Recently, Liaocheng City and Port Vila, the capital of the Republic of Vanuatu, 
held a signing ceremony for friendly cooperative relations with each other.

Li Minggang, Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary of China to the 
Republic of Vanuatu, Chen Baiwei, Deputy Director of the Foreign Affairs Office 
of Shandong Provincial People's Government, Steve Kiel, Mayor of Port Vila, 
Vanuatu, and Zhang Baishun, Deputy Secretary of the Liaocheng City Party 
Committee and Mayor, attended the online signing ceremony and delivered 
speeches respectively. Wang Gang, vice mayor of Liaocheng, presided over the 
signing ceremony.

At the ceremony, a promotional video of Liaocheng City was played, and Zhang 
Baishun and Steve Kiel signed the "City Agreement on Establishing Friendly and 
Cooperative Relations", according to the Information Office of the People's 
Government of Liaocheng.

Liaocheng City is located in the west of Shandong Province, China, with a total 
area of 8,628 square kilometers and a population of 6.5 million, with a long 
history, long water transportation, convenient transportation and complete 
industry, known as "Jiangbei Water City, Canal Ancient Capital" and "Venice of 
the East", with many national city business cards such as national historical 
and cultural city, China's excellent tourist city, national health city and so 
on. The Republic of Vanuatu is located in the west of South Pacific Ocean, and 
is a Melanesian archipelago. As the capital, Port Vila is the "charming 
capital" of the South Pacific, with convenient transportation and rich tourism 
and fishery resources.

The participants unanimously agreed that Liaocheng City and Port Vila City have 
obvious complementary advantages, great cooperation potential and bright 
prospects, and hoped that the two cities will take this signing as an 
opportunity to plan to establish a more all-round sister-city relationship and 
push the cooperation between the two places to a new height.

Source: Information Office of the People's Government of Liaocheng

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