Today, Commissioner for Cohesion and Reforms Elisa Ferreira signed a 5-year action plan with China to deepen EU-China regional policy cooperation.
- 23 September 2024
The signature ceremony took place in Beijing during the EU-China High-Level Regional Policy Dialogue with the Vice-Chairman of the National Development and Reform Commission (NDRC) of China, Guo Lanfeng.
The action plan proposes to enhance exchange of knowledge and experience on regional and urban policies through regular high-level dialogues and seminars, capacity building activities and joint studies as well as strengthened cooperation between European and Chinese cities and regions. This cooperation aims to identify policies and tools that can help to respond to common economic, social and environmental challenges, namely through a new phase of the EU's International Urban and Regional Cooperation (IURC) programme including peer-level exchange and networking.
Commissioner Ferreira is in a two-day visit to China to discuss cooperation between the EU and China in the area of regional and urban policy and ways to ensure strengthened cooperation in the future. This builds on a long-standing dialogue, established in 2006, between the EU and China on regional policy.
On Tuesday, Commissioner Ferreira will travel to Tianjin to meet with representatives of the Tianjin Municipal Government.
The long-standing EU-China dialogue on regional policy has provided networking opportunities and enabled the establishment of partnerships between respective regional and urban authorities and in pooling international policy experience, including on concrete projects, for the benefit of cities and regions on both sides.