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From what I have heard these could be mutually

profitable.

I do not foresee any official difficulties, but

if any occur they can be solved through the excellent

liaison that now exists.

I have heard with interest and gratitude your engineers' plans to solve Hong Kong's water problem. I welcome the new supply of electricity from Hong Kong to Guangzhou.

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Finally we are all delighted that our tour should have both started and finished at Guangzhou, sister city of the Pearl River. It is particularly

satisfactory that a tour concerned with the promotion of goodwill and co-operation should end with the inauguration of the through train. This train is symbolic of the close

economic and human contacts that are so much to our mutual

benefit.

Toasts

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GAN BET.

To the health of Chairman Xi

To the health of Chairman Yang

To the health of Vice Chairman Liu

To the health of Vice Chairman Liang

To the health of Vice Chairman Tseng

To the health of Vice Chairman Lo

To the health of all our other friends here tonight

To the continuing development of the existing

excellent relations between Britain and China, including those between Hong Kong and Guangzhou.

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