Baiyin city holds a signing ceremony for cooperation between the Baiyin city government and the Gansu chamber of commerce in Shaanxi province on May 13. [Photo/baiyin.cn]

The government of Baiyin city signed a strategic cooperation agreement with the Gansu chamber of commerce in Shaanxi province on May 13 to promote investment and trade development in Baiyin.

Participants of the signing ceremony included Baiyin’s Party chief Zhang Zhiquan, and Zhang Haixiong, the president of the chamber of commerce.

The Gansu chamber of commerce in Shaanxi is made up of entrepreneurs who used to live in Gansu or were born there. Its members engage in all walks of life including construction, real estate, finance, culture and logistics.

Baiyin means silver. As the name suggested, the city is a treasure land, whose mining industry began as early as the Han Dynasty (206BC-220AD).

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Edited by Peter Nordlinger