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March 20, 2001

On March 20, Vice-Premier Qian Qichen, who was on a visit to New York, attended the luncheon hosted by Asia Society in association with China Institute, Committee of 100 and the National Committee on American Foreign Policy and delivered a speech, China and Asia in the New Century, and took the questions from the audience. The luncheon was presided over by Nicholas Platt, president of Asia Society, and attended by nearly 300 people from all walks of life in the United States. The full text is as follows:

October 10, 2000

This was enacted to authorize extension of nondiscriminatory treatment (normal trade relations treatment) to the People's Republic of China, and to establish a framework for relations between the United States and the People's Republic of China.

September 20, 2000

U.S. Senate extends permanent normal trade relations to China

August 22, 2000

Citizens of China may freely choose and express their religious beliefs and make clear their religious affiliations, which has been written expressly in the Chinese Constitution.

June 22, 2000

Annual report on the military power of the people's republic of China

May 18, 2000

President Bill Clinton and Federal Reserve Chairman Alan Greenspan talked about the permanent normal trading relationship with China.

April 24, 2000

Articles One through Eleven were adopted by the fifth session of the Third National Assembly on 24 April 2000 in a Sixth Revision of the Constitution, and promulgated by the president on 25 April 2000. These Articles replaced the Eleven Additional Articles adopted in the 1997 Fourth Revision, which had remained in effect after the Council of Grand Justices declared the articles adopted by the Fifth Revision of 1999 void.

March 8, 2000

President Clinton made his remarks at the Paul H. Nitze School of Advanced International Studies.

January 1, 2000
White Paper on Population in China

The Information Office of the State Council Tuesday published a white paper titled “China's Population and Development in the 21st Century." Following is the full text of the white paper:

Preface

I. Current Situation and Prospect

II. Targets and Principles

III. Plan of Action

IV. Guarantee Measures

Preface

November 30, 1999

The Republic of China's (Taiwan's) Democratic Progressive Party's white paper on China Policy from 1999.

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