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Cultural Group Under State Council And Chinese People's Association For Friendship With Foreign Countries Give Grand National Day Reception For Foreign Friends. The Cultural Group Under the State Council and the Chinese People's Association for Friendship with Foreign Countries gave a grand reception in the Great hall of the People in Peking on the evening of Oct.1 warmly celebrating the 22nd anniversary of the founding of the People's Republic of China and entertaining friends and well known personages of friendly organizations and cultural, art, physical cultural, and other circles of various countries. Present at the reception were: Chou En-lai, Member of the Standing Committee of the Political Bureau of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of China and Premier of the state Council; Chiang Ching and Chang Chun-chiao, Members of the Political Bureau of the C.P.C. Central Committee; and Kuo Mo-jo, Member of the C. P.C. Central Committee and Vice- Chairman of the Standing Committee of the Nat ional People's Congress. The reception was presided over by Wu Teh, Head of the Cultural Group Under the State Council, and Wang Kuo-chuan, leading member of the Chinese People's Association for Friendship with Foreign Countries. Photo shows the guests and hosts stepping into the reception hall.