Mr. Song Jingwu, Vice President of the Chinese People’s Association for Friendship with Foreign Countries (CPAFFC), met with the visiting Mr. Grégoire Junod, Mayor of Lausanne, Switzerland on September 20, 2018.
Grégoire Junod said, Lausanne is recognized as the Olympic Capital and also is one of the founding cities of the World union of Olympic Cities(WUOC). Beijing, Qingdao, Qinhuangdao and Nanjing, these Chinese cities, are all the members of WUOC. He hoped that in future, Lausanne could develop more exchanges and cooperation with Chinese cities in the fields of sustainable urban development being promoted by Olympics and sports.
Vice President Song Jingwu made an introduction about the results achieved by CPAFFC in the fields of people-to-people diplomacy, public diplomacy and local diplomacy, and encouraged Lausanne to actively take part in the local pragmatic cooperation between China and Switzerland.
Mme. Zhang Ruoning, Deputy Director General of Department of European and Asian Affairs of CPAFFC, attended the meeting.
