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Includes: Introduction: The National People’s Congress, Liu Shao-Chi replaces Mao Tse-Tung as Chairman, lessons of the Great Leap and the establishment of communes, the problem of Tibet and the Dalai Llama. Foreign Trade, no mention at the Congress, The Economic Plan for 1959, planned expenditure of capital construction and Transport, statistics of 1958 output and 1959 targets. The Budget. UK -China Trade. Developments in the China Situation, reduced interest in trade with the UK but some developments reported. China and Freight Charters, COMECON proposing a direct service to China. Chinese Visitors to the UK Swedish Delegation to Peking [Beijing]. Trade with West Germany. Purchases of Synthetic Rubber. Production Targets. New Chemical Works. China-Japan Trade, still no direct trade. Hong Kong Trade with the UK and total trade. Notifications to Owners of Property in Shanghai. Property Stored in the Peking [Beijing] Embassy.
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