On July 28, He Guangzhong, Secretary of the CPC Jingzhou Municipal Committee, met with a visiting foreign consular corps. Members of the corps include Kang Seung-seok, Consul General of the Republic of Korea in Wuhan and Martin Walley, British Consul General in Wuhan.

After extending warm welcome to the corps on behalf of the CPC Jingzhou Municipal Committee and the Jingzhou Municipal People's Government, He introduced the general situation of Jingzhou. In recent years, Jingzhou has carried out substantial exchanges and cooperation with South Korea, the UK, France and other countries in fields such as economic trade, culture, art and education, he said. In the "fourteenth five-year" period, Jingzhou will speed up the reform and opening-up, strengthen all-round exchanges and cooperation with its sister cities, and create a top environment for foreign companies to invest and foreigners to live and work in peace in Jingzhou.

The visit is rich in substance, Kang said, expressing his deep admiration for the post-epidemic recovery of Jingzhou. He noted that Jingzhou and Gangneung have maintained longstanding sister city relationship and achieved common development, wishing both cities further progress in development and cooperation.

Present were Feng Xiguo, Deputy Director of the Foreign Affairs Office of the CPC Hubei Provincial Committee; Jiang Hong, Member of the Standing Committee and Secretary General of the CPC Jingzhou Municipal Committee; and Deng Yingjun, Vice Mayor of the Jingzhou Municipal People's Government.

During its stay in Jingzhou, the corps visited the former sites of Qujiawan Western Hunan-Hubei Revolutionary Base Area, Jingzhou Museum and other places, to experience the charm of the water garden city, as well as the vitality of Jingzhou recovering from the epidemic.