The delegation was headed by Mr. PU Jicheng, head of the people's Government of Liangping district of Chongqing.
Reference: This year, the people's Government of Chongqing co-organized the St. Petersburg festival "Chinese New year-a merry holiday of spring".
As part of the business part of the program, on February 19 and 20, 2019, the delegation met with the leadership of the relevant committees of the Administration of St. Petersburg: The Deputy Chairman of the Committee for external relations of St. Petersburg Arby Abubakarov, Chairman of the Committee for tourism development of St. Petersburg Evgeny Pankevich and Chairman of the Committee for culture of St. Petersburg Konstantin Sukhenko. Negotiations were also held with representatives of St. Petersburg companies: General Director of JSC "Sredne-Nevsky shipbuilding plant" Vladimir Seredka, representatives of open company "Air gate of Northern capital" and JSC "Saint-Petersburg Agency of medical tourism".
During the meetings they discussed the issues of establishing regular direct flights between St. Petersburg and Chongqing, the participation of Chongqing companies in investment projects in St. Petersburg, tours of creative teams and joint exhibitions, as well as the development of cooperation in the field of medical tourism.
In addition, they discussed the preparation of the visit of the delegation of St. Petersburg to Chongqing in April this year and the signing of a bilateral agreement on cooperation.
During the meeting with the General Director of JSC "Sredne-Nevsky shipyard" V. A. Seredokho, the products of the plant were presented to the Chongqing side. In particular, for the needs of cruise tourism in Chongqing offered catamarans of large capacity, as well as small and large cruise ships.
The Chinese side expressed its readiness to consider the proposals of The Central Nevsky shipyard and took the initiative to organize a separate industry program for the plant management within the framework of the visit of the delegation of St. Petersburg to Chongqing. After getting acquainted with the real conditions, the parties will be able to jointly develop technical characteristics, in accordance with which it will be possible to start the creation of catamarans and cruise ships.
The evening of 19 February, on the occasion of the lantern festival Ansaetze (the last day of Chinese New year celebration, the 15th day of the New year according to the lunar calendar. By tradition, on this day the whole family gathers for the preparation of rice balls "yuansyao", symbolizing the unity of the family) in the Russian-Chinese business Park held a cultural program "Picturesque city in the mountains and rivers."
The programme was organized a photo exhibition of Chongqing, conducted master classes on modeling rice balls "Warsaw", drawing on the bamboo and the creation of new year woodcut paintings "nianhua", made by artists from St. Petersburg and the city of Chongqing held a lottery with valuable prizes.
Vladimir Zapevalov, Representative of the Russian foreign Ministry in St. Petersburg, Mrs. Guo min, Consul General of China in St. Petersburg, and Arbi Abubakarov, Deputy Chairman of the Committee for external relations of St. Petersburg, were the guests of honor of the event.
The final event of the Chinese New year in St. Petersburg was organized by the Government of St. Petersburg together with the people's Government of Chongqing and with the support of the Chinese Consulate General in St. Petersburg.
Reference:
In 2019, the events of the Chinese New year in St. Petersburg were held for the fifth time.
Events of the Chinese New year on the basis of educational institutions of St. Petersburg will be held until February 22, 2019.