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NOTES OF MEETING HELD TO DISCUSS GUANGDONG NUCLEAR PROJECT AT ASHDOWN HOUSE ON 28 JULY 1981

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Present: Mr A G Manzie

Mr O Plail

Mr M Roberts

Mr H Davies

Mr A Fryer

Mr R Ranscom

Mr A J Havelock

Mr R A Brown

Mr N R Brice

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Mr Manzie invited Mr Brown, who had just returned from Hong Kong,

to report on the meetings that he had held whilst there.

Mr Brown said that Mr Thomson had met Lu Ying who said that the

State Council was sympathetic to the project but had not reached

any final conclusions. The Chinese had no preference as between

Westinghouse or Framatome, and it was also suggested that an

official British visit would he premature at the moment.

Mr Brown then referred to a meeting between Mr Stones, Nai Ling,

Mr Thomson and himself at which Nai Ling reported on a visit he

had made to Cheng Gang following the latters' return from Peking.

A report of that conversation was to be circulated, bur Mr Brown

said that his impressions were that the Chinese commitment to

the project was increasingly real, as evidenced by the consider-

able amount of effort that had been put into the consideration of

the Feasibility Study, and the detailed questions that were

beginning to emerge. Chen Gang had been quite open about the

criticisms of the report made by Peking. Mr Brown thought that

equity should be viewed as a symbol of commitment and noted that

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if/offer performance guarantees, the Chinese would be less

Mr Brown