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The 10th China Flower Expo with the theme “Blossoming Chinese dream” will be held on Chongming Island, Shanghai, China from the 21st of May until the 2nd of July 2021. The China Flower EXPO is the largest and most influential national flower event in China. The organisation expects to receive three million visitors during the Expo.

Zuid-Holland province maintains a government-to-government relationship with the province of Hebei, China, that is explicitly aimed at facilitating mutual business-to-business relationships. The relationship started in 1993 and turned into an official friendship relationship in 2007 by the signing of a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU). The latest MoU was signed for the period 2016-2020 and focused in particular on water management and the environment, sustainable development, agriculture and horticulture, new energy and education.

17 June was the World Day to Combat Desertification and Drought, honoured by United Nations. The purpose of this day is to raise awareness about the presences of desertification and drought. The King’s Commissioner of Zuid Holland his excellency Jaap Smit was asked by Elion to provide a speech at the Kubuqi virtual conference.

南荷兰省支持区域内的商业公司和科研机构赴中国开展业务。 特别是与河北省建立了长期的友好省份关系，为我们两个省的发展创造了附加值。

Zuid-Holland Province supports regional companies and knowledge institutions in doing business in China. Especially with Hebei province we have a long-standing sister relationship that creates added value for both our regions.

雅普斯密特省长在中国廊坊国际经洽会开幕式上致辞

The global pandemic of coronavirus highly restricted international travelling, but it cannot stop international cooperation. Province of Zuid-Holland still kept close coordination with Chinese sister province Hebei in the last a few months. When the virus heavily broke out in China in February, King’s Commissioner Jaap Smit sent a letter to Xu Qin, Governor of Hebei to express the sincerest sympathy from the Netherlands. In order to support Zuid-Holland, Hebei Red Cross delivered a few boxes surgical masks and protection suits to The Hague recently.

副省长安德瑞女士在中农富通的全球都市农业和园艺技术网络研讨会上发表主旨讲话

On 16 May, CAU Futong, the commercial service platform under China Agriculture University organized a webinar about urban agriculture and horticultural technology with international speakers and global audiences. Urban agriculture and horticultural technology seminar is an annual event that CAU Futong organized in Beijing since 2010. Because of the coronavirus, traveling is highly restricted. With this concern, Futong organized his first webinar about urban agriculture and horticultural technology.

南荷兰省中国新年聚会

On January 24th, the last day of the Chinese year of the Pig, Zuid-Holland Province hosted a meeting to celebrate the new year of the Rat, look back at the Zuid-Holland mission to China in November 2019 and look forward to the China activities in 2020.

The King's Commissioner Jaap Smit and Regional Minister Adri Bom-Lemstra are in China from 17 to 22 November inclusive. Together with representatives of 30 businesses from Zuid-Holland they will focus on sustainable development and modernisation of agriculture and horticulture during their trade mission.

河北省副省长代表团访问南荷兰省

In the afternoon of 18 October, Ms Adri Bom-Lemstra, Vice-governor of Province of Zuid-Holland and Mr Jean-Christophe Spapens, Head of the Unit European and International affairs, received Mr. Shi, Vice-governor of Hebei and his delegation at the World Horti Center.

北京农业农村局代表团访问南荷兰省

On October 12th, 2019, Ms. Fokje Lamboo and Mr. Etwin Grootscholten, two Senior Policy Officials at Province of Zuid-Holland, received Mr. Zhang Xiaosheng, Director of Cooperation and Exchange Office in Beijing Agricultural Bureau and his delegation in The Hague.