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Since I became Foreign and Commonwealth Secretary last
year, I have taken a close interest in developments in 4 China.
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It is important for Britain, and for the world in general, that China should be a stable, prosperous, strong and active member of the international community. I have therefore been much encouraged and impressed by the rapid growth which your economy is currently enjoying. I
welcome the steady evolution of your open door policy 10 towards trade and exchanges with your friends overseas
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sure that this will be a vital element in China's further
development. Britain and China have much to gain from trade and industrial cooperation. Greater understanding
and friendship should flow from the development of
exchanges in many spheres of activity, particularly
between our younger generations. Internationally,
regular consultation between us
on world issues is an
influence for stability and world peace in a world which
remains turbulent and beset by crises.
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and the pragmatic approach which you have adopted.
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Happily, exchanges between us are now at
unprecedented level. Since Prime Minister Margaret
Thatcher came here in 1982, there have been visits to
China by the British Secretaries of State for Industry
and Energy and the Minister for Trade: the Minister for
the Armed Forces will be coming here next week. At the
same time, the Chinese Ministers of Foreign Economic Relations and Trade, Public Health, Metallurgical Industries, and Petroleum have been to Britain, and your
Minister for Coal is there now.
These and other exchanges have created the conditions 32 for growing cooperation in many fields. The British
Government is committed to doing all it can to build on
the firm foundations we have now laid. British technology
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