友城之約 美美與共成都與蒙彼利埃締結友好城市40 周年圖片展

文：《一帶一路報道》全媒體記者 李卉嬪

蒙彼利埃的悠閑時光Leisurely life in Montpellier

相知無遠近，萬里尚為鄰。

4 月18 日，由四川省外事辦公室、成都市人民政府外事辦公室、四川日報報業集團、四川省人民對外友好協會、四川省新聞中心指導，四川一帶一路報道出版有限公司主辦，中國外文局西歐與非洲傳播中心（今日中國雜志社）、東中西部區域發展和改革研究院、《高速鐵路技術》、成都蒙彼利埃之家、成都蒙彼利埃小學協辦的“友城之約 美美與共——成都與蒙彼利埃締結友好城市40 周年”圖片展在中國-歐洲中心正式開展，展覽為期1 個月，免費向公眾開放。

“國之交在于民相親，民相親在于心相通”。友好城市已日益成為發展中外關系、促進中外交流合作的著力點和承載地。國家主席習近平在中國國際友好大會上發表重要講話：要大力開展中國國際友好城市工作，促進中外地方政府交流，推動實現資源共享、優勢互補、合作共贏。

1981 年，成都與蒙彼利埃締結四川省第一對國際友好城市。40 年來，雙方在經濟、文化、教育、衛生等領域互動頻繁，合作成果豐碩，創造了中法交流史上的多個“第一”：建立中法第一對友好城市，首次互辦以對方城市名命名的學校，設立蒙彼利埃市在境外唯一一個辦事處——成都蒙彼利埃之家……兩座城市成了國際友城交往的璀璨明星。

從成蒙締結第一對國際友好城市開始，四川的國際“朋友圈”不斷擴大。截至2021 年12 月，四川已締結國際友城關系114 對、國際友好合作關系304 對。作為對外開放的重要平臺、城市外交的重要載體、民間外交的重要內容，國際友城活動乘著“一帶一路”的東風，從政府到企業、從官方到民間，合作的廣度和深度不斷拓展，為增進人民友誼、造福當地社會、發展國家關系作出了積極貢獻。

上圖：中國-歐洲中心Above: Business ＆Innovation Centre for China-Europe Cooperation

下圖：“成都與蒙彼利埃締結友好城市40周年”圖片展現場Below: Photo Exhibition of “The 40th Anniversary of the Establishment of the Friend ship City Relationship between Chengdu and Montpellier”（向雯 攝）

見證40 年合作成果

蓉城四月，桃紅柳綠，遍地芬芳。“友城之約 美美與共成都與蒙彼利埃締結友好城市40 周年”圖片展在國家級對歐開放合作平臺、成都地標性摩天樓中國-歐洲中心拉開帷幕。展覽通過“線上+線下”的形式進行，讓中法兩國人民對成蒙兩市40 年交往合作有一個全面、直觀的了解，也讓成都市民不出國門，就可以感受到萬里之遙的友城蒙彼利埃的萬種風情。

展覽分為“攜手合作 共謀發展”“天涯比鄰 交流互鑒”“跨越時空 同赴未來”3 個部分，共展出攝影作品、兒童繪畫作品百余幅。每一幅作品都是成蒙兩市交流合作的高光時刻，也是兩市人民深厚友誼的重要見證，更是兩市攜手同行、互利共贏、共建人類命運共同體的守諾信物。

在“攜手合作 共謀發展”部分，展出了40 年間成蒙兩市從經貿到文化，從醫療到教育多領域、多層次密切合作的圖片。其中一組醫療合作的圖片，生動地展現了成蒙兩市互派人員交流學習、醫療技術互學互鑒、中西醫碰撞后的多元化合作。國際友城的守望相助，在后疫情時代更為珍貴。

以圖為“橋”，以畫為“媒”

