I am pleased to extend warm greetings to every. One participating in Miconex'88. The exhibits of more than 30 US manufacturers offer an opportunity to representatives of the People's Republic of China to observe American products and technology of high quality, to exchange information, and to establish commercial contacts. We are proud to demonstrate to you the skill, craftsmanship, and ingenuity achieved by leading American producers of scientific and analytical instrumentation.

I believe Miconex'88 will expand the channels of commerce between the United States and the People's Republic of China and contribute to the growth of bilateral trade The goodwill generated here will have a positive influence on both countres I extend my best wisher to all

I wish MICNEX'88 every success. The general theme of the Conference and Exhibition: “Instrumentation in the Information Age” is timely. The United Kingdom has actively encouraged co-operation between companies and organisations in the United Kingdom and the People's Republic of China in this important and rapidly advancing field and I m sure that MICNEX'88 will aid further co-operation

On the occasion of the Multinational Instrumentation Conference and Exhibition held by China Instrument Society. I wish MICONEX'88 satisfactory success in advance, and promote the exchange between Japan and China in the instrumentation area via this activity, for further devotion on China's modenization.

This year is the tenth anniversary of the signature for the treaty of Japan and China. I believe in this memorable year, Japan and China are close neigbours sepa-rated only by a strip of water will certainly gather greater development on the friendship in a wide range

It is a pleasure for me to address this message to the organizers of and praticipants in, the Third Multinational Instrumentation Conference and Exhibition. The issues of your forum are of great importance for they bear upon the generation organizing and distribution of information, and area that is now undergoing one of the most sign cant revdutions of our century.

In the field of commmunications, there is a new-found technological capacity available to the international media to bring to us developments worldwide as they happen Such advances, of course, help us to gain a fuller and more balanced understanding of cultures and civilizations, problems and opportunities not our own The technology behind them, moreover, equips us better than and past generation on the planet, to address our shared challenges together, intemationally. It is for this precise purpose that the United Nations and all its sperialized programmes exist. So, in closing, let me express the hope that the development of instrumentation will help science and technology in contributing meeting the challenges facing humanity today