Video: People's Daily Online interviews Mayor of San Francisco Edwin M. Lee (3)

People’s Daily Online: According to what you have just said, I think ChinaSF is working like a bridge between San Francisco and China’s major cities. So for example I know there is a project. There is a San Francisco-based company named Heller Manus Archetects. I know it was chosen to lead the design and construction of an urban downtown plan in Guangzhou of China in 2009. And it was the project worth more than 100 million U.S. dollars. Can you elaborate to us what kind of role did ChinaSF play in this case and any other similar examples you would like to share with us.

Mayor: Yes. Well ChinaSF, I think that was a perfect example. Well, we have an American architectural firm. Its headquarters is in San Francisco. And over many years, they have become very successful in designing of green landscape, green buildings of very energy-efficient layout planning. Well they have been very successful in the United States. They want to share that approach of development in China. And so they have chosen and were chosen through competition to do urban revitalization in the city of Guangzhou, and present the most modern designs for parks, open space, buildings and transportation. There are more of that kind of relationships to be had.

But in China, ChinaSF is also looking at things that are of different nature. For example, we are working on the idea to have a shanghai food festival that could operate in San Francisco. All we take the idea like the very famous Guangzhou Trade Fair that happens twice every year. And we would like to create a version of that in San Francisco so that we can allow American companies to understand many of the manufacturing that is going on in China that they may be interested in. But they may not have the time to come to China. So we would create that fair there.

Then there are other ideas like the Shanghai Film Festival where we may wish to have more of the film producers on both sides interchange and understand through film the opinions of people who are not only in the artistic world but in everyday life and have that production in film to be exchanged on both sides. And in San Francisco, you know one of the most beautiful cities in the world; we also like to attract more film making from China. Maybe they would tell stories we have yield to learn about.

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