my pleasure and that of my wife that we are able to welcome you to London. I hope you will enjoy your contacts with a very wide range of British people while you are in this country; and it goes without saying how much I look forward to coming to China myself in order to meet you again there and to learn something of your country's extraordinary achievements
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7. It gives me great pleasure to ask you all to rise and drink to the health of the Chinese Government and people under the leadership of Premier Hua Kuo-feng, to you Mr Foreign Minister and Mrs Huang Hua, and to the other members of your party; to the growth and deepening of contact between Britain and China, and to the prosperity and well-being of the Chinese people.
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