Governors from US to reciprocate with visit

BEIJING - A delegation of United States governors will visit China in October to attend a dialogue with their Chinese counterparts as part of the two nations' efforts to promote ties at the local government level.

Xie Yuan, director of the Department of American and Oceanian Affairs at the Chinese People's Association for Friendship with Foreign Countries, said US governors are eager to talk with more Chinese provincial heads and try to bring Chinese business contracts and investment projects back to their individual states.

The visit comes after the first China-US Governors Forum in July in Salt Lake City. Four Chinese provinces, Zhejiang, Anhui, Yunnan and Qinghai, signed at least $3.2 billion worth of agreements on trade, clean energy, education, environmental protection and scientific cooperation with 24 US states during the forum.