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The Vice-Premier of the Chinese State Council, Ding Xuexiang, was received Monday midday in Bern by Guy Parmelin and Ignazio Cassis. “This visit took place as Switzerland and the People’s Republic of China celebrate this year the 75th anniversary of their diplomatic relations,” writes the FDFA, recalling that it was in January 1950 that Federal Councilor Max Petitpierre sent a telegram to Mao Zedong, informing him that Switzerland was choosing Beijing as its diplomatic interlocutor, renouncing its official relations with Taiwan.