2016国际友好城市特别贡献奖

2016国际友好城市特别贡献奖

获奖城市：重庆

获奖理由：

发挥友城支点作用，服务“一带一路”建设

中俄两河流域合作签署会议纪要。 摄影：谭舒

重庆是中国中西部地区唯一的直辖市，处在“一带一路”和长江经济带的联接点上。

2011年1月，渝新欧中欧班列正式开通运行，全程11000公里。渝新欧国际铁路联运大通道是重庆对外开放建设的重要创举，也是丝绸之路经济带建设的重要支撑和先行者。2014年3月，国家主席习近平访问德国期间专程赴杜伊斯堡火车站亲自迎接渝新欧班列到站。

为有效服务和促进作为“丝绸之路经济带”重要载体的渝新欧中欧班列建设，重庆市提出了打造渝新欧友好城市带的设想。为此，重庆市外事部门先后成功加入了中国—中东欧国家合作、中国长江中上游地区和俄罗斯伏尔加河沿岸联邦区合作（以下简称“中俄两河流域合作”）、中国—中东欧国家省州长联合会等国家级机制，并在重庆成功举办了首届中国—中东欧国家地方领导人会议、中俄两河流域合作工作组第一次全体会议、亚欧互联互通产业对话会等大型国际多边、双边国际会议。重庆还先后派团出席了上述机制下在中东欧地区、俄罗斯和国内其他省市举办的系列大型会议会展等活动。

中东欧国家是“一带一路”辐射的重点区域之一。目前，重庆市已与中东欧地区国家建立地方城市友好关系达13对。在“渝新欧”沿线，重庆市与哈萨克斯坦的阿拉木图市，俄罗斯的沃罗涅日市、奥伦堡州、萨马拉州、巴什科尔托斯坦共和国等10多个州市（共和国），白俄罗斯的明斯克州，波兰的克拉科夫，德国的杜塞尔多夫、杜伊斯堡，比利时的安特卫普省等建立了友好城市关系或友好交流关系，并开展了丰富多彩的交流合作活动。比如，重庆大学与友城安特卫普省在重庆共建物流学院，为我市培养紧缺的物流专门人才；重庆市与杜塞尔多夫和杜伊斯堡联合签署渝新欧物流运输合作协议；以友城杜塞尔多夫为基点，将友好关系扩展到杜伊斯堡和整个北威州地区，在友城杜塞尔多夫开设渝新欧联络处基础上，通过举办多项交流活动助推“渝新欧”。同时，在重庆成功举办了“一带一路”暨渝新欧班列建设与中亚地区合作研讨会。重庆市已连续4次派团参加在友城杜塞尔多夫举办的中国节活动。为配合国家总体外交，重庆市还积极利用与杜塞尔多夫业已建立的友城关系，支持中国驻杜塞尔多夫总领馆建馆工作，受到外交部和杜塞尔多夫市政府的高度赞誉。

实践证明，重庆的国际友城工作大有可为。

Winner city: Chongqing

Award reasons:

Playing the role of sister city fulcrum, serving the construction of One Belt and One Road

Chongqing,located in the connecting point of“One Belt and One Road”and the Yangtze River Economic Zone, is the only municipality in central and western China.

In January, 2011, China Railway Express of Chongqing-Xinjiang-Europe was officially opened, with the whole course being 11,000 kilometers. Chongqing-Xinjiang-Europe International Railway is an important initiative of Chongqing opening to the outside; it is also an vital support and pioneer for the construction of the new silkroad economic belt.In March, 2014, during President Xi Jinping paid a visit to Germany, he came all the way to Duisburg railway station to welcome Chongqing-Xinjiang-Europe train to arrive at the station.

In order to effectively serve and promote the construction of China Railway Express of Chongqing-Xinjiang-Europe,the important carrier silkroad economic belt, Chongqing Municipality put forward the idea of building the Chongqing- Xinjiang-Europe sister city belt. So Chongqing Foreign Affairs Department has successfully joined the China-CEEC cooperation, middle and upper reaches of Chinese Yangtze River and the coastal region of Russia Volga River Cooperation (referred to as: Sino-Russian Two Rivers Cooperation), China-CEEC Association of Governors of Provinces and Regions. Chongqing held the fi rst local leaders’ meeting of China and central and eastern European Countries,the firs working group plenary meeting of Sino-Russian two rivers cooperation,ASEM Industry Dialogue on Connectivity and other internationally large-scale bilateral and multilateral meetings. Chongqing also assigned delegation to attend large-scale meetings and exhibitions held in CEEC, Russia and other provinces of China under the mechanism described above.

CEEC are one of the major areas that One Belt and One Road covers.Currently, Chongqing has established 13 pair of local friendly relationship with CEEC. Along the Chongqing-Xjinjiang-Europe railway, Chongqing has established sister cities or friendly communication relationship with more than 10 states and cities including Almaty of Kazakhstan, Russia's Voronezh City, Orenburg, Samara, Bashkortostan Republic,Minsk of Belarus, Cracow Düsseldorf of Poland, Duisburgof Germany, Duisburg, Antwerp Province of Belgium. It also held lots of activities of exchange and cooperation. For example, Chongqing established logistics college with its sister city Antwerp Province in Chongqing to cultivate the specialized logistics talents that Chongqing lack. Chongqing signed Chongqing-Xinjiang-Europe Logistics Transportation Cooperation Agreement with Düsseldorf and Duisburg; based on its sister city Düsseldorf, Chongqing expanded this friendly relationship to Duisburg and the whole North Rhine-Westphalia region. It also booster Chongqing-Xinjiang-Europe by holding many exchange activities and on the basis of setting up Chongqing-Xinjiang-Europe connection offi ce. Meanwhile, Chongqing held One Road and One Belt and Construction of Chongqing-Xinjiang-Europe International Railway Line and Central Asia Cooperation Seminar. Chongqing has sent delegations for four times to attend Chinese festival activities held in sister city Dusseldorf. In order to coordinate with the overall diplomacy of our country,Chongqing took advantage of the sister city relationship with Dusseldorf to support the construction of consulate of Chinese Embassy in Dusseldorf, which was highly praised by the Ministry of Foreign Affairs and government of Dusseldorf City.

Practice has proved that Chongqing's international sister city work is promising.

The Award to Friendship Cities for Special Contribution 2016