Published on : Friday, January 4, 2019
“Located on the coast of the North Sea, Hamburg is Germany’s gateway to the world and a bridgehead for Sino-German cooperation to promote the Belt and Road Initiative. Ganzhou, on the other hand, is also an important city in the Belt and Road region, and launched its train service to Hamburg in 2017, opening a new chapter in economic and trade exchanges between the two places,” said Guo Sufang, deputy mayor of Ganzhou.
“I hope that this promotion event will further promote the cooperation between the two cities and the two countries in the tourism industry, so that mutually beneficial and common development will be achieved,” Guo added.
Set up in 1973, the Hamburg China Friendship Association is the oldest of its kind in the city, as per Dr. Jens-Christian Posselt, director of the association. “Both Ganzhou and Hamburg are waterside cities, with the Ganjiang River winding through Ganzhou while Hamburg being a port city and known as the ‘City of Bridges’,” he said. So he brought a Hamburg sailing boat model as a gift to the people of Ganzhou. “May this sailing boat carry the friendship of Ganzhou and Hamburg people and sail afar,” he added.
Tags: Ganzhou City, southeast China