On October 13th, following the 8th meeting of Zhejiang West Australia Exchange Committee, “Jiaxing Bambuli Friendship City Exchange Video Conference” was successfully held online and offline. Mao Hongfang, deputy secretary of Jiaxing Municipal Committee and mayor, Gary Brennan, mayor of Bamburi, Don Ponzi, minister of Western Australian government, Jin Qian, deputy consul general of China in Perth, and old friends from both sides who witnessed the friendship between the two cities attended the meeting.
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Mayor Mao Hongfang reviewed the development of bilateral exchanges from individual fields to all-round exchanges and cooperation, and from a single two cities to a regional cluster of sister cities. In particular, he mentioned that Jiaxing is the birthplace of the Communist Party of China (CPC), and this year marks the centenary of the Communist Party of China (CPC). It is of great significance for both sides to celebrate the 21st anniversary of the friendship city. I sincerely hope that both sides can further strengthen friendly exchanges, continuously deepen pragmatic cooperation in the fields of economy, trade, humanities and education, and push the friendly relations between the two cities to a new height.
Mayor Gary Brennan and Minister Don Ponzi, who has been committed to the development of friendly relations between the two cities for a long time, praised the achievements made by the two sides in economy, trade, education, culture and personnel exchanges, and hoped that the two cities would carry forward the past and forge ahead into the future, and rely on the friendship ties between sister cities to further deepen economic and trade cooperation, promote humanities exchanges, expand educational cooperation and expand friendly exchanges.
Responsible persons of Jiaxing Education Bureau, Municipal Commerce Bureau, Municipal Federation of Industry and Commerce, Jiaxing College, Jiaxing No.1 Middle School and the governments and foreign affairs offices of counties (cities, districts) with friendly relations between Jiaxing and the cities (counties) under the jurisdiction of Western Australia were invited to attend the meeting.
Since Jiaxing and Bambuli established the sister city relationship in 2000, the exchanges between the two sides have been various and the cooperation results have been remarkable, which has become an important part of the sister provinces and states framework between Zhejiang Province and Western Australia. Among them, Jiashan County and Manjimapu County, Haining City and Marguerite River County, Haiyan County and Kauli County, Xiuzhou District and Harvey County have established friendly relations respectively, forming friendly communication clusters.
(Contributed by: Jiaxing Foreign Affairs Office, American University)