Yunnan Provincial People's Association for Friendship with Foreign Countries

Sharing, win-win, and creating a better future

2024 China International Sister Cities Conference opens in Kunming

Peng Qinghua attended the opening ceremony and delivered a speech. Political leaders from Burundi, Laos, Japan and other countries delivered speeches. Wang Ning and Yang Wanming delivered a speech. Wang Yubo and Shi Yugang attended.

On November 18, the 2024 China International Sister Cities Conference opened in Kunming

On November 18, the 2024 China International Sister Cities Conference opened in Kunming.

Peng Qinghua, Vice Chairman of the Standing Committee of the National People's Congress, attended the opening ceremony and delivered a speech. Speaker of the Senate of Burundi Sinzo Hagera, Secretary of the Vientiane Municipal Party Committee of Laos Anupa Dunalon, and former Japanese Prime Minister Yukio Hatoyama delivered speeches.

Wang Ning, Secretary of the Yunnan Provincial Party Committee, and Yang Wanming, President of the Chinese People's Association for Friendship with Foreign Countries, delivered speeches. Wang Yubo, Governor of Yunnan Province, and Shi Yugang, Deputy Secretary of the Provincial Party Committee, attended the event. Yan Dong, Vice President of the Chinese People's Association for Friendship with Foreign Countries, presided over the opening ceremony.

Peng Qinghua attended the opening ceremony and delivered a speech

Peng Qinghua pointed out that the Chinese government attaches great importance to the important and fundamental role of international sister cities in promoting local cooperation, enhancing people-to-people friendship, and promoting mutual learning among civilizations. In the historical process of mankind joining hands to modernize, we hope that Chinese and foreign sister cities will seize new opportunities for open cooperation, stimulate new momentum for innovative development, create new cooperation projects to benefit the people, write a new chapter of mutual learning among civilizations, and inject new energy into maintaining world peace, stability and prosperity. More positive energy.

Wang Ning delivers a speech

Wang Ning said that Yunnan has the gene of openness and inclusiveness, the tradition of friendly exchanges, and a platform for mutually beneficial cooperation. We will thoroughly implement Xi Jinping Thought on Diplomacy and fully implement the deployment of the Third Plenary Session of the 20th CPC Central Committee. Under the guidance of the China Association for Friendship with Foreign Countries, we will work with sister cities to maintain traditional friendship through close exchanges, achieve win-win development through pragmatic cooperation, and achieve win-win development through mutual cooperation. Learn from each other to promote common progress and make Yunnan's contribution to deepening international sister city exchanges.

Yang Wanming delivered a speech

Yang Wanming said that the Chinese People's Association for Friendship with Foreign Countries will conscientiously implement the spirit of the important instructions of President Xi Jinping's important speeches, give full play to the unique role of people-to-people diplomacy, work with local governments at all levels in China, and actively further deepen exchanges and cooperation with sister cities around the world to move towards a shared and win-win situation. A bright future.

Opening ceremony scene

In their speeches, dignitaries from various countries spoke highly of the development process and achievements of the international sister city undertaking, saying that they will use the international sister city as a bridge to carry out extensive cultural exchange activities, share development experience and cooperation opportunities, deepen practical cooperation between localities, and enhance the common welfare of people of all countries. .

With the theme of "Sharing, Win-win, and Creating a Future Together," this conference is co-sponsored by the Chinese People's Association for Friendship with Foreign Countries, China International Friendship Cities Federation, and the Yunnan Provincial People's Government, and hosted by the Kunming Municipal People's Government. During the conference, a series of forums will be held, an award ceremony for Chinese and foreign sister cities will be held, an agreement on the formation of Chinese and foreign sister cities and cooperation projects will be signed, and the "Kunming Initiative" calling for deepening international sister city cooperation will be released.

Foreign dignitaries and former dignitaries, representatives of central government departments responsible for local affairs, local governments, relevant organizations, think tanks, and enterprises; guests from relevant domestic provinces, autonomous regions, and municipalities attended the opening ceremony. Liu Hongjian, Qiu Jiang, Zeng Yan, Wang Shufen, Wang Hao, Zhao Jin and Wang Xueqin of Yunnan Province, and Wang Jinfu, Vice Governor of Fujian Province, attended.