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S There is also a practical side to our admiration.

We believe that we have an important contribution to

make to your plans. This country can draw on rich

resources of technology and expertise in all areas.

have the ability and the will to turn these. to China's

benefit as well as to our own.. We know that you aim to

transform your industry, your agriculture, your science

and technology, and potential for national defence.

Britain is already co-operating with China in these areas,

and I believe there is ample scope for further co-operation

in all of them. f We see this as a natural consequence

of a growing relationship of mutual benefit. i But we

also believe that what you are seeking to do for China

is of interest to the whole world. We believe that a

prosperous and secure China will help to make the world

a more prosperous and safer place in which we can all

contribute to the well being of our own peoples and those

of other lands. Closer relations and exchanges of more

and, more substance will be for mutual benefit and should be

seen as such; they are not directed against anyone else

nor do they threaten anyone else.

I have already talked about the intensified exchanges

of the past year. We see, your visit as marking a

further stage in the intimacy of our contacts, and we

look forward to the visit here of Vice Premier Wang Chen

and in due course of Premier Hua himself.

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