CIIC Signed a Cooperation Framework Agreement on the

Development and Building of the Yellow River Cultural

Park Program with Weinan Municipal Government


From August 27 to 29, under the invitation of CIIC, Cao Lili, the mayor of Weinan Municipal Government, along with the municipal delegation arrived in Beijing, and held deep talks on the development of the Yellow River Cultural Park Program with CIIC. The two parties reached wide common ground, and signed "the Cooperation Framework Agreement on the Development and Building of 'the Yellow River Cultural Park Program'".

Weinan municipal government paid great attention to the talk about the Yellow River Cultural Park Program with CIIC. The chief leaders from the municipal departments such as the development and restructuring committee, planning bureau, travel bureau, environmental protection bureau, and financial administration and so on also attended the talk besides Mayor Cao Lili and Tian Changjun, the executive vice-mayor. Liu Xinwen, the secretary of the Weinan Municipal Committee, participated in part of the talks and made instructions in details by means of the gap before going abroad to conduct a study. Tian Geng, the president assistant of BIIP, and Tian Zhenxing, the vice general manager, conducted the negotiation with the delegation of Weinan Municipal Government on behalf of CIIC.

During the negotiation, many political leaders both domestic and overseas attached great importance to the talk about the development and building of the Yellow River Cultural Park between CIIC and Weinan Municipal Government. He Yafei, the minister assistant of Foreign Affairs, met Mayor Cao and her delegation, and Ma Zhengang, the president of China's Institute of International Studies, and Zhang Hongxi, the president of World Affairs Press, presented the work dinner. Sun Gonglin, the secretary general of China Society for Promotion of the Guangcai Program, and Fu Zhongshi, the minister of Program Department, took part in the talk and the signing ceremony. Neil Bush, the partner of CIIC, who was paying a visit to Beijing, also had breakfast with Mayor Cao Lili, and expressed that they would participate actively in the development of the Yellow River Cultural Park Prgoram.

After repeated and full communication and negotiation, Weinan Municipal Government and CIIC reached common ground. Weinan Municipal Government completely agreed and would fully support CIIC to develop and build the Yellow River Cultural Park Program in the territory of Weinan, and in the process, they would give full assistance and provide relevant preferential policies. The two parties tentatively decided that the park site would be located in the cross of the three rivers, i.e., the Yellow River, Luohe River, and Weihe River, and it would be further determined after CIIC conducted a field investigation in the last ten-day of September.

On August 29, 2007, the two parties signed the cooperation framework agreement. Sun Gonglin, the secretary general of China Society for Promotion of the Guangcai Program, and Fu Zhongshi, the minister of Program Department, the delegation of Weinan Municipal Government, the leaders of CIIC and the members of the Yellow River Team witnessed the arrival of the historic moment. The successful signing of the cooperation agreement proves again the correctness of President Wang's concept on developing the park in other domestic regions, and it symbolizes the Yellow River Cultural Park Program enters formally a substantial work stage. As the main body of the Yellow River Cultural Park Program, BIIP will continue to insist on the Beijing Park road under the guidance of President Wang's mode of developing the park in other domestic regions in the future work. It is convincing that a modern park with culture, ecology and technology as a whole will stand erect on the bank of the Yellow River in the near future.