TNAG-1457-FCO40-1981-Relations-between-Hong-Kong-and-China-1986 — Page 162

Year

Visitors to UK

1980

cont

1981

Feb. National People's

Visitors to China

Nov. Mr N Tebbitt, MP Parliamentary Under Secretary for Trade.

April. Lord Carrington,

Congress delegation led by Secretary of State for Hao Deqing.

July. Yang Dezhi, Chief of General Staff of PLA. Oct. Wang Daohan, Mayor of Shanghai.

Nov-Dec. Jiang Ming, Vice Minister of Science and Technology.

Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs.

April. Mr David Steel, MP. April. Conservative Parliamentary delegation led by Lord Rhodes. April. Mr G Pattie, MP Parliamentary under secretary for Defence, RAF. Oct. Sir Edwin Bramall, Chief of the General Staff. Dec. Mr P Rees, MP, Minister of Trade.

Significant events

10 March. Agreement on avoidance of Double Taxation in Air Transport business. Nov. PRC Visa Office opens in Hong Kong.

1982

SH1AAC

Oct. Lu Jiaxi, President of the Academy of Sciences.

Jan. Mr H Atkins, MP Lord Privy Seal.

Jan. Archbishop of

Canterbury.

March. Parliamentary

delegation led by Sir E

duCann and Mr Arthur

Bottomley.

Aug. Governor of Hong Kong to Guangzhou.

24 Sept. Agreement to begin talks on Hong Kong.