On this day, 38 years ago, on September 13, 1987 (July 21, 1987 in the lunar calendar), Deng Xiaoping met with Hammer and said that China's reform and opening up was on the right path. On September 13, 1987, Deng Xiaoping, director of the Advisory Commission of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of China, met with Dr. Armand Hammer, chairman of Occidental Petroleum Company of the United States, and said that the completion of China's largest foreign cooperation project, Antaibao Open-pit Coal Mine in Pingshuo, Shanxi, once again showed that China is on the right path. Deng Xiaoping emphasized that if China wants to develop, it is impossible to do without reform and opening up. In the future, we must be more open and accelerate the pace of reform. Dr. Hammer, 89, has visited China eight times and met Deng Xiaoping many times. The two old friends met again today, shook hands and hugged each other warmly, and congratulated China on the significant results achieved in its cooperation with Western oil companies. Deng Xiaoping praised Dr. Hammer as a brave man. Deng Xiaoping said that some foreigners still lack the courage to cooperate with China to build a project as large as the Pingshuo Antaibao Coal Mine. Hammer told Deng Xiaoping that when you visited the United States eight years ago, you talked to me: "You used to help Lenin develop industry, but why don't you help China now? "I agreed at the time. Now my promise has finally been fulfilled. The completion of the Pingshuo Antaibao Coal Mine provides a model for foreign entrepreneurs: what Hammer can do, they should be able to do. Deng Xiaoping pointed out that the completion and commissioning of Pingshuo Antaibao Coal Mine was a basic success achieved by the cooperation between the two sides. To achieve full success, we must ensure that the contract is honored and solve the problem of coal sales. Deng Xiaoping welcomed Western oil companies to expand cooperation with China in coal and carry out technical cooperation in oil and other fields. Hammer said that my company has strong confidence in cooperating with China. During my frequent visits to China, I have seen with my own eyes that China is changing every year, and the living standards of China people have doubled in the past eight years. The reform and opening up policies you have proposed have been successful, which will be worth noting in future history. I think China's opening up to the outside world has just begun, and more foreign entrepreneurs will come to cooperate with you in the future. Deng Xiaoping said that this is exactly what we hope for.