Year
Visitors to UK
Visitors to China
1971
cont
1972
Nov. Qiao Guanhua Vice Foreign Minister.
April. Mr Winston Churchill MP with Sino-British Trade Council delegation. May-June. Mr Anthony Royle MP, Parliamentary Under Secretary, FCO (1st ever
FCO Minister).
Sept. Parliamentary delegation led by Mr D Dodds-Parker, MP.
Oct. Lord Thomson of Fleet and Times group.
Oct. Mr Denis Healey, MP. Oct-Nov. Sir Alec Douglas- Home, Secretary of State for Foreign and Common- wealth Affairs.
Dec. Sir Desmond Plummer, leader of the GLC.
Significant events
be removed from discussion by UN Committee on Decolonisation
13 March. Agreement on Exchange of Ambassadors.
29 March. Mr John Addis, HM Ambassador presents credentials.
March. Closure of British Consulate Tamsui, Taiwan. 21 July. Song Zhiguang, Chinese Ambassador presents credentials.
Oct. The Times opens office in Peking.
1973
Jan. Bai Xingguo Minister of Foreign Trade.
June. Ji Pengfei, Foreign Minister.
March. Lord Mayor of Coventry.
March. Mr Peter Walker, MP, Secretary of State for Trade and Industry, and Mr Michael Heseltine, MP, Minister for Aerospace.
Jan.
Release of last three Britons detained in Cultural Revolution.
March. London Philharmonic Orchestra.
March-April. British
Industrial Technology
Exhibition in Peking
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