Qingdao is working hard for creating the top-ranking international sailing week.On June 19th, Xiageng, the vice-secretary of Qingdao Municipal Committee and the Mayor of Qingdao, accepted the local media’s interview in Kiel, Germany. He said that Qingdao had a good cooperative relationship with Kiel and both sides could enlarge areas of cooperation from sports to economic, education, culture.

The cooperation between Qingdao and Kiel can be extended

When it comes to talking about the cooperation with Kiel, Xiageng remarked that the cooperation between Qingdao and Kiel began after Qingdao won the right to host the sailing events of the Beijing 2008 Olympic Games. The government and sailing circles of Kiel gave great help to Qingdao.

In response to “Whether the cooperation between Qingdao and Kiel will extend from sailing”, Xiageng said that Qingdao began our relationship with Kiel in sailing. In the future, both sides will strengthen cooperation in technology, education and other aspects.

Qingdao is aimed at building first-class sailing week

The sailing week has become an important platform for national cultural exchange. Compared with one hundred years’ history of Kiel Sailing Week, Qingdao Sailing Week began less than ten years. After years of development, Kiel Sailing Week is very mature, but Qingdao Sailing Week is still on its primary stage. Qingdao hopes to seize the historic opportunity of Olympic Sailing Games to build Qingdao Sailing Week and shape our own brand.

By Yu Meng and Liu Nengzhou