Internal working platform of Yunnan Association for Friendship with Foreign Countries

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 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.

The conference was co-sponsored by the Chinese People's Association for Friendship with Foreign Countries, the China International Sister Cities Federation and the Yunnan Provincial People's Government. The theme of the conference is "Sharing, Win-Win, and Creating a Future Together." More than 700 people including local government representatives from 41 countries on five continents attended.