{"id":29331,"date":"2025-08-03T19:56:56","date_gmt":"2025-08-03T19:56:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.hotelsalepage.com\/feed\/cision-pr-newswire\/hzicc-hangzhou-weaves-global-bonds-through-sister-cities\/"},"modified":"2025-08-03T19:56:56","modified_gmt":"2025-08-03T19:56:56","slug":"hzicc-hangzhou-weaves-global-bonds-through-sister-cities","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thaipropertynews.com\/feeds\/?p=29331","title":{"rendered":"HZICC: Hangzhou weaves global bonds through sister cities"},"content":{"rendered":"

HANGZHOU, China<\/span><\/span>, Aug. 3, 2025<\/span><\/span> \/PRNewswire\/ — Three-year-old\u00a0Yu Shuya of Hangzhou<\/span> proudly donned his Brazil<\/span> jersey to greet 42-year-old Brazilian lawyer and rising political star, Renato de Almeida Freitas Junior<\/span>. The excited boy instantly liked his first-time visitor over football. Deeply touched by this genuine warmth, Renato said later, “Hangzhou<\/span> residents are just as hospitable as Brazilians!”<\/p>\n

Talking about Hangzhou’s<\/span> sister-city ties with Curitiba since 2001, Renato expressed full confidence that football could bring the cities closer. He envisioned joint grassroots training programs for coaches, players or youth teams.<\/p>\n

Hangzhou’s<\/span> global network thrives, maintaining 31 sister-city relationships and exchanging with 46 friendship cities across five continents as of July, 2025.<\/p>\n

Hangzhou International Communication Center (HZICC) has been leveraging these ties to foster people-to-people exchanges. Its “A Tale of Two Cities” series features in-depth dialogues between Hangzhou<\/span> residents and their counterparts from sister cities worldwide. Participants include Boston<\/span> marathoners sharing sports stories, Bangkok<\/span> conductors discussing music’s global dimensions, and New Zealand’s<\/span> Queenstown tourism experts exploring collaborative travel models.<\/p>\n

When Italian documentary filmmaker Leonardo Cinieri Lombroso<\/span> met Hangzhou<\/span>-based producer Gu Jiafeng, their conversation spanned from careers to connections, revealing how many shared traits are hidden between Verona and Hangzhou<\/span>, two culturally rich cities. For teachers and students from Rockwell College and Hangzhou High School Qiantang, they found it fantastic to join Neil Charles Clarke<\/span>, CEO of Ireland China Culture and Education Center, to start a dialogue on educational innovation and cultural exchange in digital age between Hangzhou<\/span> and Cork.<\/p>\n

Four young British young men discussed future cities and entrepreneurship as the tie between Hangzhou<\/span> and Leeds<\/span> goes closer. Max Wheatley<\/span>, student of SOAS University of London<\/span>, said at the end of the round-table dialogue:”A similarity between two people might be enough to cause initial connection and then the difference might be what actually become the enjoyable thing that solidifies the friendship.”<\/p>\n

In April 2025<\/span>, Ni\u0161, Republic of Serbia and Hangzhou<\/span> signed a memorandum for friendly cooperation. HZICC brought city promos and citizen greetings to Serbia, where locals eagerly shared their China<\/span> connections \u2013 including a Red Star Belgrade<\/span> museum curator and an elderly lotus enthusiast who left a heartfelt message “Friendship lasts forever”. Ahead of the 10th anniversary of city friendship with Istanbul<\/span>, HZICC engaged prominent Turkish archaeologists including Nezih Ba\u015fgelen and Murat Sav<\/span> who showed keen interest in Hangzhou’s<\/span> Liangzhu Civilization with a commemorative G\u00f6bekli Tepe pottery carving.<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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HANGZHOU, China<\/span><\/span>, Aug. 3, 2025<\/span><\/span> \/PRNewswire\/ — Three-year-old\u00a0Yu Shuya of Hangzhou<\/span> proudly donned his Brazil<\/span> jersey to greet 42-year-old Brazilian lawyer and rising political star, Renato de Almeida Freitas Junior<\/span>. The excited boy instantly liked his first-time visitor over football. Deeply touched by this genuine warmth, Renato said later, “Hangzhou<\/span> residents are just as hospitable as Brazilians!”<\/p>\n

Talking about Hangzhou’s<\/span> sister-city ties with Curitiba since 2001, Renato expressed full confidence that football could bring the cities closer. He envisioned joint grassroots training programs for coaches, players or youth teams.<\/p>\n

Hangzhou’s<\/span> global network thrives, maintaining 31 sister-city relationships and exchanging with 46 friendship cities across five continents as of July, 2025.<\/p>\n

Hangzhou International Communication Center (HZICC) has been leveraging these ties to foster people-to-people exchanges. Its “A Tale of Two Cities” series features in-depth dialogues between Hangzhou<\/span> residents and their counterparts from sister cities worldwide. Participants include Boston<\/span> marathoners sharing sports stories, Bangkok<\/span> conductors discussing music’s global dimensions, and New Zealand’s<\/span> Queenstown tourism experts exploring collaborative travel models.<\/p>\n

When Italian documentary filmmaker Leonardo Cinieri Lombroso<\/span> met Hangzhou<\/span>-based producer Gu Jiafeng, their conversation spanned from careers to connections, revealing how many shared traits are hidden between Verona and Hangzhou<\/span>, two culturally rich cities. For teachers and students from Rockwell College and Hangzhou High School Qiantang, they found it fantastic to join Neil Charles Clarke<\/span>, CEO of Ireland China Culture and Education Center, to start a dialogue on educational innovation and cultural exchange in digital age between Hangzhou<\/span> and Cork.<\/p>\n

Four young British young men discussed future cities and entrepreneurship as the tie between Hangzhou<\/span> and Leeds<\/span> goes closer. Max Wheatley<\/span>, student of SOAS University of London<\/span>, said at the end of the round-table dialogue:”A similarity between two people might be enough to cause initial connection and then the difference might be what actually become the enjoyable thing that solidifies the friendship.”<\/p>\n

In April 2025<\/span>, Ni\u0161, Republic of Serbia and Hangzhou<\/span> signed a memorandum for friendly cooperation. HZICC brought city promos and citizen greetings to Serbia, where locals eagerly shared their China<\/span> connections \u2013 including a Red Star Belgrade<\/span> museum curator and an elderly lotus enthusiast who left a heartfelt message “Friendship lasts forever”. Ahead of the 10th anniversary of city friendship with Istanbul<\/span>, HZICC engaged prominent Turkish archaeologists including Nezih Ba\u015fgelen and Murat Sav<\/span> who showed keen interest in Hangzhou’s<\/span> Liangzhu Civilization with a commemorative G\u00f6bekli Tepe pottery carving.<\/p>\n

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