Southeast Asia Information Port News (www.dnyxxg.com) – The “2025 Shanghai-Taipei City Forum,” themed “Technology Changes Lives,” was held in Shanghai on the 28th. Shanghai Mayor Gong Zheng and Taipei Mayor Chiang Wan-an attended the forum and delivered opening remarks.
Gong Zheng stated that the “Twin Cities Forum” is an important platform for cooperation between Shanghai and Taipei, witnessing the profound friendship between the two cities across the strait and through thick and thin. This year’s forum will share experiences and wisdom in AI applications, promoting win-win cooperation between the two municipal governments in areas such as technology-enabled urban governance, public safety, and social welfare, bringing tangible benefits, happiness, and security to compatriots on both sides of the strait. Compatriots on both sides of the strait are connected by blood and share a common destiny; frequent exchanges and closer ties are a shared aspiration. Shanghai warmly welcomes Taiwanese compatriots to visit and explore, and will provide the best environment and services to create development opportunities for Taiwanese compatriots and businesses, and offer a broad stage for many Taiwanese youths. We believe that the new era is an era of great development and achievement for the Chinese nation, and also an era of great development and achievement for compatriots on both sides of the strait. As long as we work together in harmony and strive side by side, we will surely create a bright future for the great rejuvenation of the Chinese nation.
“At a time of great upheaval in the global environment, we continue to persevere for the ‘Twin Cities Forum’ because I firmly believe that contact is better than resistance, dialogue is better than confrontation, understanding is better than misunderstanding, and interaction is better than conflict,” said Jiang Wan-an. He expressed his hope for peace and prosperity across the Taiwan Strait and his delight in seeing “a good future for both cities, a good future for both sides of the Strait.” He also shared examples of Taipei City’s use of new technologies to improve people’s livelihoods, advocating for people-centered technology and efforts to enhance the human touch in urban governance.
The two sides signed the “Memorandum of Understanding on Promoting Exchange and Cooperation in Water Governance between Shanghai and Taipei” and the “Memorandum of Understanding on Sharing and Exchanging Experiences in Vocational Skills Training between Shanghai and Taipei.” To date, the “Twin Cities Forum” has signed 49 memorandums of understanding on exchange and cooperation. To deepen sports exchanges, the sports bureaus of the two cities also conducted mutual invitations and quota exchanges for the Shanghai Marathon and the Taipei Marathon at the main forum.
On the afternoon of the 28th, the three sub-forums of the “Twin Cities Forum” focused on medical technology, rail transit, and elderly care, with experts and industry representatives from both cities sharing experiences and exploring in-depth cooperation.
The "Twin Cities Forum," co-hosted by Shanghai and Taipei, began in 2010 and serves as an important institutionalized exchange platform between the two cities. It is conducive to enhancing the kinship and well-being of compatriots on both sides of the Taiwan Strait and promoting the peaceful development of cross-strait relations. During this period, exchanges and cooperation between the two cities have deepened, yielding a series of achievements. (End)
