• All those years ago

E. S. Taylor (universally known as Jack) remembers serving on the working committee of SBTC from June 1959, eventually becoming chairman in the early ‘70s.

As deputy director-general (overseas) of the CBI, he was instrumental in finding SBTC office space in its premises in Tothill Street from 1964 and providing accounting and administration services to SBTC.

Jack Taylor helped pull together the various strands of expertise for the 1964 exhibition, approaching trade fair organisers and freight forwarders who had experience in fairs in Eastern Europe.

With Peter Marshall, he organised participation at the exhibition, manned the SBTC stand for the duration, and organised the debriefing at CBI at the end of 1964. During the course of the exhibition he, together with John Keswick, was received for a lengthy business discussion by China's premier, Zhou Enlai.

Jack Taylor also played a major part in getting the Sino-British Trade Review off the ground, seeing it as a means of disseminating business information and opportunities gleaned from the exhibition and further promoting Sino-British trade.

• Messages of support
Tony Blair; Wen Jiabao; Wan Jifei; Zha Peixin
• Introduction
Lord Powell; Peter Nightingale
History
• Spirit of the times
The 48 Group holds a unique place in international trade history, writes Luise Schafer.
• Profile: Jack Perry
• Profile: Sir John Keswick
• Softly, softly
From an idea, to a desk, to a fully fledged trade promotion body, Hilary Footer charts the growth of the Sino-British Trade Council.
• Profile: Jack Taylor
• Mission unaccomplished
Recent policy changes in China may mean that within the next 50 years China will achieve its cherished goal, writes Allan Zhang.
• 1973: UK exhibition
Shop window for the 1970s
• Taking on a business focus
As China has grown, so the work of the CBBC has expanded and diversified, writes Janet Kealey.
• Royal visit, grand events
The two-day seminar ‘Sea Day' and ‘Land Day' in Shanghai in October 1986, coincided with the Queen's historic visit to China, writes Janet Kealey.
• Profile: CCPIT
CBBC's partner in China
• Meeting of minds
Mandi Sturrock explains how the merger of the SBTC and the 48 Group came about.
• The 1995 Mission
Breaking the logjam

Special features
• Visit to the UK: Wen Jiabao
China's premier, Wen Jiabao, was the latest in a long line of VIP visitors from China to
be received by CBBC.
• CBBC's new directions
New initiatives for CBBC's new half-century

First Person
Personal insights and memories from the past 50 years
• Percy Timberlake
• Alan Donald
• Richard Evans
• Douglas Hurd
• Derek Lyons
• Tony Galsworthy
• Hugh Davies
• Ian Rae
• Frank Edwards
• John Stuttard
• Michael Doughty
• Charles Cuddington
• Bill Thomson
• William Wainman