DUSHANBE, June 17, 2013, Asia-Plus — An enlarged meeting of the Dushanbe mayor’s office, presided over by Mayor Mahmadsaid Ubaidulloyev, took place on June 17.
The current sanitary and environmental situation in the Tajik capital was a major topic of the meeting, Shavkat Saidov, a spokesman for the Dushanbe mayor’s office said.
The meeting also considered issues related to providing the population with safe drinking water, organizing children’s summer camps and ensuring regular work of passenger transport.
The meeting participants also discussed preparations for the National Unity Day, which is marked in Tajikistan on June 27.
The mayor also ordered to make preparations to the first official visit of a delegation of the Chinese city of Xiamen to Dushanbe. The delegation, led by Xiamen Mayor Liu Keqing, is scheduled to visit Dushanbe from June 19-23, Saidov said.
Xiamen is a major city on the southeast (Taiwan Strait) coast of the People”s Republic of China. It is administered as a sub-provincial city of Fujian province with an area of 1,699.39 square kilometers and population of 3.67 million. It borders Quanzhou to the north and Zhangzhou making this a unique built up area of more than five million people.
Xiamen has a diverse and well-developed economy. Primary economic activities include fishing, shipbuilding, food processing, tanning, textiles, machine tool manufacturing, chemical industries, telecommunications and financial services. The city reportedly has economic and trade relations with 162 countries and regions worldwide, and benefits from foreign investment, particularly capital from Hong Kong, Macau and Taiwan.
Xiamen is the host of the China International Fair for Investment and Trade held annually in early September to attract foreign direct investment into the Chinese mainland.
