Li Xiaolin,  President of the Chinese People’s Association for Friendship with Foreign Countries(CPAFFC) attended the opening ceremony of 2013 City Infrastructure Forum which was held in Chongqing,China and delivered a speech On September 9, 2013.

In her speech, President Li introduced the history, function of the CPAFFC and the work of the international friendship cities to over 150 representatives from 14 countries. She pointed out that this forum was an important cooperation between the UCLG ASPAC and China member cities, and also hoped that city representatives, experts and scholars from China and other countries would be able to take advantage of the important platform to communicate thoroughly, discuss the urbanization experiences and share the urbanization achievements.

2013 City Infrastructure Forum was sponsored jointly by CPAFFC, UCLG ASPAC, Chongqing Municipal Government and “ City Today” magazine. The forum is a new initiative with purpose of searching out an optimized plan for the urbanization through the pragmatic dialogue among cities, central governments, local government associations, united nations organizations and enterprises in the world so as to resolve the problems in rapid development of the urbanization.

Huang Qifan, Mayor of the Chongqing, Jatin Modi, President of the UCLG ASPAC and others attended the opening ceremony and delivered speeches respectively.