SOVIET DISPLAY IN PEKING

Press, Volume XC, Issue 27471, 4 October 1954, Page 11

SOVIET DISPLAY IN PEKING

Top Communists Attend

(Rec. 10 p.m.) HONG KONG, Oct. 2, Mr Chou En-lai, Communist China’s Prime Minister and Foreign Minister, this afternoon opened the Soviet Economic and Cultural Construction Exhibition in Peking after an inaugural meeting presided over by Mr Chi Chao-ting, secretary-general of the Committee for Promotion of Foreign Trade, Peking Radio announced.

The broadcast said about 6000 people attended the exhibition, which displayed about 1000 agricultural and industrial products. The radio said those present included Mr Liu Shao-chi t chairman of the standing committee of the National People’s Congress; Mr Li Chi-sen, the vice-chairman of the standing committee; General Peng-Teh-huai, the Defence Minister; the Vice-Premier, Mr Chen Yun, and Mr Peng Chen, the Mayor of Peking. Mr Nikita Khrushchev, the Soviet Communist Party first secretary and head of the Soviet Government delegation to China, together with Marshal Nikolai Bulganin, the Minister of Defence, Mr Mikol Hvernik, the head of Russia’s trade unions, Mr Pavel Yudin, the Soviet Ambassador to China, and other Russian officials were also present. Marshal Kim II Sung, the North Korean Prime Minister, and other members of the North Korean Government delegation were also present, the radio said.

Mr Yeh Chi Chuang, the Chinese Minister of Foreign Trade, in a speech said Russia had been rendering “generous assistance’’ to China since the founding of the Communist regime, and pledged that the Chinese would “learn zealously Soviet experience in technology and emulate Soviet spirit in construction to fulfil the historic task of China’s economic construction.”