Jinan’s International Circle of Friends

Recently, the 2023 World Cities Forum and Regional Leaders’ Summit was held in Jinan, with guests from more than 30 countries and regions gathering in the Spring City to discuss friendship and cooperation. For Jinan, the city’s “international circle of friends” continues to expand and has reached every continent. Today’s Jinan is definitely called “friends all over the world”.

The 2023 World Cities Forum and Regional Leaders’ Summit [Photo via Jinan International Communication Center]

The expansion of the international circle of friends has brought many overseas friends to Jinan, even though they are far away, and has provided more “outlets” for promoting the city’s image. For a long time, Jinan and a group of international friendship cities have actively carried out various cultural exchange activities, and the city’s visibility and international influence have continued to increase as a result. For Jinan, the more open it is, the more it develops, but the benefits of strengthening the international circle of friends go far beyond that.

Jinan has established friendly city relationships or cooperative city relationships with more and more overseas cities, and the number of sister cities in Jinan is constantly increasing. As of September 19th this year, Jinan has established friendly relationships with 86 cities in 47 countries, including 29 cities in 26 countries and 57 cities in 32 countries. Jinan’s sister city network covers five continents.

As a provincial capital, Jinan is constantly working to attract and develop through the power of friendship cities. The more open it is, the more it will develop. In recent years, Jinan has achieved new achievements in external exchanges and cooperation: more and more high-quality overseas projects are landing in Jinan, and cooperation between the two sides is rapidly reaching fruition, bringing new vitality and momentum to development. If we regard the enhancement of a city’s reputation and influence through the international circle of friends as the “external honor” gained from Jinan’s extensive friendship with cities around the world, then using the opportunity of friendly city cooperation and injecting a continuous stream of new momentum through win-win cooperation to accelerate high-quality development is the “internal strength” that Jinan has gained in the process of continuously cultivating friendship city resources.

(Source:Jinan International Communication Center)