TO PEKING WITH LOVE

The Soviets continue to refuse him entry, but China’s ready for his first visit. It’s James Bond, agent 007--license to make money.

“The Chinese love action films,” Hui Lai Ping, business manager of China Film Import/Export in L.A., told us. “We’ve wanted a Bond for some time, and with the MCA Far East project (an industry effort to export American films to China) it looks like it will happen very shortly.”

While a number of American films have been seen in China, “Love Story,” distributed last year, was the first film from a major distrib shown in the country since 1949.

Ping conceded some censorship problems needing attention prior to acquiring a Bond: “We have strict censorship. Films can’t be too violent or too sexy. There can be no . . . overt political statements or religious dogma. It’s possible we may make cuts in the films, but our policy is always to request permission from the producers.”

United Artists, distributor of the Bond films, already has employed local 007 buff Charles Sherman to advise the company on the “politically correct” pictures.

Sherman’s list: “Thunderball,” “On Her Majesty’s Secret Service,” “Diamonds Are Forever,” “Live and Let Die,” “Moonraker” and “A View to a Kill.”

No-no’s: “Dr. No” (he was a Soviet operative), Bond battling the Cubans in the opening of “Octopussy,” and collaborating, for lack of a better word, with Russki spy Anya Amasova in “The Spy Who Loved Me.”