Year
Visitors to UK
1959
1960
1961
June. Academy of Sciences delegation.
Oct. Academy of Sciences delegation.
Visitors to China
Feb. Unofficial visit by Rt Hon Mr Peter Thorneycroft, MP.
June. Field Marshal Lord Montgomery.
Sept. Field Marshal Lord Montgomery
Oct. Sir Harold Caccia, PUS, Foreign Office
Significant events
Sept. Old British Embassy compound handed over to the Chinese.
Dec. Chinese buy 6 Viscount aeroplanes 1st such purchase outside USSR/East Europe. 15 Dec. UK votes for PRC to be seated at UN.
1962
1963
1964
SH1AAC
March-April. Lu Xuzhang Vice Minister of Foreign Trade.
Royal Society delegation Sept-Oct. Rt Hon Mr Malcolm Macdonald
May. Dr Hewlett Johnson, former Dean of Canterbury Nov. Mr Douglas Jay, President of the Board of Trade
Nov.
British Industrial Exhibition in Peking.
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