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hundred extra Chinese students to Britain a year, on top

of 1200 now studying in British universities and colleges

already unprecedented number. Scheme not only meets

specific objective of both governments. Also highlights

important general themes in our flourishing relationship.

on which seal will be set by HM The Queen's State Visit

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to China this October.

Scheme, like relationship, is:

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Forward looking, because majority of scholarship

will be in science and technology. Will help us to

collaborate in meeting great technological challeng

now facing us all;

Forward looking too because scholars will help

next generation to build on friendships and co-

operation we have established.

Scheme also shows we are:

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Confident and committed to making most of

opportunities for collaboration..

Making our

efforts not just now, but investing heavily in

future.

Also inventive. Both have deeply held

principles. But willing to put them to work in

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creative, if necessary unusual, approaches to

practical objectives.

Scheme is first time we

have pooled efforts with another government in

this way.

Another example of these qualities:

Agreement on Hong Kong. Continued stability

and prosperity of Hong Kong such vital

Baklystad We and

commitment

you are displaying

HK has to be

covered in this peech,

without

assuming a disproportionate role. I am happy for the subject to be introduced in this way, but think M. Ashton's draft has 2 defects:

(is it is too briaf

Liis it makes too much

of YK Pao, which is

wel [toptoying qualities quite unjustified

for both our governments. Fitting that Hong Kong Where

I have_just_mentioned in ] working together to implement our Joint Declaration Delighted I have attempted

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people this instance Sir V K, should bring-us

it

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redraft / expansion. I

that process is going smoothly. Fully confident that it will continue to do so. Important that don't think we need

together in other ways too.

up

to and

we should remain in close contact I boyand 1997 in JEG and elsewhere. That is

what people of His want and expect. Not really surprising that these qualities govern

our relationship. Also apply to own domestic policies.

on HK

go any further for this speech.

* Believe we contime to display political imagination

in this

this process &

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Both understand that we are now facing new industrial

revolution. Need to harness forces of change, not be

buffeted by them. Separated by our different historical

and economic circumstances; but brought together by equal

commitment to thorough modernization of complex and

excessively rigid economies. And both made impressive

progress.

Your first visit here. Want you to leave on

Thursday with impression of Britain as society on the

move; society exchanging divisions and waste of yesterday

for enterprise and technology of tomorrow. Always been

good at winning Nobel Prizes; now turning pioneering

ideas into prosperity.4 Building a society that, like our

relations is forward looking, inventive and confident.

FED/RD(FE): to provide an example of British

inventiveness with Chinese connotations producing wealth/prosperity.