PR99560

LIAOCHENG, China, Feb. 10, 2023 /Xinhua=KYODO JBN/--

Recently, Liaocheng City and Port Vila, the capital of the Republic of Vanuatu,

held a signing ceremony for friendly cooperative relations with each other.

Li Minggang, Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary of China to the

Republic of Vanuatu, Chen Baiwei, Deputy Director of the Foreign Affairs Office

of Shandong Provincial People's Government, Steve Kiel, Mayor of Port Vila,

Vanuatu, and Zhang Baishun, Deputy Secretary of the Liaocheng City Party

Committee and Mayor, attended the online signing ceremony and delivered

speeches respectively. Wang Gang, vice mayor of Liaocheng, presided over the

signing ceremony.

At the ceremony, a promotional video of Liaocheng City was played, and Zhang

Baishun and Steve Kiel signed the "City Agreement on Establishing Friendly and

Cooperative Relations", according to the Information Office of the People's

Government of Liaocheng.

Liaocheng City is located in the west of Shandong Province, China, with a total

area of 8,628 square kilometers and a population of 6.5 million, with a long

history, long water transportation, convenient transportation and complete

industry, known as "Jiangbei Water City, Canal Ancient Capital" and "Venice of

the East", with many national city business cards such as national historical

and cultural city, China's excellent tourist city, national health city and so

on. The Republic of Vanuatu is located in the west of South Pacific Ocean, and

is a Melanesian archipelago. As the capital, Port Vila is the "charming

capital" of the South Pacific, with convenient transportation and rich tourism

and fishery resources.

The participants unanimously agreed that Liaocheng City and Port Vila City have

obvious complementary advantages, great cooperation potential and bright

prospects, and hoped that the two cities will take this signing as an

opportunity to plan to establish a more all-round sister-city relationship and

push the cooperation between the two places to a new height.

Source: Information Office of the People's Government of Liaocheng

Image Attachments Links:

   Link: http://asianetnews.net/view-attachment?attach-id=437823

   Caption: Signing ceremony

   Link: http://asianetnews.net/view-attachment?attach-id=437830

   Caption: Signing ceremony

   Link: http://asianetnews.net/view-attachment?attach-id=437831

   Caption: Liaocheng Dongchang Lake at night

   Link: http://asianetnews.net/view-attachment?attach-id=437832

   Caption: Liaocheng Shan-Shan Guildhall