Interactions between the two countries in Gangneung City

In the autumn of 1992, the National Symposium on Ancient Costume Culture was held in Jingzhou. A group of foreign friendly celebrities were also invited to participate. South Korea was also invited to send experts to the meeting. After several days of conference discussions and sightseeing visits, Korean experts discovered that the main history, culture, customs and customs of our city are surprisingly similar to Gangneung City, Gangwon Province, and have the same name as Gangneung County in our city. After the meeting, through the matchmaking of this Korean expert, the two cities started friendly exchanges.

At that time, due to the merger of prefectures and cities, zoning changes, until September 1996, Gangneung City, South Korea sent a delegation led by Mr. Quan Chaoying, deputy director of the Municipal Cultural Institute, to our city for an inspection visit and learned about our city. Culture, customs, especially the traditional folk culture related to the Dragon Boat Festival. At the same time, the delegation also introduced various aspects of Gangneung City in detail. Through this visit, the two cities faced so many amazing similarities and strengthened their enthusiasm and belief in developing friendly exchanges between the two sides, thus truly opening up the The two cities have extensive friendly exchange activities starting with historical and cultural exchanges.

In January 1997, at the invitation of the Gangneung City Government of South Korea, our city sent a 6-member friendship delegation headed by Yang Chaoyi, the former deputy secretary-general of the government, to visit the city for the first time. During the delegation's stay in South Korea, The exchange window between the two sides has been formally determined with Gangneung City, and specific matters such as sending personnel to each other for regular visits.

In April 1997, at the invitation of the People's Congress of our city, Mr. Cui Jongmin, Speaker of Jiangling City, led an 8-member friendly delegation to our city for a goodwill visit to discuss culture, sports, folk art exchanges and delegations between the two cities. Mutual visits achieved mutual understanding.

In June 1997, at the invitation of Shim Ki-seop, mayor of Gangneung City, South Korea, Zhang Daoheng, the former mayor of our city, led heads of economic and trade, agriculture, culture and other departments to pay a goodwill visit. The wonderful performance of the Jiangling Tianhe Temple martial arts performance team in our city that visited the city was well received by the citizens. In November of that year, the "Second Asia International Folklore Academic Symposium" was held in Gangneung, South Korea. Our city was invited to send a 3-member delegation composed of academic experts in history, culture and folklore to attend this meeting. We took this opportunity to introduce our city’s long history and culture throughout Asia, and to publicize Jingzhou’s reform, opening up, and economic construction. achievements. At the meeting, he also made an academic speech on the striking similarities in the history, culture, and folk customs of our city and Gangneung City, South Korea, which aroused great excitement among the participants.

In June 1997, May 1998 and June 2000, Gangneung City, South Korea sent a "Folklore Investigation Delegation", a "Local Culture Research Delegation" and a "Folklore Art Troupe" to our city for inspection. access. When we visited, it was the Dragon Boat Festival, a traditional festival in my country. The customs of dragon boat racing and rice dumpling eating during the Dragon Boat Festival in our city left a deep impression on the Korean guests.

In November 1998, Mr. Choi Jong-se, the Speaker of Gangneung City in South Korea, led a delegation to visit our city. They visited the Municipal People’s Congress and the Municipal Government respectively, and visited our city’s museums, Ji Nancheng, Gangneung Middle School and other units and departments. . We held talks with relevant people in our city on deepening and broadening exchanges and cooperation between the two cities in the fields of history, culture, education, tourism, economy and trade, agriculture, etc. and reached an intention to cooperate. In May 1999, at the invitation of Xu Songnan, the former mayor of our city, Shen Qixie, mayor of Gangneung City, South Korea, led a delegation to visit our city. During their stay in Jingzhou, the two sides conducted in-depth discussions on further deepening exchanges and cooperation between the two cities in the fields of history, culture, education, tourism, economy and trade, and agricultural technology, and signed an exchange agreement. In December, a cultural photography delegation headed by Cho Kyu-dun, director of the Gangneung Cultural Center in South Korea, came to our city to hold a photo exhibition of "Folk Customs and Customs of Gangneung, South Korea". Through the pictures, the citizens of our city learned about the folk customs of South Korea's Dragon Boat Festival.

In June and September 1999, at the invitation of the Gangneung City Cultural Institute and the Parliament of South Korea, our city sent a Jingzhou City Folk Art Delegation and a Jingzhou City People’s Congress Friendship Representative Delegation. During his stay in South Korea, through performances, exchanges, visits and other forms, the mutual understanding and friendly relations between the two cities were further deepened.

In July 2000, at the invitation of the Gangneung City Government in South Korea, our city’s agricultural system sent two agricultural trainees to conduct a three-month training in the city. In June of that year, we sent one A civil servant studied in Jiangling Municipal Government for half a year. In early December of the same year, our city also accepted civil servants dispatched by the city and studied Chinese at Yangtze University (Jingzhou Normal University) for half a year, cultivating language talents for the friendly exchanges between the two cities. . In late June 2001, at the invitation of the mayor of Gangneung City, South Korea, a group of 8 people headed by Liu Keyi, Director of the Municipal People's Congress Standing Committee, paid a goodwill visit to Gangneung City and participated in the Gangneung Dragon Boat Festival celebrations. At the same time, the Gangneung Cultural Center also invited 15 members of the city’s cultural and art exchange troupe to perform during the Dragon Boat Festival. The wonderful performances left a deep impression on the hearts of Jiangneung citizens.

