KUALA LUMPUR, Feb 13 (Bernama) -- Liaocheng City located in the west of Shandong Province, China recently conducted a signing ceremony to establish friendly and cooperative relations with Port Vila, the capital of the Republic of Vanuatu.
At the ceremony, Liaocheng City Party Committee Deputy Secretary and Mayor, Zhang Baishun and Port Vila Mayor, Steve Kiel signed the "City Agreement on Establishing Friendly and Cooperative Relations".
In addition, a promotional video for Liaocheng City was shown during the ceremony, according to the Information Office of the People's Government of Liaocheng in a statement.
The participants at the online signing ceremony unanimously agreed that Liaocheng City and Port Vila City have obvious complementary advantages, great cooperation potential and bright prospects.
They hoped that the two cities would 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.
With a population of 6.5 million, Liaocheng City has 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.
Meanwhile, 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.
-- BERNAMA
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