After three years of preparations and construction, the Chengdu Hamilton Luxelakes School and Chengdu Hamilton Luxelakes Kindergarten were put into operation and open to students on September 1. Messrs. Stephen Wong, Consul General of the Consulate-General of New Zealand in Chengdu, Don Klinger, Vice President of the University of Waikato, New Zealand, and Niu Qingbao, Deputy Mayor of the Chengdu Municipal People's Government, attend the opening ceremony of the schools, a cooperation between Chengdu and Hamilton.

Chengdu established a sister-city tie with Hamilton in May 2015, and inked an agreement with it in 2016, to co-establish an elementary school and a kindergarten here in the city in 2016. "The sister-city relationship has brought new opportunities to and injected more vitality into the mutual exchanges in international education between the two cities. And the two co-built schools will give fresh impetus to the mutual relations," said an official from the Chengdu Municipal Government's Foreign Affairs Office, adding that "The schools will serve as a tie of friendship between the people of both cities, and offer Chengdu citizens greater access to the educational and cultural resources of New Zealand."