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L-R: Consul
General Maria Rowena Mendoza Sanchez, Mayor
Feliciano “Sonny” Belmonte, Jr. Nanjing Vice
Mayor Wang Shouwen, Nanjing Foreign Affairs Office Deputy Director-General
Chen Hua
Mayor Feliciano “Sonny” Belmonte, Jr.,
Consul General Maria Rowena Mendoza Sanchez, and Nanjing Vice Mayor Wang
Shouwen together with officials from Nanjing and Quezon City
2 June 2009 - Quezon City Mayor Feliciano
“Sonny” Belmonte, Jr., together with ten members of the City Council and the
Philippine Consulate General in Shanghai, visited Nanjing City in Jiangsu
Province to build a sister-city relationship between Quezon City and Nanjing
City.
Mayor Belmonte underscored the importance
that a relationship with this leading Chinese city could bring to Quezon
City in terms of technology cooperation, trade, investment, tourism,
education.
During his meeting with Mayor Wang
Shouwen, Mayor Belmonte expressed his desire to raise the level of ties
between Nanjing and Quezon city and to ultimately establish sister-city
relations. Both sides identified potential areas of cooperation such as
energy efficient technologies particularly solar technology, education
exchange, health and wellness, ICT, investment in the new CBD, mass housing,
anti-pollution technology.
Nanjing is one of the production bases
for light automobiles and motorcycles in China. It is also one of the
largest petrochemical industry bases of China, its overall production
capacity ranking second in the country. Nanjing’s electronics and
information industry is strong in both scientific research and production
and ranks second among all cities in China.
The visit of the delegation comes at the
heels of three delegations sent by Nanjing to the Philippines to promote
sister-city relations with Quezon City: the visits of the Southeast
University of Nanjing, Nanjing Tourism Bureau and the most recent being the
visit of Nanjing CPPCC Vice Chairman Huang Huang. END
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