Yunnan Provincial People's Association for Friendship with Foreign Countries

January 12, 2025

"Yunnan Daily" published an article,

Reported that Yunnan added six new international friendly cities in 2025.

By the end of 2025, the total number of international friendly cities in the province reached 118 pairs. Among them, focusing on key nodes, four pairs of new international friendly cities in Laos and Vietnam were added, and a total of 47 pairs of international friendly cities were established with the five Mekong River countries, and 34 pairs of border friendly villages were established with Laos, Myanmar, and Vietnam.

By 2025, the quality and effectiveness of Yunnan's international friendly city work will have improved. The Yunnan Provincial People's Association for Foreign Friendship has cooperated with the Yunnan Provincial Delegation for Foreign Friendship to carry out the "Heart to Heart, Yunnan Journey" project in friendly cities in Cambodia, Bangladesh, Malaysia, Indonesia, and other countries. In friendly cities in Benin, Cambodia, Laos, Thailand, and other countries, it has innovatively created the "Friendly City Classroom". Focusing on the requirement of building "four bridges", the 2025 Yunnan International Friendly City Cooperation Week series of activities were held, inviting more than 210 Chinese and foreign guests from 20 countries to attend, and promoting Yunnan to sign 18 cooperation documents with foreign parties, involving friendly city结盟, medical and health care, characteristic agriculture, ecological environment protection, economic and trade investment and other fields, with a total amount of 103 million yuan, achieving two-way empowerment of international friendly cities and the exhibition. On the day of the signing, the cold-proof truck loaded with flowers set off from Kunming to the capital of Kazakhstan, Astana. Under the guidance of the China People's Association for Foreign Friendship, it jointly sponsored the 2025 Lancang-Meikong Government Cooperation Forum and the Historical and Cultural City Dialogue with the Dali Bai Autonomous Prefecture, with more than 200 provincial and ministerial guests from the six Lancang-Meikong countries attending, including Laos, and the scale and level of guests exceeded previous sessions. The forum issued the "Dali Declaration", which fully demonstrates the responsibility and action of Yunnan Province as the forefront and main province of Lancang-Meikong cooperation.