Mr. Song Jingwu, Vice President of the Chinese People’s Association for Friendship with Foreign Countries (CPAFFC) met with Mr. Gérard Collomb, Mayor of municipality of Lyon in France and his delegation, and provided a banquet for them in CPAFFC on May 25.

Vice President Song and Mayor Gérard Collomb had in-depth talks on how to strengthen the exchanges and cooperation of the local governments between China and France. Vice President Song also invited Mayor Gérard Collomb to attend the 5th Top Leaders Forum for Chinese and French Local Governments Cooperation to be held in Chengdu, southwest China’s Sichuan province in October this year. Mayor Gérard Collomb thanked Vice President Song for inviting him and promised to dispatch a deputy mayor who is responsible for the international cooperation to attend the forum.

Mayor Gérard Collomb’s visit in China is to attend the First Cultural Forum between China and France.