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21.

In the evening we

were invited to a banquet at

which were present all those listed above, together with

officials from Customs and Public Health listed in paragraph

22. At the banquet, Li Chao-jin, Director of the Drug

Administration and Policy Bureau, M.P.H. warmly welcomed the

Hong Kong delegation and hoped that this first visit to China

by Hong Kong anti-drug officials was the harbinger of much

improved future cooperation.

during the meal

formalities softened and the evening was a pleasant one (as

was the return banquet which we hosted the following evening).

Later

Ann. C

22.

On Tuesday, 3 November, we met Li Maolong, Deputy

Department of Investigstion of China Customs. He

He

Director,

spoke off the cuff without notes. He asserted that Hong Kong

had the best working relationship with Chinese Customs with,

interestingly, Australia being the only other country

approaching the excellence of this working relationship.

himself used to work at Shenzhen. He was very happy with the

establishment in Hong Kong of the Drug Liaison Centre for Asia

and the Pacific Region made under the auspices of the Customs

Cooperation Council. We were then given a leaflet on "'China's

Customs Interdiction of Narcotics".

23.

Otherwise, Li's comments repeated those made by

Jiang and Zhou during the previous day. He listed the

successes of China Customs between 1981 and 1985 which were

then depicted in a video illustrating mainly action taken by

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