Tapping more local potential

Cooperation and exchanges between China's provinces and US states and cities lay foundation for progress of relations

Under the co-sponsorship of the Chinese People's Association for Friendship with Foreign Countries and the United States National Governors Association, the first China-US Governors Forum is due to be convened in Salt Lake City, in the state of Utah in the US on Friday.

Officials from Zhejiang, Anhui, Yunnan and Qinghai provinces will lead delegations and exchange views with more than 40 US governors on a wide variety of topics, ranging from trade, investment and energy to environment and people-to-people exchanges.