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during the sino-soviet conflict in the last century, romania in eastern europe maintained very friendly relations with china out of dissatisfaction with the soviet union's overly domineering practices. it was the only country in the soviet eastern european group that maintained close relations with china at that time (albania had been "expelled" from the socialist group by the soviet union). before nixon's visit to china, china and the united states agreed on two communication channels, the "pakistan channel" and the "romania channel". that is, china and the united states can convey the information they want to tell each other at any time through pakistan or romania. this shows the close relationship between china and romania.

◆in september 1975, zhou enlai met with the head of the romanian party and government delegation, viktor wildets, in the hospital. this was the last time he met with a foreign guest before his death.

on september 7, 1975, a romanian party and government delegation headed by ilie wildets, member of the central political executive committee of the romanian communist party and secretary of the party central committee, visited my country and proposed to the ministry of foreign affairs of my country that they wanted to meet with premier zhou enlai. in order not to disappoint his friend, zhou enlai insisted on meeting with wildets and his delegation in the hospital, despite the severity and deterioration of his illness and the repeated dissuasion of his doctors. when wildets asked about zhou enlai's condition, zhou enlai said calmly: "when comrade gheorghe dej of your country passed away in 1965, i was able to walk several kilometers in a temperature of more than 20 degrees below zero to see him off. now, i have received marx's 'invitation'. it's nothing, it's a natural law that cannot be changed by human will."

wildts felt very heavy after hearing this. zhou enlai did not wait for the guest to ask questions and continued, "i am ill now and can no longer work. comrade deng xiaoping, one of our vice premiers, will take over the work of the state council from me. now, he has taken full responsibility. comrade deng xiaoping is very talented. you can fully believe that comrade deng xiaoping will continue to implement our party's internal and external policies. at the end of this meeting with foreign guests, zhou enlai asked wildts to convey his greetings to the romanian party and government leaders and other old friends. he also confidently told the romanian guests that the communist party of china, with a glorious history of 55 years and nurtured by mao zedong thought, dares to fight and will definitely win.

this was the last time zhou enlai formally met with foreign guests in his life.

editor: hou mengwei

editor: wang yuanyuan

editor: xiang dongmin