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Thank you for your letter of 8 May about the visit to Peking in December of a delegation from the Hong Kong Trade Development Council.

As I said in Peking Telegram No 489, I should welcome a visit by you to Peking. Grania and I assume that you would like to stay with the Delegation in the Diaoyutai. If, however, you would prefer the air at the east end of Peking to that in the West, please let me know.

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On calls to be made by the delegation as a whole, I assume that you would like the programme-making to be done by W H Wong (with whom we shall get in touch). think it would be a good idea for the delegation to aim for calls on a Vice-Premier and the Mayor of Peking. If a call on a Vice-Premier could be arranged (and I see no reason why it should not), I think that Tian Jiyun is the Vice-Premier most likely to receive the delegation. Chen Xitong is the Mayor of Peking. I know him quite well. I have always found him both affable and articulate.

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I am not quite clear whether you have in mind calls by the whole delegation on Ji Pengfei, Zhou Nan and Lu Ping. Such calls would certainly be more valuable from your point of view if they could be made by you with only me and one or two others from the Embassy in support. But that may not be possible in terms of your relationship with the delegation. I should be grateful for guidance in due course about what you have in mind over this.

I am sorry that you and the delegation are likely to meet Jia Shi on no fewer than three occasions. It is not easy to get him away from platitudes at either meetings or dinner parties. Zheng Tuobin can be better value.

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