EXECUTIVE PROGRAM OF THE CULTURAL AGREEMENT BETWEEN THE GOVERNMENT OF THE REPUBLIC OF THE PHILIPPINES AND THE GOVERNMENT OF THE PEOPLE’S REPUBLIC OF CHINA FOR 1982 – 1983

The Government of the Republic of the Philippines and the
Government of the People’s Republic of China, desiring to develop and
strengthen further the cultural exchanges and friendly relations
existing between their two countries, on the basis of the Cultural
Agreement signed in Beijing on 8 July 1979, have agreed, through mutual
consultations, upon the following Executive Program for Cultural
Exchanges for the period 1982-1983, subject to the laws and regulations
of each country:

ARTICLE I
CULTURE AND ART

1. The Chinese side will invite a Philippine Cultural
delegation of not more than ten members for a visit of one to two weeks
to China in 1982.

2. The Chinese side will invite a party of three members headed by Dr.
Lucresia Kasilag, President of the Cultural Center of the Philippines,
to give concerts featuring Dr. Kasilag’s works in collaboration with
Chinese musicians in Beijing in April 1982.

3. The Chinese side will send a choral group of about 30-40 members for a
performance visit in the Philippine in January 1983.

4. The Philippine side will invite the Shanghai Ladies String Quartet
accompanied by one interpreter for a performance visit in the first half
of 1982.

5. The Chinese side will send a dramatists delegation of three or four
members for a visit to the Philippines in 1982.

6. The Philippine side will send a 12-member drama group called “Sining
Silanganan” for a performance tour of China sometime in April 1983.

7. Both sides will exchange five-member delegation of writers for visits
of about ten days. The Philippine side will send its delegation in
1982; the Chinese side will send its delegation in 1983.

8. The Chinese side will hold an exhibition in China of Philippine
Photographic Art sometime in 1982. The exhibition will be accompanied by
two escorts.

9. Each side will hold a folk arts and crafts exhibition in the country
of the other side. The Chinese exhibition will be held in the
Philippines in 1982; the Philippine exhibition will be held in China in
1983, each lasting about ten days and to be accompanied by three to four
escorts.

10. The Chinese side will send a three-member group to visit the
Philippines and to study the latter’s dances. The time and duration of
the visit will be decided through separate consultations.

11. Both sides will exchange a group of three to four singers and
instrumentalists for solo and duet performances in 1983. The time and
duration of the visits will be decided through separate consultations.

12. The Philippine side will send the University of the Philippines
Cherubim and Seraphim (Children’s Choir) for a performance tour sometime
in 1982.

13. Both sides will encourage the exchange of publications and
translations of each other’s outstanding works of literature and art.

ARTICLE II
EDUCATION

1. The Chinese side will send a six-member educational
delegation for a study visit of one or two weeks in the Philippines in
1982.

2. Both sides will exchange three scholarships, the fields of study to
be decided through separate consultations.

3. Both sides will encourage reciprocal invitations between their
respective universities for professors and scholars to teach, give
lectures, or do research on a short-term basis, subject to the
provisions of Article V.

ARTICLE III
SPORTS

1. The two sides will encourage during the period 1982-1983
an exchange of one sports team each year for friendly competition, the
details to be decided by both sides through future consultations.

2. The Philippine side will invite three to five. Chinese experts and/or
coaches in martial arts and gymnastics to conduct workshops in those
two fields at the University of Life sometime in 1982.

ARTICLE IV
EXPENDITURES
The two sides, unless otherwise stipulated, have agreed upon the
following financial terms and conditions:

1. The sending country will pay for the international travel fare and
transport expenses of the persons and items for exchange stipulated in
the present Executive Program, and the receiving country will pay for
the internal expenses, such as board and lodging, transportation, and
medical treatment. The international travel and transport expenses to
be borne by the sending country are those incurred from the sending
country to the first city where the official visit starts in the
receiving country, and from the city where the official visit ends back
to the sending country.

2. Consultations on expenses for scholarships between the two countries
and for the professors and scholars teaching in the country of the other
side, shall he conducted for the Philippine side through diplomatic
channels and for the Chinese side with the Ministry of Education.

3. Consultations on expenses for Chinese experts and/or coaches in
martial arts and gymnastics holding workshops in Manila shall be
conducted separately, for the Philippine side through diplomatic
channels and for the Chinese side with the Commission for Physical
Culture and Sports.

ARTICLE V
OTHERS
1. Future consultations on details of the items for exchange stipulated
in the present Executive Program shall be conducted for the Philippine
side through diplomatic channels and for the Chinese side with the
Ministries and Departments in charge.

2. If it is necessary to add or omit some items during the
implementation of the present Executive Program, agreement on them will
be made through further consultations between the two sides through
diplomatic channels.

3. The present Executive Program will enter into force on the day of
signing by the two sides.

Done in Manila on this 22ndnd day of March 1982, in the Pilipino,
Chinese and English languages, all three texts being equally authentic.

(Sgd.)CARLOS P. ROMULO	(Sgd.)
FOR THE GOVERNMENT OF THE	FOR THE GOVERNMENT OF THE
REPUBLIC OF THE PHILIPPINES	PEOPLE’S REPUBLIC OF CHINA