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Adviser between

served in Hong Kong as

Assistant Political Adviser

1978 and 1981 and was interested to be briefed on the latest

developments in Hong Kong.

Ann. E

Last Stop

30.

valium.

Guangzhou (6 7 November)

On Friday, 6 November, we flew to Guangzhou where

Deputy Director, and Xing

we were met by Lu

Lu Xiangdong,

Minghua, an interpretor.

Ministry of Public Health's introduction on Drug Policy &

Administration and also a similar historical analysis as in

the other two cities and an admission that there were some

morphine and pethidine addicts. Lu also conceded that there

may be some illegal diversion of benzodiazepines such as

We were given an interpretation service by Xing

Minghua who had an interesting background. He was currently

working in the Foreign Affairs Department of the Ministry of

Public Health for Dr. Jiang Zhong-zhou, Deputy Director of

Health Bureau of Guangdong Province. In the 1960's he had

been a Red Guard and had been despatched to the countryside

but since his return had become self-educated and is quite

fluent in English. He was the only person during our tour who

entered into any sort of political conversation, having stated

at the outset that he was not a Party Member but was more

interested in the Church.

Here we received an extract from the

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