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Habib:

If there is something to go on with, we can go on today or tomorrow, as you wish.

Lin:	Maybe Mr. Habib will take the lead to let us know what suggestions or considerations you might have, including the following two aspects: namely, the cultural exchanges between our two sides and the question of claims to private properties and assets.

Habib:

I will lead on the first one at this time. As I understand it, the preliminary exchanges with the Committee on Scholarly Communications and the National Committee on U.S.-China Relations have provided a list of proposed exchanges for 1975. In respect to the proposals that were made by the Chinese, the Chinese negotiators have suggested that in general, you want to maintain facilitated exchanges on the same quantitative and qualitative level. Is that correct?

Lin:

Yes.

Habib:

In the response received from the Chinese on the particular proposals, there have been, in terms of American groups coming to China under the auspices of the Committee on Scholarly Communications, 5 projects. I believe they are known to you and I won't list them unless you wish me to. So we will consider that as part of the record. With regard to the Chinese groups going to the United States, there were 7 groups proposed. In its response the Committee on Scholarly Communications accepted all the proposals for the American groups going to China, in accordance with your wishes, and has suggested that there be numerical reciprocity. That is, you should add two more American groups from the original proposals that were made to you. For the Chinese groups going to the United States there was a request for clarification with regard to some of them to determine whether the delegations would be scientifically or commercially oriented. That was so the commercially oriented could be handled through other channels. The three groups were petrochemicals, communications techniques, and industrial automation.