Yang Wanming, president of the Chinese People's Association for Friendship with
Foreign Countries, led a delegation to Canada and the United States from June
1–6 to attend the 6th China‑Canada Cultural Dialogue and the 8th China‑US Sister
Cities Conference. In Canada he held meetings with the parliamentary secretary
to the prime minister, a former deputy prime minister, the deputy minister of
heritage, MPs and senators, a Montreal mayoral representative, and conducted
talks with the Canada‑China Friendship Association, Canada‑China Business
Council and the Bethune Association. In the United States he met with the mayor
of San Francisco, the Oregon Senate president, the acting speaker of the
Washington state House and the honorary chair of the global sister cities
association.
