Ex-Australia PM aims Eurovision barb

Prince William arrives in China for royal tour

• Report rights infringement
• published: 01 Mar 2015
• views: 1039

The Duke of Cambridge has arrived in China for the first UK royal visit to the country in nearly 30 years. Prince William was met at Beijing airport by Britain\'s ambassador to China Barbara Woodward and Liu Xiaoming, China\'s ambassador to the UK. The high-profile trip will see him highlight the illegal wildlife trade, visit some of the nation\'s most famous sites and meet a rescued elephant. Earlier he ended his visit to Japan by meeting survivors of the 2011 tsunami. The last visit to China by a member of the Royal Family was in 1986, when the Queen and Prince Philip travelled to the country. Wildlife speech On Monday, the Duke will tour Beijing\'s famous Forbidden City before flying to Shanghai where he will launch the three-day Great Festival of Creativity at the city\'s Long Museum. It will promote British commercial creativity and innovation to a business audience from the UK, China and beyond, with the aim of creating opportunities for UK companies wanting to expand their markets. William will also attend an event before the premiere of the Paddington movie in Shanghai, and is expected to meet the famous bear. He will travel to Yunnan province on Wednesday where 250 wild Asian elephants still roam free. William will give a speech at a regional wildlife and conservation conference after seeing rescued elephants and learning how local communities live alongside the large animals. His four days in Japan came to an end William visited the north-east coast where thousands were killed when the tsunami, triggered by a 9.0-magnitude earthquake in March 2011. In the ci...