Published by: THE WORLD UYGHUR NETWORK NEWS November 3, 1997

10/28/97, Urumqi Xinjiang Ribao, FBIS Translated Text

Accompanied by Major General Luo Bin, director of the Foreign Affairs Bureau of the Chinese Ministry of National Defense, Kazakh Defense Minister General Mukhtar Altynbayev, who had been on an official goodwill visit to China, arrived in Urumqi on 9 October. Major General Li Donghui, commander of the Xinjiang Military District [MD], met and hosted a dinner for the Kazakh delegation. Among those present at the dinner were the MD's deputy commanders Fang Denghua and Kurban Aierxiding, chief of staff Ma Diankui, and deputy chief of staff Su

Mingluan. In the afternoon, Minister Altynbayev and his wife and entourage visited an engineering corps regiment and toured Urumqi City in the company of Commander Li Donghui and his wife. They left for home by special plane in the evening. [Liu Geping]