Encyclopedia of India–China Cultural Contacts v2.c17.s1.111

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• China's Lu Xun experts, Wang Shijing, Wu Xiaoling, and Bengali literature translator, Shi Zhen visited India.
• February-March, Wuhan Acrobatic Troupe led by Xia Juhua performed in New Delhi, Jaipur, Hyderabad and Calcutta. The troupe also met Prime Minister Indira Gandhi.
• April, Chinese gymnastics' delegation visited India. In November, Indian junior lawn tennis team visited China. This was the first time in more than 20 years that the sportsmen from the two countries paid mutual special visits to each others countries.
• May, India organised a week-long Chinese painting exhibition.
• June, Premier of the State Council of the PRC and Foreign Minister, Huang Hua visited India.
• November, China participated in the Second International Children's Film Festival of India. Chinese feature film *Miao miao* (The Young Teacher) won the Best Children's Film Award.
• November-December, Shanghai's men's volleyball team visited India.
• December, a Chinese delegation of practitioners of traditional Chinese medicine led by Vice President of the China Academy of Traditional Chinese Medicine, Tang Youzhi and Head of the Guang'anmen Hospital of the China Academy of Traditional Chinese Medicine, Shi Xiuzhang visited six cities of India. At the end of the month, the Chinese delegation watched the documentary “Cataract Removal by Acupuncture Needle”, brought from China, along with more than 100 practitioners of traditional Indian medicine at the Institute of Traditional Indian Medicine, Banaras.