From 19 to 20 October, Yancheng’s Party and government delegation of our city paid a study and inspection visit to Tongchuan City, Shaanxi Province. The visit aims to thoroughly implement General Secretary Xi Jinping’s important instructions on conducting regular East-West collaboration, earnestly follow the latest requirements for paired cooperation between Jiangsu and Shaanxi Provinces, expand cooperation space, strengthen two-way empowerment, and push Yancheng-Tongchuan paired collaboration to new heights on the new journey. Yan Hanping, Secretary of the CPC Yancheng Municipal Party Committee, and Hao Guangyao, Secretary of the CPC Tongchuan Municipal Party Committee, attended the joint meeting on Yancheng-Tongchuan Collaboration and Economic Cooperation. Liu Hao, Deputy Secretary of the CPC Yancheng Municipal Party Committee presided over the meeting.

At the meeting, on behalf of the Yancheng Municipal Party Committee and the Municipal People’s Government, Yan Hanping expressed gratitude to Tongchuan for its long-standing strong support for Yancheng’s development and its care for Yancheng’s cadres and professionals assigned to assist Tongchuan. He noted that Yancheng and Tongchuan have forged ahead along a decade-long path of paired collaboration, with steadily improved quality and effectiveness of cooperation across all fields. This study tour in Shaanxi has allowed the delegation to witness firsthand new momentum and changes in Tongchuan’s development, and many of its ideas and practices are worthy of learning and drawing upon.

On behalf of the Tongchuan Municipal Party Committee and the Municipal People’s Government, Hao Guangyao welcomed the arrival of Yancheng’s Party and government delegation and thanked Yancheng for its consistent, generous assistance and support. He remarked that from poverty alleviation collaboration to economic cooperation, Yancheng has offered wholehearted support, built bridges for exchanges and shared expertise to empower growth. The two cities have forged profound friendship and yielded fruitful outcomes through joint cooperation.