mug said 1 wish express keen for the honour you have extende to ins and to my colleagues and the opportunity meeting you in this delightful atmiesphere, As the Minister of Industry, Commerce and Labour, particularly glad to meet you to-night, because you represent the British commercial and industrial Intevests in China. Great Britai is essentially a commercial nation. Statistics show that she ranks first in it's foreign trade. Your merchants have been conducting com operations in " China for a considerable length of time, with the result that trade with this country has developed to.sueit extent that China ix now considered the foremost among the fields where your foreign commerce carried, on, This important development the commercial relations between the two countries may be attributed to China's immense territory, her inexhaustible revourees and' her mous population. We have in store within our territorial domain almost all the raw materials which you nee for manufacturing pure nid at the same time we also one of the greatest markets in the world with the most remarkable potentialities
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