Yunnan Provincial People's Association for Friendship with Foreign Countries

On November 18, Wang Ning met with former Japanese Prime Minister and Chairman of the Japan Institute for East Asian Community Yukio Hatoyama and his delegation in Kunming

On November 18, Wang Ning, Secretary of the Provincial Party Committee, met in Kunming with Yukio Hatoyama, former Prime Minister of Japan and Chairman of the Japan Institute of East Asian Community, who came to Yunnan to attend the 2024 China International Sister Cities Conference.

Wang Ning welcomed Yukio Hatoyama and his delegation and introduced the economic and social development of Yunnan and the exchanges between Yunnan and Japan. Wang Ning said that China and Japan are friendly neighbors separated by a strip of water. In the early 1980s, Kunming and Fujisawa became the first pair of international sister cities in Yunnan Province. Over the past 40 years, friendly exchanges and cooperation between Yunnan and Japan have become increasingly close. The results are fruitful. Yunnan is willing to work with relevant places in Japan to implement the important consensus reached by the leaders of the two countries, use sister city cooperation as a link, further intensify exchanges and cooperation in the fields of economy, trade, agriculture, tourism and other fields, promote mutual understanding among the younger generation, and continuously consolidate the public opinion of China-Japan friendship. Basic contribution.

Yukio Hatoyama congratulated the International Sister Cities Conference on the success and thanked the Chinese government and Yunnan Province for their warm and thoughtful arrangements. He expressed that he hopes to use this conference as an opportunity to further expand cooperation between Japan and China's sister cities, and is willing to make active efforts to promote the expansion of economic and trade cooperation between Japanese localities and Yunnan, promote youth exchanges, and enhance mutual understanding and friendship between the people of both sides.

Qiu Jiang and Wang Hao of Yunnan Province, heads of the CPAFFC and relevant provincial departments attended the meeting.