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From: P J Westmacott
Date: 21 March 1986
cc: Private Secretary
PS/Mr Raison Sir W Harding
Dr Wilson
Mr Orr, FED
SIR Y K PAO
1. Mr Renton was most grateful for the briefing you kindly provided for his lunch with Sir Y K on 20 March.
2. On his scholarship fund, Sir Y K said that the Chinese government had agreed to fund their share of the scheme in the same manner as HMG, ie through annual payments. He was hoping that it would provide scholarships from the beginning of the 1987 academic year. Sir Y K made clear that he hankered after naming the scheme "The 1997 Trust", or something similar. On a slightly separate theme, he was also keen to enlist the support of the British Council for the provision of English teachers for his home town in China.
3. On constitutional development, Sir Y K spoke on familiar lines about the need to make haste slowly. He believed it would be essential to have a strong British Governor right up to 1997.
4.
There was some discussion of Chinese economic prospects. Sir Y K described the new Five Year Plan as very conservative, but liable to encourage investment in key industrial sectors. He thought there was a good chance that the major new steel mill project would go ahead, and that British companies/banks would be well-placed to bid, since the Japanese had made such a mess of the Shanghai steelworks.
5. Sir Y K pushed hard for information about the May visit of Xiu Jia-Tun, and the official visit of Hu Yao-Bang. Mr Renton was unforthcoming. Asked about Hu Yao-Bang's particular interests, Sir Y K said he was facinated by calligraphy.
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