In July 2001, at the invitation of the Gangneung City Government of South Korea, our city sent the second batch of two agricultural trainees to conduct training in the city for three months. In August, Wang Chuanfu, president of the Municipal Academy of Agricultural Sciences, and two others went to South Korea at the invitation of Jiangling City to conduct exchanges and negotiations on agricultural technology cooperation, providing a lot of useful intelligence and information for the exchanges between our city and the city in agriculture.

In January 2002, in order to expand exchanges in the field of education and develop friendly relations with Kwandong University in Gangneung, South Korea, Yangtze University (Jingzhou Normal University) sent a four-member educational delegation to visit Gangneung City. During the visit, they exchanged Negotiations were held with Kanto University regarding the exchange of lectures for international students and professors, and achieved complete success. In April of the same year, a professor from the Chinese Department of Yangtze University (Jingzhou Normal University) was invited by Guandong University to give lectures for three months at the school. He was warmly welcomed and made students studying Chinese at the school have an understanding of the subject. Jingzhou aroused great interest, so in August 2002, 38 students from the Chinese Department of the school came to Yangtze University (Jingzhou Normal University) to study Chinese for one year. In order to strengthen cultural exchanges between the two cities, in June 2002, at the invitation of the director of the Municipal Cultural Institute, two historians from our city participated in the International Academic Conference on Korean, Chinese and Japanese Folklore.

On August 31, 2002, a huge typhoon swept across the Korean Peninsula. Gangneung City, located on the east coast, was the most severely affected. After learning the news, our city leaders studied and cared about it many times, and finally sent three people, including Jin Qiong'er, Vice Chairman of the CPPCC Committee, and Wang Zuhua, Director of the Municipal Foreign Affairs and Overseas Chinese Affairs Bureau, to Jiangling City in mid-December to express condolences on behalf of the people of Jingzhou City. , and brought a condolence payment of 100,000 yuan. After the condolence delegation arrived in Jiangling City, the leaders and citizens of Jiangling City were very moved.

In March 2003, Kim Oh-kyung, deputy mayor of Gangneung City, South Korea, led a delegation of 9 people to visit our city. In order to strengthen people-to-people exchanges between the two cities and develop friendly relations between the two cities. Signed a cultural tourism exchange agreement with our city.

In April 2004, our city's mayor Ying Daiming led an investment delegation to visit Gangneung, South Korea. During his stay in Gangneung, senior leaders of the two cities held cordial and friendly talks. Both sides believe that since the two cities began exchanges in 1996, they have carried out extensive exchanges and cooperation and established a solid relationship of trust.

Shim Ki-seop, the mayor of Gangneung City in South Korea, once again proposed that he hopes to establish a sister city relationship with our city and hopes to lead a delegation to visit Jingzhou in September. The mayor of our city, Ying Daiming, readily agreed. In order to further develop friendly people-to-people exchanges between the two cities, in June 2004, at the invitation of Shim Ki-seop, the mayor of Gangneung City, South Korea, our city organized a delegation of 100 friendly citizens to participate in the International Folk Festival held in Gangneung City and divided into 6 points. The troupe held exchanges and discussions with the Gangneung City Council, urban construction, women's associations, medical institutions, taxation, art associations and other departments. The art troupe performed 7 songs and dances to Korean audiences. These activities further deepened the development of friendly relations between the people of the two cities.

In October 2004, 23 people including Gangneung City Mayor Shim Ki-seop and Speaker Choi Jong-ah visited our city. The city has officially signed a sister-city relationship with our city. Jiangling University and Yangtze University in this city have also signed a friendly inter-school relationship agreement, and visited relevant enterprises and units in our city. The friendly relations between the two cities have entered a new stage of development. In September 2005, Zhang Puhua, deputy director of the Municipal People's Congress, led a delegation of 15 people to visit Jiangling City to participate in the celebration of the city's 50th anniversary. They took this opportunity to deepen their contact and understanding with the Jiangling City Council.

At the end of October, Vice Mayor Yang Yuhua led the heads of the Investment Promotion Bureau to visit Jiangling City and held discussions with leaders of the industrial and commercial circles in Jiangling City, hoping that they would invest in Jingzhou. In mid-November, in order to strengthen the exchanges between the calligraphy and painting circles of the two cities, our city organized a 17-member delegation of calligraphers and painters from Jingzhou City, headed by Jiang Renshun, the former deputy director of the Propaganda Department, to visit Jiangling City. The delegation was a self-funded delegation and its purpose It is through the mutual exchanges between calligraphers and painters in the two cities that we can further expand the channels for people-to-people exchanges between the two cities and achieve mutual understanding and common development.

At the end of May and beginning of June 2006, during the Dragon Boat Festival held in Jiangling City, our city’s Propaganda Department organized a publicity and cultural group of 12 people to go to the city for the first time to have friendly exchanges with the cultural department and news media; at the same time, The Municipal Arts Center sent an 18-member performance troupe to the city to perform a friendly performance, which was warmly welcomed by the citizens of the city and further deepened the friendly relations between the two cities.