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INFORMATION NOTE FOR CHINA/HONG KONG WORKING GROUP MEETING ON 30.1.80
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FORTHCOMING VISITS BY UK MINISTERS
The Foreign Secretary will visit China from 1-5 April having spent two days in Hong Kong. 2-3 days of the visit will be in Peking but the programme has yet to be finalised.
The Minister of State (Industry) will not now visit China but will confine the trip to Hong Kong (27-29 April) and Japan. Following the change of Ministers arrangements for the visit are provisional; they include a call on Sir Laurence Kadoorie and visit to the Castle Peak 'B' site, as well as discussions on Cable and Wireless with the Governor.
+HK 21-23 March
The Minister for Trade will be in China from 14-21 March.
The Embassy is trying to arrange for Mr Parkinson to call in Peking at the State Planning Commission (Yao Yilin) the Ministry of Foreign Trade, the State Energy Commission (Yu Qiuli) and the Ministry of Electric Power. (A call on Gu Mu at the State Import Export Commission may also be possible.) In Shanghai he will open and tour the SIMA exhibition and have talks with the Trading Authorities, Commercial Banks and the Planning Commission. then go to Canton for general trade talks with the provincial authorities. In Hong Kong he will meet senior businessmen including Norman Thompson of MTRC; he will give a resume of the Canton discussions to Sir Laurence Kadoorie and Sir Y.K. Kan.
II FORTHCOMING VISITS BY CHINESE MINISTERS
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A submission has been put to Ministers that Gu Mu should be invited to the UK for 2-3 days immediately after the Brussels Business Week. In view of Gu Mu's giving up the construction portfolio, it is proposed that the Secretary of State for Trade should host the visit.
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Donald Liao, Secretary for Housing in Hong Kong, will visit the UK from 16 - 18 February 1981. The purpose of the visit is to try to launch a period of greater participation by British companies in the Hong Kong Government's massive housing programme. If successful it would be followed up by a visit later in the year to Hong Kong by the Minister of State for Housing, John Stanley, MP.
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