On March 25,1997, US
Vice- President Albert Gore chatted with the students of the middle school
affiliated to the Capital Normal University during his visit to the school.
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Clinton and his wife
and daughter toured the Great Wall on June 28,1998. Clinton said repeatedly
in admiration: "Wonderful, magnificent! The Great Wall runs up and
down steeply. It is much more magnificent than I can imagine!"
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On April 12,1998, Wu
Yi met with US Trade Representative Barshevsky at Zhongnanhai in Beijing.
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At
the invitation of US President Clinton, Chinese Premier Zhu Rongji paid a
formal visit to the United States on April 6-14, 1999. The picture shows Zhu
and Clinton at the welcoming ceremony on April 8.
Before
and during Zhu's visit to the United States, China and the United States
signed the Agreement of Agricultural Co-operation, the Memorandum of
Understanding on Residential Cooperation, the Protocol of the Agreement on
Civil Aviation Transport, the Agreement on Customs Cooperation and the
Memorandum on China's Export of Ceramics to the United States. In answering
to questions put forward by journalists during his visit to the United
States, Zhu Rongji said: "The United States has a lot of nuclear
weapons while China has very few nuclear weapons. China can not at all
constitute a threat to the United States. China is the biggest potential
market for the United States and not a threat to it. Therefore, the 'theory
of China threat ' should be changed into the 'theory of opportunity in
China'.
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In September 2000, the
Information Office of the State Council and the Ministry of Culture
sponsored a large cultural activity called Chinese Culture's Tour to the
United States in New York and some other American cities. This was the
largest project of cultural exchanges organized by the Chinese Government.
Both the Chinese and the US Government attached high importance to this
activity. The picture shows Zhao Qizheng ,head of the Information Office of
the State Council, and Sun Jiazheng, Minister of Culture, having a talk with
Mr Rupert Murdoch, Chairman and CEO of the News Corporation at the New York
Exhibition Hall.
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The
International Special Olympics Delegation came to China to attend the
ceremony to launch the Century Tour of Chinese Special Olympics. The picture
shows US movie star Schwarsinger shaking hands and having a talk with
students of the Peizhi School in Xicheng District of Beijing.
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