On Sept. 12th, Mr. Xie Yuan had a lunch meeting with the delegation led by Hon. Stephen McNeil, Premier of Nova Scotia of Canada. Mr. Xie welcomed the delegation and introduced our conception of establishing the mechanism for exchanges among local government leaders at provincial level between China and Canada and emphasized that the cooperation of our two countries had great potentiality. Hon. Stephen McNeil expressed that this conception was beneficial to promoting the exchanges among local governments of our two countries and Nova Scotia was willing to work together with CPAFFC to further the relationship among local governments of the two countries. H.E.Mr.Guy Saint-Jacques, Ambassador of Canadian Embassy to China and Mr. Hao Zhongwei, Deputy Director General of Department of American and Oceanian Affairs of CPAFFC were present.