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March cont

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25 March 8 April

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Vice-Premier Li Peng visits Moscow to attend funeral of President Chernenko;

Chen Muhua becomes President of People's Bank and is replaced by Zheng Tuobin as Minister of Foreign Economic Relations and Trade;

3rd session of 6th National

Committee of Chinese People's

Political Consultative Conference

(CPPCC);

Visit by President of Sierra Leone, Siaka Stevens;

3rd session of 6th National People's Congress opens.

April

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Visit by Italian Defence Minister, Giovanni Spadolini;

Vice Foreign Minister Qian Qichen attends 6th round of Sino-Soviet normalisation talks in Moscow;

National People's Congress ratifies Sino-British Declaration on Hong

Kong;

Visit by French Minister of Industrial Deployment and Foreign Trade, Mme Edith Cresson;

Party Secretary-General Hu Yaobang visits Australia, New Zealand, Western Samoa, Fiji and Papua New Guinea;

Visit by Foreign Minister of

Argentina, Mr Dante Caputo;

Visit by the Rt Hon Edward Heath,

MBE, MP, at invitation of

People's Institute of Foreign Affairs;

Visit by Prime Minister of Belgium, Mr Wilfried Martens;

Foreign Minister Wu Xueqian visits the Philippines and Indonesia;

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