Report from this newspaper on September 25 (Reporter Lin Jiangli) This morning, the 2023 World Sister Cities Forum and Sister Provinces and States Leaders’ Conference opened at the Shandong Hall. Chinese and foreign guests from more than 30 countries and regions gathered in Qilu to reaffirm friendship, discuss cooperation, and work together to write a new chapter in the cooperative development of sister cities.
Provincial Party Committee Secretary Lin Wu attended the opening ceremony and delivered a speech. Provincial Party Committee Deputy Secretary and Governor Zhou Naixiang, Provincial CPPCC Chairman Ge Huijun, and Provincial People’s Congress Standing Committee Deputy Director and Party Leadership Group Secretary Yang Dongqi attended.
Lin Wu extended a warm welcome to all the guests and introduced the economic and social development of Shandong. Lin Wu said that the relationship between countries lies in the mutual affinity between the people, and the mutual affinity between the people lies in the mutual understanding of the hearts. President Xi Jinping attaches great importance to people-to-people friendship and requires vigorous efforts to carry out international sister city work and promote exchanges between Chinese and foreign local governments. In recent years, Shandong has thoroughly implemented the important instructions and requirements of President Xi Jinping, adhered to the concepts of openness, inclusiveness, mutual benefit and win-win, and promoted sister-city cooperation to bear fruitful results. Facing the future, Shandong is willing to work with its sister cities to jointly build a “community” of industrial collaboration, deepen cooperation in scientific and technological innovation, industrial development and other aspects, and strive to achieve mutual benefit and win-win results; jointly build a “major channel” for economic and trade exchanges, strengthen ports, customs clearance, ports , logistics and other cooperation to promote trade and investment liberalization and facilitation; jointly expand green and low-carbon “new space”, carry out energy conservation, environmental protection, clean energy, climate change and other cooperation, so that people can enjoy the beauty of nature and life in green waters and green mountains , the beauty of life; jointly expand the “circle of friends” for regional cooperation, make full use of local government exchange mechanisms, and continue to expand the scale of cooperation between sister cities; jointly build a “bridge of heart” for people-to-people and cultural exchanges, and jointly organize a variety of cultural activities to bring sister cities together The people’s hearts are closer and their love is deeper. Living in the same global village, sister cities should be “one family”. We sincerely hope that friends from all sister cities will often come to Shandong to take a look and share the opportunities of the times with us, write a new chapter of cooperation, and contribute to the building of a community with a shared future for mankind.
Paulette Bethel, Ambassador of the Bahamas to China, Yan Dong, Vice President of the Chinese People’s Association for Friendship with Foreign Countries, Alan Windy, Governor of the Western Cape Province of South Africa, Li Jie, Vice President of the Chinese People’s Institute of Foreign Affairs, Mayor of Jeju City, South Korea Jiang Bingshan and Chen Yuming, vice president of the China Public Diplomacy Association, delivered a speech.
Zhou Naixiang and Alan Wendy jointly signed a memorandum of understanding between Shandong Province and the Western Cape Province of South Africa on further strengthening friendly cooperative relations. Representatives from 10 pairs of provinces, states and cities, including Shandong Province and Bauchi State in Nigeria, Jinan City and Rostov-on-Don in Russia, and Zaozhuang City and Karakol City in Kyrgyzstan, signed contracts.
Representatives from Baringo County in Kenya, Bauchi State in Nigeria, Da Nang City in Vietnam, Upper Austria State in Austria, Kosrae State in the Federated States of Micronesia, and Cluj Province in Romania made promotional speeches focusing on local development and sister city cooperation.
At the opening ceremony, 8 conference results were released, namely: the International Science and Technology Alliance Initiative for Green and Low-Carbon Development of Renewable Energy, the Greenhouse Gas Detection Small Satellite Project Initiative, the Green and Low-carbon Development Action Initiative for Urban and Rural Construction, and the Green Transportation Cooperation Development Jinan Initiative, Child-Friendly Jinan Initiative, Green Development Action Initiative, Green Building Lighthouse Action Plan, book “Working Together to Create the Future – 20 Years of Shandong Province and the “Sister Province and State Leaders Summit”” book.
This conference is co-sponsored by the Shandong Provincial People’s Government and the Chinese People’s Association for Friendship with Foreign Countries, with the theme of “green development and low-carbon life”, including the opening ceremony and plenary session, collective meeting of sister provinces and states, international sister city roundtable dialogue, bilateral and multilateral There were more than 20 activities including talks, exchange and matchmaking meetings in the fields of education, economy and trade, visits to Jinan as an international sister city, intangible cultural heritage exhibitions, and theatrical performances.
Before the meeting, Lin Wu and Zhou Naixiang met with representatives of foreign guests attending the meeting in Shandong Building.
Provincial and Jinan City leaders Liu Qiang, Zhang Haibo, Deng Yunfeng, and Yu Haitian; envoys from many countries stationed in China, leaders of international sister cities, international friendly persons, heads of foreign enterprises and universities, experts and scholars, foreign media reporters in China; relevant provincial departments ( Leaders from units, universities, and enterprises attended the opening ceremony.
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2023-09-25 22:57:09
