Chengdu will soon have one more sister city – Australia’s City of Gold Coast.
Chengdu was approved, by voting, to establish a sister-city relationship with the City of Gold Coast, Australia, at the 10th session of the Standing Committee of the 17th Chengdu Municipal People's Congress, which was held on April 25 here in the city.
The Gold Coast is a coastal city in the Australian state of Queensland. With a population of 500,000 in 1,358 square meters, it is the sixth largest city in Australia. And its major industries include tourism, sports, education, television and film, as well as health care.
An official from the Chengdu Municipal Foreign Affairs Office expressed that the two cities, with the help of the sister-city relationship, will further mutual exchanges and cooperation in education, economy and trade, sports, culture, tourism, innovation and entrepreneurship, as well as make more positive contributions to the development of the bilateral relations between China and Australia.
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