Summit celebrates sister-city relations
China DailyIt was an occasion to celebrate the personal experiences of the sister-city relationships over the years. Alix Nathan, president of the Portland-Suzhou Sister City Association in Oregon, said at the sixth US-China Sister Cities Summit on Friday in Tacoma, Washington state, that one of the most crucial aspects of the exchanges and relationship with sister city Suzhou, in East China's Jiangsu province, is in education. "For more than 20 years, Portland has been using and working with schools in the US and Suzhou to facilitate reciprocal school-to-school bilateral group programing for students," Nathan told China Daily. "Besides the beautiful country and the delicious food we had, making friends and talking to people was the best part," Izabell Saldana, a 12th grader at Lincoln High School in Tacoma, said of her multicity trip to China last month. Yang Wanming, president of the Chinese People's Association for Friendship with Foreign Countries, told China Daily it will launch a youth exchange program next year, inviting and organizing trips for 1,000 US high school and university students aged 16 to 22 to China.
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