SOLO - The Solo City Government, Central Java, is collaborating with the Chinese Government, specifically with the City of Xi'an, Shaanxi Province, to work on the construction of the two cities' sister cities.
Mayor Gibran Rakabuming Raka said the cooperation program had been established for a long time, even before he served as mayor, but had stopped in the middle of the road.
"Actually, it's been a long time, just follow up. Xi'an is the same as Solo. Later (the explanation) when I follow up," said Gibran after receiving a visit from the Chinese Ambassador to Indonesia Lu Kang in Surakarta, Antara, Friday, May 12.
Meanwhile, Lu Kang said his visit to Solo could not be separated from the good relations between the two leaders of the country, Indonesia and China.
According to him, Indonesia and China are two countries that have good bilateral relations. He said Chinese President Xi Jin Ping and Indonesian President Joko Widodo had good relations.
"This is the first time for me to visit Solo and we are impressed with Solo. The city is explained by Mas Gibran as a small but very comfortable city," said Lu Kang.
He assessed that the City of Surakarta has potential resources to become a cooperation project, one of which is a sister city with the City of Xi'an, because both are cities that are thick with culture. He added that currently the cooperation is in the stage of a memorandum of understanding.
"Later it will be followed up. Second, later the cooperation will be established in the tourism sector," he said.
Sister city is a cooperative relationship between two city government areas in two countries that have geographical, administrative and political differences. The cooperation between the two cities aims to establish social and cultural relations between the two cities.
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