The Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office revealed that it plans to increase the amount it sends to India - a country with its own space programme - by a third.
Ambassador Liu Xiaoming and Madam Hu Pinghua Host Farewell Reception
（From Chinese Embassy in UK）
2021/01/26
On 25 January, Ambassador Liu Xiaoming and Madam Hu Pinghua held an online farewell reception, where Ambassador Liu delivered a speech entitled Serve with Sincerity All the Way Through. Madam Hu also made a few farewell remarks. Jenny Bates, Director General, Indo-Pacific at the Foreign, Commonwealth & Development Office, spoke on behalf of the British side.
Around 500 guests attended the event on-line, including Lord Udny-Lister, Prime Minister s Chief Strategic Adviser and Downing Street Chief of Staff, Lord Heseltine, former Deputy Prime Minister of the UK, David Lidington, former Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster, Jeremy Hunt, former Foreign Secretary, Sir Oliver Letwin, former Minister for Government Policy in the Cabinet Office, Mark Sedwill, former UK Cabinet Secretary and Head of the Civil Service and National Security Adviser, Stanley Johnson, former Membe