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Consul General Maria
Rowena Mendoza Sanchez with
Jing'an District
Mayor Zhang Renliang together with officials
from the Consulate
and the Jing'an District
Consul General Maria
Rowena Mendoza Sanchez presenting Luwan District Vice
Mayor Jiang Xiao Long with materials on the Philippines
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January 2009 -
Philippine Consul General to Shanghai Maria Rowena Mendoza
Sanchez led a delegation composed of Consul Aileen Mendiola-Rau, Attaché
Gerard Panga, Attaché Niel Ballesteros, Chief Interpreter Michelle Tang,
Trade Assistant Hans Ding to visit officials of the Luwan and Jing'an
Districts of Shanghai.
In her official talks
with Jing'an District Mayor Zhang Renliang and Luwan District Vice Mayor
Jiang Xiao Long, Consul General Sanchez discussed the various opportunities
for cooperation between the Philippines and the Luwan and Jing’an Districts
particularly in tourism, culture and business.
Citing enhanced
relations between the Philippines and China, particularly with the exchange
of visits of President Gloria Macapagal-Arroyo, President Hu Jintao and
Premier Wen Jiabao, officials of the Jing’An and Luwan districts expressed
their commitment to cooperate with the Philippine Consulate General in
Shanghai.
Both sides also
discussed the World Expo which will be hosted by Shanghai in 2010 and how
the two districts can help promote the Philippines in the run-up to 2010.
The Philippines signed the participation contract on 27 March 2008 and the
theme of the Philippine Pavilion is “Performing Cities.”
Luwan District is
home to the famous Xintiandi, the Huai Hai shopping street and the site of
the first meeting of the Communist Party of China while Jing'an District’s
Nanjing West Road is Shanghai’s equivalent to New York’s Fifth Avenue. Both
districts attract huge numbers of both local and foreign tourists and
consumers and are ideal venues to promote Philippines tourism, culture and
trade.
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