Zhangjiajie and Kouvola, Finland Sign Sister Cities Memorandum

Rednet.cn Zhangjiajie, News of October 11 (Reporter: Zhang Yaxin) - October 11 local time, Yu Huaimin, Party Secretary and Executive Deputy Director of the Standing Committee of the People’s Congress of Zhangjiajie, led a delegation on an invitation to visit Kouvola, Finland. The guest and host parties furthered their communication in tourism city management, tourism market development, ecological environment protection and so on. Subsequently, the two cities signed the sister cities memorandum.

Located in the southeast of Finland, Kouvola is the most important railway hub city in Finland. It not only serves as an important entrance for China to trade in the five nations of Northern Europe and Russia’s European region, but it is also a railway freight distribution center between the European Union, and Russia, China, South Korea and other nations. The city, functioning as one of the important hubs for the trade between Europe and Asia, is a logistics center city in Northern Europe.

Yu Huaimin introduced the situation of Zhangjiajie as well as its tourism development. Yu Huaimin says that Zhangjiajie has been in good relations with Kouvola. The two cities have dispatched personnel to visit each other and conduct communication before, and established meaningful friendships. As one of the representative cities of Finland, Kouvola shares many common interests with Zhangjiajie in ecology, tourism, environmental protection and other aspects. Meanwhile, Kouvola also has lots of advantages that Zhangjiajie should learn from. He hopes that Kouvola and Zhangjiajie can further their communication and cooperation, and has also sincerely invited the Municipal Government of the City of Kouvola to lead a delegation to visit Zhangjiajie.

Ms. Vainio Kirsi, Development Director, Tourism at Kouvola, expressed her warm welcome of the Zhangjiajie delegation. After carefully watching the promotional film of Zhangjiajie, she said that Zhangjiajie was a beautiful place, and she strongly wished to visit Zhangjiajie. She also hoped that more and more Kouvola tourists could visit Zhangjiajie to strengthen the contact and push forward the cooperation.

Later, commissioned by the Municipal Government of the City of Kouvola, Ms. Vainio Kirsi and Yu Huaimin jointly signed the sister cities memorandum.

[Author: Zhang Yaxin]

[Editor: Qin Yaqian]

Note: The article was submitted by Zhangjiajie.