Rome Delegation of NY, USA Visited Longyan

Acting Mayor Mr. Huang Xiaoyan and Mr. James Brown signing memorandum of intent on establishing twin-city relationship (Photo by Huang Jun and Huang Yaohui)

On 19th~20^th November, the Delegation from the City of Rome of New York, USA, headed by Mayor Mr. James F. Brown, visited Longyan City. The other delegate members were: Mr. Michele S. Limb, Executive Chairman of Mayor Committee of Rome, and Ms. Lisa Li Su, Vice Chairman of Rome Economic Development Committee. Acting Mayor Huang Xiaoyan met with the guests last night. The two parts exchanged souvenir and signed a memorandum of intent on establishing twin-city relationship. Standing Vice Mayor Jiang Dizhang was also present at the meeting and signing ceremony.

Mr. Huang Xiaoyan extended his warmest welcome to Mr. James Brown and his companions, and gave a brief introduction to Longyan City. He said that, thanks to the opening-up policy and Longyan s rich resources, Longyan economy and social undertaking had gained sustainable, healthy and rapid development. There would be a huge space and bright prospect for the cooperation between the City of Rome and Longyan in the fields of economy, trade, culture and etc, specifically in the cooperation on teenager education and exchange. He expressed that the exchanges would certainly yield substantial results with the efforts of the two parts.

Mr. James Brown expressed thanks for the city s hospitality and thoughtful arrangements. He said, Longyan is a beautiful city that enjoys beautiful landscape, pleasant climate, hardworking and hospitable people. The major purpose of this visit was to carry out education exchanges. They had had a better understanding of the education in Longyan after communicating with the masters, teachers and lovely students of Longyan University, Longyan No.1 Middle School and etc. He hoped that the peoples especially the youngsters might enhance understanding and the two cities strengthen exchange and cooperation in education.