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27. On culture, Premier Zhao thanked the Prime Minister for increasing the number of scholarships for Chinese students in Britain. He hoped that this trend would continue. The Prime Minister agreed that this was a very good scheme and that it was working well. She remarked on the success of the British Council's language training schemes in Peking and mentioned that she was pleased with the sale of a number of good BBC TV programmes to China.