FROM:
The Lord Kadoorie, CBE, JP
St. George's Building Đồng Kông
The Rt. Hon. Margaret Thatcher, MP
Prime Minister
10 Downing Street
London SW1
ENGLAND
February 13, 1985
148
:
Dear Prime Minister;
This letter is written to convey best wishes and to tell you something about our recent visit to Beijing in connection with the signing of the Joint Venture Agreement to build China's first large Nuclear Power Station at Daya Bay, some 50 Kms. from Hong Kong.
Thinking it might be of interest I enclose copies of the record of our interviews with Premier Zhao Zhi Yang and Chairman Deng Xiaoping.
It was pleasing that during these interviews they reiterated the importance they both attached to this Joint Venture, emphasising that it was by far the largest and most important project yet signed with any Western power.
Chairman Deng particularly appreciated our knowledge of Chinese thinking, saying that we were willing to take the risk when others would not.
He was emphatic in stating that socialism in China was here to stay and China would not revert to capitalism since this would be to recognize the failure of socialism. This, however, did not mean that socialism could not learn from capitalism, but he recognized this would take time consequently the twelve years followed by fifty years, negotiated over Hong Kong.
After that the threads would be so closely knit, and the cloth so tightly woven, that they could not be separated and future policy would be firmly established.
Six years of patience and concentrated effort have at least succeeded in creating an atmosphere of cooperation which, with further effort, offers British Industry an opportunity to regain the premier place it once occupied in pre-war China.
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