轉角來到FISE 極限運動組圖前，每個炫酷而充滿激情的畫面都令人血脈賁張。FISE 起源于蒙彼利埃，是國際極限運動嘉年華的法文縮寫。隨著成蒙兩市交流合作的日益密切，成都在2014 年引進該項賽事，并于當年舉辦了第一屆FISE 世界極限運動巡回賽。截至目前，成都已成功舉辦6屆巡回賽。每屆比賽都吸引了全球頂尖極限運動員齊聚成都，極大地推動了成都打造國際體育賽事名城的進程。

以圖為“橋”，以畫為“媒”。一幅幅充滿異域風情又飽含濃濃生活氣息的畫面更是讓觀眾看得過癮：騎著自行車的少男少女，街頭巷尾的書攤、水果攤，隨處可見的露天咖啡館……“陽光之城”蒙彼利埃市民與喜好“市井茶室、恬淡人生”的成都市民總能一拍即合。同樣的慢生活節奏、同樣樂觀豁達的性格，讓兩市人民的文化更加交融。

作為成蒙兩市合作交流的橋梁——成都蒙彼利埃之家，一直定期舉辦“中法文學藝術對話”“紅酒品鑒”“電影沙龍”等各種文化交流活動。負責人李曉宇在展覽現場介紹道，成都蒙彼利埃之家將為成都市民和在蓉法籍人士提供更多文化交流的平臺，持續加深兩地人民的互信和友誼。

跨越時空，未來更可期

兒童是未來，是希望。在參展作品中，有30 余幅兒童繪畫作品，均由成都蒙彼利埃小學學生繪制。成都蒙彼利埃小學作為中法教育合作的典范，2016 年被中法兩國外交部聯合授予“中法地方政府合作獎”特別獎，并于2018 年被納入《中法高層人文交流機制備忘錄》 。

現場觀展的成都蒙彼利埃小學老師林存粉介紹，學校與蒙彼利埃學界有很多互動，即使在疫情期間溝通交流也未曾中斷。讓孩子們發揮天馬行空的想象力，繪出“我心中的友城”，是展現成蒙友誼的“點睛之筆”。

成蒙之約，搭建起國際合作的廣闊平臺，連接起交流互鑒的緊密紐帶，凝聚起互信友誼的強大力量。美美與共，未來更可期！

The Chinese often say, “Distance cannot separate true friends who remain close even when thousands of miles apart.”

The activity of “Partnership for Shared Prosperity —Photo Exhibition on the 40th Anniversary of the Sister Cities of Chengdu and Montpellier” was held in the Business ＆Innovation Center for China-Europe Cooperation (CCEC)on April 18. The event was guided by the Foreign Affairs Office of Sichuan Province, Foreign Affairs Office of Chengdu Municipal People’s Government, Sichuan Daily Press Group,Sichuan Provincial People’s Association for Friendship with Foreign Countries, and Sichuan Press Center, sponsored by Sichuan Belt and Road Reports Publishing Co., Ltd., and coorganized by Western Europe and Africa Communication Center of China Foreign Languages Publishing Administration(China Today Magazine), China Region Development ＆Reform Institute, High Speed Railway Technology, Maison de Montpellier à Chengdu, and école primaire Montpellier à Chengdu. The exhibition will last for one month and is open to the public for free.

As an old Chinese saying goes, “Friendship, which derives from close contact between the peoples, holds the key to thriving state-to-state relations.” Sister cities play an increasingly significant role in promoting China’s relations,communication, and cooperation with foreign countries.President Xi Jinping delivered an important speech at the China International Friendship Conference that energetic efforts on promoting international sister cities should be made to boost exchanges between Chinese and foreign local governments and enable the sharing of resources, complementary advantages,and win-win cooperation.

In 1981, Chengdu and Montpellier became international sister cities as the first pair in Sichuan Province. Over the past four decades, the two cities have embraced close cooperation in economy, culture, education, and health, creating many“firsts” in the history of China-France exchanges: they are the first pair of sister cities between the two countries; they are the first two cities founding schools named after the other;Montpellier opened its only overseas office in Chengdu—Maison de Montpellier à Chengdu... Two cities have become a resounding success for the exchanges between international cities.

