Reportage. In Beijing, the city is preparing to host the 60th anniversary of the founding of the People’s Republic by Mao Tse Tung. Visit of a Miitaire base where soldiers have been training for 6 months for the military parade. The volunteers of the neighborhood committees are very present in the streets of the city to monitor the population and report any suspicious behavior to the authorities. Comment on factual images.
Mr Malraux, Minister of State for Cultural Affairs, is back in France after a trip to Asia, officially in a private capacity; in reality, charged with a message from President De Gaulle. He took stock of the international situation with Chairman Mao Tse Tung and met with Chinese leaders.
In China, in Beijing, the 18th Congress of the Chinese Communist Party, gathered in the People’s Palace, Tiananmen Square, elected its new Secretary General, XI Jinping, who replaces President HU Jintao, who gave his farewell speech, at the opening of the Congress, in which he talks about corruption within the Chinese Communist Party. Comment on factual images alternating with an excerpt from the speech of HU Jintao, General Secretary of the Chinese Communist Party, and the interview of Gap YUSHENG, retired professor, member of the CCP.
The People’s Republic of China celebrated the 25th anniversary of its founding yesterday. On this occasion, Mr GISCARD D'ESTAING stressed the importance he attaches to the bonds of friendship between France and China by going to the reception offered by Ambassador TSENG TAO. He is interviewed at the embassy about his presence at this event.
62 Chinese students, who came to study in Rennes in November 1964, are preparing to return to the People’s Republic of China. The student quotes Chairman Mao Tse Tung from the "Little Red Book" and talks about his "ardent desire" to participate in the cultural revolution that explains their return home.
At his press conference at the Elysée on January 31, 1964, General DE GAULLE announced that France had decided "to place its relations with the People’s Republic of China on a normal, in other words diplomatic level". He recalls that "France was prepared for years to establish regular relations with Beijing" and that "Some economic and cultural exchanges were already practiced".
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