International family gains more members

Guangzhou is seeking to establish more sister and friendly city relationships to strengthen international exchanges with cities related to the Belt and Road.

Its new friends in the past couple of years include Rabat of Morocco, Pokhara of Nepal, Lodz of Poland, Mombasa of Kenya and Prague of the Czech Republic.

Liu Baochun, director general at the foreign affairs office of the Guangzhou city government, said the city has 36 sister cities in 33 countries, as well as 29 friendly cities in 24 countries, including those related to the Belt and Road.