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Year

Visitors to UK

Visitors to China

Significant events

1979 cont

1980

Nov. Jia Shi, Vice Minister of Foreign Trade.

June. Kang Shi'en, Vice- Premier.

Aug. He Jing, Vice-Premier Oct. Huang Hua, Vice- Premier and Foreign Minister.

March. Dr Gerald Vaughan MP, Minister of Health. March. Rt Hon Mr Francis Pym, MP, Secretary of State for Defence.

April. Mr N Fowler MP, Minister of Transport. April. Sir H Leech, Chief of the Naval Staff. April HRH The Duke of Gloucester.

May. Rt Hon Mr James Callaghan, MP leader of the Labour Party.

July. Admiral Sir Henry Leech, 1st Sea Lord and

Chief of Naval Staff.

July-Aug. Sir P Gadsden,

Lord Mayor of London.

Oct. Sir Charles Troughton Chairman of the British

Council.

Oct. Governor of Hong Kong visits Guangzhou.

Oct-Nov. Parliamentary delegation led by Sir W Clark, MP.

Sept. 1st British naval visit to China since 1949.

Nov. 1st scheduled air services Hong Kong-Peking since 1949.

Nov. British Airways inaugural flight London-Peking.

11 Nov. Memorandum of Under- standing on Co-operation in Agriculture Science and Technology.

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