The restoration of diplomatic relations between China and France announced last January included an exchange of ambassadors; General HUANG CHEN, China’s first ambassador to France, arrived at the Elysée this morning to present his credentials to General de GAULLE.
Official visit of the Secretary General of the Chinese Communist Party, HU Yaobang, in France where he was received by President MITTERRAND at the Elysée, and at the City Hall this morning by Jacques CHIRAC.
Silent report on the reception at the Elysée of the Deputy Prime Minister of the People’s Republic of China DENG XIAOPING, by President Valéry GISCARD D'ESTAING.
French President François MITTERRAND arrived on an official visit to the People’s Republic of China. He was welcomed by Chinese Prime Minister ZHAO ZIYANG before reviewing the troops.
The French President Georges POMPIDOU, First Chief on an official trip to the People’s Republic of China, was invited to an official dinner organized by the Chinese Prime Minister Chou EN LAI at the National People’s Assembly according to a very settled protocol. He gave a speech paying tribute to the commonalities between the French and Chinese nations: their long history, the defense of their independence, their political and social revolutions, their mutual esteem for almost ten years after the recognition by General de Gaulle of the People’s Republic of China and Mao ZEDONG.
The Chinese people and its leaders gave an exceptional welcome to Georges POMPIDOU, the first President of the French Republic and the first Western Head of State to be officially received in China. In his residence in Beijing, Georges POMPIDOU met with CHOU EN LAI and TUNG PI WU, President of the Chinese Republic by interim before a dinner at the National People’s Assembly. Speeches were given by Chou En Lai and Georges Pompidou on the points that unite the two countries, the history of this meeting and the future of Franco-Chinese relations.
On a trip to China, French President François MITTERRAND met the President of the Chinese People’s Political Consultative Conference Deng Xiao Ping with whom he had lunch, In press conference of François MITTERRAND declares that China will use French nuclear techniques and French TV equipment
Visiting Paris the Chinese Prime Minister HUA GUOFENG was received at the Elysée by Valéry GISCARD D'ESTAING. Mr HUA GUOFENG then attended rue Godefroy in the 13th arrondissement, the ceremony of inauguration of a commemorative plaque on the house where CHOU EN LAI lived, and where probably the Chinese PC was born in 1924.
Official trip of President Valéry Giscard d'Estaing to the People’s Republic of China. He met Deng Xiaoping, the Chinese leader. In a statement, Valéry GISCARD D'ESTAING insists on the delicacy and benevolence of the Chinese people. He is optimistic about the future of the human species.
Continuation of the official trip of Valéry GISCARD D'ESTAING in China. He went to XIAN, on the site of the tumulus where is buried the emperor Chi CHIN (3rd century BC). He was able to meet the peasants in the Chinese countryside, visit the fabulous archaeological site and thus see the underground army of clay soldiers that is being updated.
French President François HOLLANDE began his official trip to the People’s Republic of China by visiting a water reprocessing plant in comapgny of Laurent FABIUS and Ségolène ROYAL in order to obtain a better environmental policy from the Chinese shortly before the start of COP 21 in Paris. Alternating factual images, an interview and statement by François HOLLANDE, a statement by Chinese President Xi JINPING.
The Ambassador of the People’s Republic of China arrived in Paris a few days ago and was interviewed for the first time, in his garden in Neuilly and then in his office, on Sino-French relations. The ambassador does not yet speak French, he evokes the history of France and China and the traditional friendship that exists for a long time between the two peoples, he is very happy to arrive in Paris as the First Ambassador of the People’s Republic of China to France
For the first time, a member of the government of the People’s Republic of China, the Chinese Foreign Minister, Mr JI PENGFEI is on an official trip to France. Accompanied by his wife, he arrived in Orly where he was greeted with flowers in the pavilion of honor, usually reserved for heads of state and government. It was his French counterpart Michel JOBERT who welcomed him. JI PENGFEI gave a brief speech on the development of relations between China and France.
In an interview, Lucien PAYE, appointed by General de Gaulle, France’s first ambassador to the People’s Republic of China expresses its pride in representing the French government in a country of more than 700 million inhabitants that cannot be ignored and whose destiny is essential to the whole world. He is very aware of the responsibility of this mission in a country with such a prestigious past and which works with "ardour, dynamism and discipline to forge its future and to make its destiny". It will therefore try to strengthen Franco-Chinese relations from a political, economic and cultural point of view.
On a trip to the People’s Republic of China, French Prime Minister Raymond BARRE visited the Great Wall of China where he expressed his satisfaction with his trip to China.
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.
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".
Report on the visit of Chinese President XI Jinping to France inaugurated with a ceremony at the Hôtel des Invalides. Fifty commercial contracts were signed, including the purchase of 70 Airbus by China. The Chinese president then went to Lyon to taste the French charcuterie now allowed to be exported to China. Statements by François HOLLANDE, President of the French Republic, and XI Jinping, President of the Republic of China.
Report of the visit of Jean-Pierre RAFFARIN to China: commentary on images of the official welcome (review of the troops with Wen Jiabao, handshakes to the Chinese ministers), interview of the Prime Minister on the SARS epidemic and the support given to China, finally evocation with images illustrating the signatures of industrial contracts in particular with Airbus and Alsthom.
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