sister cities

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China-India Sister Cities Synergies and Implications for Business

Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s first official visit to China in May 2015 is expected to lay the foundation for expanding the two Asian giants’ budding model of cross-border business and people-to-people contact: the sister-city arrangement. The future growth of such arrangements already is manifest in a slew of “sister city” arrangements planned between Chinese and Indian cities. The foundations of such interactions go back to 2013 when decisions were made to connect Delhi and Beijing, Bengaluru and Chengdu, and Kolkata and Kunming as sister cities.