The World Mayors Dialogue and the 2026 Wuhan Worldwide Friendship Cities Cooperation Convention kicked off on September 20.（Photograph by Chen liang）
On the occasion, mayors and metropolis representatives from six worldwide sister cities of Wuhan known as for nearer cooperation in know-how, {industry}, training and tradition.
Representatives from Manchester in Britain, Kemi in Finland, Cape City in South Africa, Yangon in Myanmar, Rzeszów in Poland and Turkistan in Kazakhstan took half in discussions on city innovation, industrial cooperation and cultural change.
Manchester: a brand new begin after 40 years of friendship
This 12 months marks the fortieth anniversary of the sister-city relationship between Wuhan and Manchester.
Shaukat Ali, lord mayor of Manchester, stated the town was able to deepen cooperation with Wuhan in training, tradition, youth affairs, innovation and {industry}.
“Manchester is dedicated to selling city transformation by way of open cooperation, sharing alternatives, and fostering widespread improvement with worldwide sister cities like Wuhan,” he stated.
Ali stated Manchester had developed from a post-industrial metropolis into an innovation-oriented economic system, with a deal with superior manufacturing, synthetic intelligence, life sciences and inexperienced applied sciences.
He stated the 2 cities might share expertise in city transformation, innovation districts, university-industry cooperation and low-carbon improvement, whereas encouraging hyperlinks amongst universities, companies and analysis establishments.
He additionally highlighted present academic and cultural hyperlinks, together with cooperation between Hubei College and Manchester Metropolitan College and exchanges between the Royal Northern Faculty of Music and Wuhan Conservatory of Music.
Kemi: balancing development with environmental safety
Mikko Koivulehto, chairman of the Metropolis Council of Kemi, stated the Finnish metropolis sought to stability financial development with environmental safety.
“We consider that defending nature and constructing a affluent metropolis can go hand in hand,” he stated.
Kemi, a port metropolis in Finnish Lapland, has developed industries based mostly on renewable uncooked supplies, clear vitality and the bioeconomy. The town can be looking for to broaden tourism and enhance livability.
This 12 months marks the tenth anniversary of the pleasant change relationship between Wuhan and Kemi. The 2 cities have cooperated in areas together with commerce, the round economic system, tourism and youth exchanges.
Cape City: know-how and jobs key to city transformation
Lungelo Mbandazayo, metropolis supervisor of Cape City, stated technological innovation, expertise improvement, infrastructure and inexperienced renewal have been key to Wuhan’s transformation.
Cape City, a UNESCO Metropolis of Design, is looking for to broaden its know-how and digital sectors whereas selling inexperienced know-how and an inclusive economic system.
Mbandazayo stated youth unemployment remained a serious problem for Cape City and that technological improvement wanted to create jobs.
After visiting Wuhan corporations and know-how amenities, he stated Cape City hoped to deepen exchanges with Wuhan in know-how and expertise.
Yangon: looking for sensible cooperation with Wuhan
Yangon Mayor Myo Myint Aung stated the town was trying to Wuhan for expertise in smart-city improvement, digital governance, clever transport and concrete resilience.
Wuhan and Yangon signed a letter of intent on pleasant exchanges and cooperation throughout the occasion.
Yangon is creating a long-term plan to accommodate inhabitants development and broaden its city, industrial and transport infrastructure.
Throughout a go to to Wuhan on Sept. 19, Myo toured the Optics Valley “Photon” suspended monorail, HGTECH and a Xiaomi sensible house equipment manufacturing facility.
“We got here to Wuhan not simply to look at, however to study and cooperate,” he stated, including that Yangon hoped to develop sensible manufacturing and strengthen cooperation in info know-how.
Rzeszów: alternatives in aerospace and know-how
Rzeszów Mayor Konrad Fijołek stated the Polish metropolis hoped to cooperate with Wuhan in aerospace, sensor know-how, biodiversity and local weather motion.
Rzeszów is house to the “Aviation Valley,” a serious aerospace cluster in Central Europe.
“Exploring cooperation with Wuhan is the rationale I got here right here,” Fijołek stated.
After visiting HGTECH and a Xiaomi sensible house equipment manufacturing facility, he stated Wuhan’s automated manufacturing and applied sciences in sensors and satellite tv for pc techniques had impressed him.
He stated cities might assist join universities, companies and analysis establishments and promote worldwide cooperation.
Turkistan: 5 areas for cooperation
Turkestan Mayor Azimbek Pazylbekuly stated his metropolis hoped to broaden cooperation with Wuhan in tourism and tradition, training and science, funding and entrepreneurship, digitalization and innovation, and transport and logistics.
Wuhan and Turkistan signed a memorandum of intent on pleasant exchanges and cooperation throughout the occasion.
Turkistan, an historical Silk Highway metropolis and a UNESCO World Heritage web site, has been creating industries together with meals processing, textiles, furnishings and development supplies.
Pazylbekuly stated cooperation between governments, companies, universities and analysis establishments might assist flip the 2 cities’ exchanges into concrete tasks.
The convention additionally included friendship-city anniversary celebrations and a signing ceremony for 10 cooperation tasks. A digital record of cooperation alternatives and an initiative on worldwide friendship-city cooperation have been launched.
Throughout their keep, the visiting mayors toured Wuhan’s know-how, manufacturing and ecological amenities, together with the Optics Valley suspended monorail, a Yangtze finless porpoise conservation middle, Xiaomi, HGTECH and Dongfeng Motor amenities.
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