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China's Pingyao Forms Yoke of Friendship with Provins of France

The Xinhua News Agency reported Pingyao city of north China's Shanxi Province signed an accord of friendship ties with Provins of France, as part of the ongoing concluding ceremony of the French Year in China on September 15.

This is the first time the two cities, both listed as cultural heritages by the United Nations Education, Science and Cultural Organization (UNESCO), signed an agreement to forge friendship city ties.

French Culture and Communications Minister Renaud Donnedieu de Vabres said at the signing ceremony that both France and China had a long history with a profound culture. The people of both nations pursue a state-of-art life with abundant creativity and persistent innovation.

He said the friendship ties between Provins and Pingyao fully embodied the Sino-French friendship. The two cities will carry out specific measures to enhance communication and cooperation in the fields of culture and education, economy and trade, agriculture, and tourism and heritage protection especially.

Pingyao was listed as UNESCO's world culture heritage in 1997 for its sound preservation of the urban landscape in China's Ming and Qing imperial dynasties, whereas Province, as a "fossil" witnessing great changes of the European continent from the 11 to 13th century, was also listed as UNESCO's world culture heritage in 2001.