On April 26-29 a delegation from St. Petersburg headed by Vice Governor of St. Petersburg Sergey Movchan visited Shanghai (China).
On April 26-29 a delegation from St. Petersburg headed by Vice Governor of St. Petersburg Sergey Movchan visited Shanghai (China).
The delegation featured Chairman of the Committee for Entrepreneurship and Consumer Market Development Elgis Kachaev, general director of JSC “Pulkovo Airport” Rostislav Chernyshev, and representatives of St. Petersburg executive governmental agencies.
Negotiations with heads of the People’s Government of Shanghai, Hongqiao Economic and Technological Development Zone, Shanghai (experimental) Free Trade Zone, the Zhangjiang Hi-Tech Park as well as the National Exhibition Center (Shanghai) were held during the visit. Members of the delegation got acquainted with the local experience of creating and operating special economic and free trade zones existing on the territory of Shanghai.
Also one of the focal events of the visit was opening of the St. Petersburg- Shanghai exhibition “Remember History, Preserve Peace” timed to the commemoration of the 70th anniversary of the Victory Day.
The exposition, brought to China from the banks of the Neva, included documentary records of the “blockade” (siege) of our city: photographs taken by war correspondents, works by professional painters and testimonies given by children-citizens of the blockaded Leningrad. This event aroused great interest and was widely covered by the Shanghai mass media.
Background information:
The first official contact between St. Petersburg and Shanghai dates back to the middle of the 20th century. An agreement on partner relations between our cities was signed in 1988.
On September 5, 2013 Georgy Sergeevich Poltavchenko and Yan Sun signed an Agreement on Cooperation between the Administration of St. Petersburg (Russian Federation) and the People’s Government of Shanghai (The People’s Republic of China); the agreement was signed within the framework of the “G-20 summit” in the Konstantin (Constantine) Palace in the presence of the heads of the Russian Federation and the People’s Republic of China.