Shanghai Mayor Gong Zheng met respectively with the Governor of Queensland, Australia, and the Governor of Attica Province, Greece
Today, Shanghai Mayor Gong Zheng met with Janet Young, Governor of Queensland, Australia, and Hadzalias, Governor of Attica Province in Greece.
Gong Zheng said that currently, in accordance with President Xi Jinping and the central government's strategic positioning for the development of Shanghai, we are focusing on accelerating the construction of "five centers", continuing to strengthen the "four major functions", and accelerating the construction of a socialist city with world influence. A modern international metropolis. This year marks the 35th anniversary of the friendship between Shanghai and Queensland. Since 1989, they have signed 13 rounds of friendly cooperation memorandums, forging a deep friendship. Shanghai and Attica Province have a long history of friendship. In 1985, Shanghai established a sister city relationship with Piraeus City, Attica Province, and achieved positive results. We are willing to further strengthen practical cooperation with Queensland and Attica Province to achieve a higher level of mutual benefit and win-win results. We look forward to strengthening economic and trade cooperation, and warmly welcome Queensland and Attica companies to make good use of the CIIE as a big platform to bring more high-quality products and services to China and Shanghai. We hope to support and encourage outstanding companies to invest and start business in each other, and work together to make things bigger. Strong and common development. At the same time, we look forward to strengthening exchanges in education, health, ports and other fields to better benefit the people of the two places, encourage more tourists to travel to each other, promote cooperation between cultural and artistic groups, strengthen youth exchanges, and further enhance friendship.
Janet Young said that Queensland deeply feels the importance of its sister-city relationship with Shanghai. I am very happy to see the resumption of direct flights between Brisbane and Shanghai. I look forward to further deepening cooperation with each other in the fields of international education, health, agricultural products, culture, tourism, etc., learning from each other through friendly exchanges, and improving each other through cooperation. The level of development.
Gong Zheng meets with the Governor of Attica Province in Greece, Khazalias
Khazalias said that both Attica and Shanghai are important gateways, and the cities of Athens and Piraeus in Attica Province have long-standing friendly cooperative relations with Shanghai. It is hoped that the two places will establish close ties, build an open platform, and promote cooperation in shipping, culture, tourism and other fields. At the same time, we look forward to establishing a strategic cooperation framework to add new vitality to the cooperation between the two places, promote the early realization of the cooperation vision, and make the cooperation results benefit the people of the two places.
Australian Consul General in Shanghai William Zhang and Greek Consul General in Shanghai George Patnew attended relevant meetings.
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