Felipe and Letizia leave to China course to Palm The Princes inaugurate the Cervantes Institute of Beijing. ADRIAN FONCILLAS (15/07/2006) Publicity Felipe and Letizia fulfilled yesterday in Beijing one of the last acts of the labor season. The Princes, which they will arrive at Majorca the next week, where Felipe will participate in the regata Breitling, concluded its official trip of three days by China after attending a representation of the Spanish company of dance Gelabert & Azopardi in the Poly Theatre Seat of Beijing. For her goodbye of China, the Princess chose a white dress with red flowers made with the silk that the wife of Hu Jintao, the Chinese president, gave to him in the Canary Islands two years ago. In these days, Felipe and Letizia have followed a tight economic, political and cultural agenda by the Eastern country. The Princes inaugurated the Institute Cervantes of Beijing yesterday, the greater one of the world, that will serve to extend the Spanish culture. The center has more than 3,000 square meters and its beginning has cost two million euros. With him it is tried to harness the Spanish language, that clears the secrecy in China, surpassed by the English, the French and the German. The Princes attended the typical dance of the Leon, that symbolizes the prosperity and the good auguries. This week several cultural acts in the occasion of the opening of the institute have been programmed, like the presentation of the first unit of the eatable Quijote and the exhibition of films of Second of Chomón with musical bottom of the pianista Jordi Sabatés. STATE HONORS The Princes were received in the evening with own military honorses of Chief of State in the Great Palace of the Town, located in the seat of Tiananmen, by the Chinese vice-president, Zeng Qinghong, and prime minister, Wen Jiabao. Hu did not receive to them to be in Russia, where this weekend is celebrated the summit of the G-8. The presents promised to take measures to reduce the trade balance, very upset of the Chinese side, and to facilitate the entrance of the Spanish companies. Princes de Asturias also were received by the Organizing Committee of the Olympic Games of Beijing 2008. Before arriving at the plomiza Beijing, the Princes had been in Shanghái, the most cosmopolitan and overwhelming Chinese large city. There they inaugurated the Forum of Investments and Enterprise Cooperation in China, in which a hundred of Spanish companies and 700 Chinese have made contact with the enemy during these days. In the evening, in the capital, they presided over a supper offered by the minister of Commerce, Bo Xilai. In the act, the Prince saluted to the Chinese hearing in than a more acceptable one and he gained the first applause of the amiable concurrence. In socialist China, the Princes still more monopolized the attention of the Spanish community and of the native one, prevailed a century ago of the millenarian purple of their emperors. In Shanghái they were received by means thousand of Spaniards. Many with consortes Chinese, that insisted on photographing themselves with Felipe and Letizia. At the end of their tight agenda, the Princes in the evening undertook the trip from return to Madrid, in an airplane of the Spanish Air Force.
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