On September 17th to 18th, accompanied by Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi, the visiting President Xi Jinping attended the signing ceremony of the agreement on the establishment of friendship-cities & states/ provinces relations between Guangdong and Gujarat, Guangzhou and Ahmedabad, Shanghai and Mumbai. This is the second batch of friendship-city agreement signed following the signing of the first batch last October. Guangdong and Gujarat is the first friendship-state/province relation between China and India, which highlighting the two sides’ strong desire to strengthen bilateral relations and promote local exchanges.

Mr.Xu Shaohua, Executive Vice Governor of Guangdong and Mr.Varesh Sinha, Chief Secretary of Gujarat signed the Agreement

Mr. Tu Guangshao, Executive Vice Mayor of Shanghai and Mme.Snehal Ambekar, Mayor of Mumbai exchanged the Agreement

Mr. Chen Jianhua, Mayor of Guangzhou and Mr. Thennarasan, Municipal Commissioner of Ahmedabad signed the Agreement