35 years ago on October 25, 1971, the People’s Republic of China replaced the Kuomintang government as representative of China at the United Nations. On that same day, Belgium and the PRC established diplomatic relations.
Since then China has been playing an increasingly important role on the international stage. Relations with Belgium overall developed smoothly. In the past 35 years no major incidents were recorded. During the first years following the establishment of diplomatic relations, not much happened. But after the formal end of the Cultural Revolution and the fall of the Gang of Four in October 1976, political, economic and cultural exchanges started to develop.
Dr.Paul Janssen and Chris Morel started negotiations to set up two flagship joint ventures, Xian Janssen and Shanghai Bell. In August 1978 I arrived in Beijing to study Chinese at the Beijing Language Institute. And the rest is history. But without the establishment of diplomatic relations on October 25, 1971 all this would not have been possible.
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