TNAG-0839-FCO40-1048-Relations-between-Hong-Kong-and-China-1979 — Page 52

483

RESTRICHED

Hack 000/!

-

TRU. 51

4 JUL 1979

RESTRICTED

FM PEKING 030635Z JUL 79

TO PRIORITY FCO

PA

PA

TELEGRAM NUMBER 606 OF 3 JULY 79

Relations with

China

INFO GOVERNOR HONG KONG, WASHINGTON, MOSCOW AND TOKYO INFO SAVING TO ULAN BATOR, SINGAPORE, RANGOON, ISLAMABAD AND NEW DEHLI.

NATIONAL PEOPLE'S CONGRESS: APPOINTMENTS

THE NATIONAL PEOPLE'S CONGRESS (NPC) CLOSED ''VICTORIOUSLY??

ON 1 JULY. IT APPROVED REPORTS ON THE WORK OF THE GOVERNMENT (MY TELNOS 583-6), THE ECONOMY (MỲ TELNO 598) AND LEGAL MATTERS (MY TELNO 603). THE TEXTS OF SEVEN DRAFT LAWS (MY TELMO 603)

WERE ADOPTED.

2. THE LAST TASK OF THE CONGRESS WAS TO MAKE THE FOLLOWING

APPOINTMENTS:

(A) VICE PREMIERS

CHEN YUN

EO YIBO

YAO YILÏN

(B) VICE CHAIRMEN OF THE STANDING COMMITTEE OF THE MPC

PENG ZHEN

XIAO JINGGUANG

ZHU YUNSHAN

SHI LIANG

(C) PRESIDENT OF THE CHINESE ACADEMY OF SCIENCES

FANG YI

ALL THREE VICE-PREMIERS ARE EXPERIENCED ECONOMIC AND

FINANCIAL ADMINISTRATORS. CHEN AND GO BOTH SERVED AS VICE- PREMIERS DURING THE 1950S, WHEN THEY PLAYED A VITAL ROLE IN CHINA'S ECONOMIC REHABILITATION, AND UNTIL THE CULTURAL REVOLUTION IN 1966. YAO, A YOUNGER CASUALTY OF THE CULTURAL REVOLUTION, WAS MINISTER OF COMMERCE UNTIL HIS TRANSFER AT THE END OF 1978 TO THE KEY POST OF DEPUTY SECRETARY-GENERAL

OF THE CENTRAL COMMITTEE. ALL THREE ARE ALIGNED WITH

DENG XIAOPING.

RESTRICHED

/4. OF THE