Tsuruga City, located in Fukui-ken in central Japan, is the first international sister city of Taizhou. Tsuruga has a long history and is one of the important port cities in Japan. As early as the Nara Era, Tsuruga Port imported rice, soybeans and silk from all over the world. It is an important gateway for Japan to access the world. Industries of Tsuruga are mainly offshore aquaculture and aquatic processing industry, with chemical fiber... [more+]
Since 1996, Taizhou and Tsuruga have been in contact and the two cities officially became sister cities in 2001. The two...
In June 1997, Yukio Hashimoto, then Minister of Industry and Economy of Tsuruga City, led a delegation to Taizhou to inv...
In October 1998, Gong Changcheng, then Deputy Secretary of Taizhou Municipal Party Committee, led a delegation of 6 peop...
In July 1999, Yang Renzheng, then Mayor of Taizhou City, led a 35-member delegation of Taizhou Municipal Government and ...
In January 2000, Naoto Sakamoto, then Vice Mayor of Tsuruga Municipal Government, and Juichiro Nakamuri, Vice Speaker of...
In November 2001, the then Mayor of Tsuruga City, Kaziharu Nanise, and the Speaker of Parliament, Guo Xiuxiong (Chinese ...
In October 2002, the then Mayor of Tsuruga City, Kaziharu Nanise, led a 19-member Government Friendship Delegation and w...
In May 2004, the Taizhou “Five Golden Flowers” Photographer Friendly Delegation visited Tsuruga City, held a photography...
In August 2005, the 15-member Children’s Friendship Delegation of Tsuruga City and the students of Huangyan Internationa...
In August 2006, a 14-member Tsuruga Children’s Friendship Delegation visited each other’s homes with students of Tiantai...
In July 2007, the 14-member Delegation of Tunhe Children’s Goodwill Mission and the friendly exchange group of Taizhou X...
In October 2008, the Taizhou Children’s Goodwill Mission (Sanmen Experimental Primary School and Haiyou Primary School) ...
In January 2011, Zhao Yuejin, then Vice Mayor of Taizhou City, led a 5-member Government Delegation to visit Tsuruga Cit...
In July 2014, Tsuruga Children’s Friendship Delegation and Taizhou Experimental Primary School carried out an exchange v...
In October 2016, Wang Changrong, then Secretary of Taizhou Municipal Party Committee, led a delegation to visit Tsuruga ...
In July 2017, the 11-member Tsuruga Children’s Goodwill Mission and the students of Dongcheng Street Central Primary Sch...
In July 2018, the Mayor of Tsuruga City, Takanomu Kuchigami, Speaker of Parliament and Quan Ming led a friendly delegati...
In September 2019, the 6-member Taizhou culture and art exchange delegation was invited to Tsuruga to participate in the...
In January 2020, Tsuruga City presented masks to Taizhou during the severe epidemic in Taizhou.