Since the establishment of relations between Chengdu and Montpellier, Sichuan has expanded its international circle of friends. As of December 2021, Sichuan had established 114 pairs of international sister cities and 304 pairs of international friendly and cooperative cities. Under the driving force of the Belt and Road, sister city activities function as an important platform for opening up to the outside world, an important carrier of city diplomacy, and important content of people-topeople diplomacy to facilitate intensive government and nongovernment cooperation and make positive contributions to enhancing the friendship between two sides, benefiting local society and developing state-to-state relations.

上圖：蒙彼利埃遠眺凱旋門Above: View of the Arc de Triomphe from Montpellier

下圖：蒙彼利埃街頭藝術涂鴉Below: Street art graffiti of Montpellier

Testimony to cooperation achievements over the 40 years

In April, Chengdu is imbued with a flowery urban landscape. The Photo Exhibition kicked off in CCEC, a landmark skyscraper in Chengdu positioned as a national platform for the opening up and cooperation with Europe.The one-month exhibition held both online and offline aims to allow people in the two countries to gain a comprehensive and intuitive understanding of the 40-year exchanges and cooperation between Chengdu and Montpellier. Through this activity, Chengdu citizens can also appreciate the charm of Montpellier far apart without traveling overseas.

The exhibition is tripartite: Work Together and Seek Common Development, Exchanges and Mutual Learning Between Distant Friends, and Cross Time and Space Toward the Future Together. It has displayed more than 100 photographic works and children’s paintings, each of which marks the highlights of exchanges and cooperation between the two cities, the important evidence of the profound friendship between the two cities, and the token of commitments of the two cities to making joint efforts to pursue mutual benefit and win-win results and build a community with a shared future for mankind.

The section of Work Together and Seek Common Development exhibits photos of close cooperation in such fields as economy, trade, culture, healthcare, and education.Among the showpieces, a group of pictures of medical cooperation vividly show the exchange and learning of personnel between the two cities, the mutual learning of medical technology, and the diversified cooperation based on the combination of traditional Chinese medicine and western medicine. The mutual assistance of international sister cities is particularly precious in the post-pandemic era.

Photo as window

Around the corner is a group of photos of FISE. Each photo looks cool and is bursting with passion. FISE, which originated in Montpellier, is the French acronym for International Extreme Sports Festival. With increasingly close exchange and cooperation between the two cities, Chengdu introduced the event in 2014 and held the first FISE World Series the same year. As of 2019, Chengdu had held six sessions of the event. Each session attracted the world’s top extreme athletes to gather in Chengdu, greatly promoting the process of building Chengdu into a famous city for international sports events.

上圖：蒙彼利埃時光小巷Above: Alley of Time in Montpellier

左下：蒙彼利埃有軌電車Bottom left: Tram of Montpellier

右下：兒童畫《我心中的友城·夢幻彩虹》Bottom right: Children’s painting Sister City in My Heart? Fantasy Rainbow

上圖：2017 年，成都蒙彼利埃小學學生與寄宿家庭周末在戶外活動Above: Students at Chengdu Montpellier Primary School spend a weekend outdoors with their host families in 2017

中圖：蒙彼利埃喜劇廣場Middle: Comedy Square in Montpellier

下圖：風箏沖浪Below: Coastline of Montpellier

2019 年10 月31 日至11 月3 日，起源于蒙彼利埃的FISE世界極限運動巡回賽連續第6 年在成都舉辦The FISE World Series,which originated in Montpellier, is held in Chengdu for the sixth consecutive year from October 31 to November 3, 2019

These photo are like windows that allow Chengdu people to get an impression of exotic and living scenes: boys and girls on bicycles, bookstalls and fruit stalls in the streets, open-air cafes everywhere...Montpellier is known as the sun-kissed city. People there embrace the relaxed pace of life as Chengdu citizens do. The similar slow lifestyle and the optimistic and open-minded character narrow the distance between the cultures and peoples in the two cities.

Maison de Montpellier à Chengdu, as a bridge of cooperation and exchange between Chengdu and Montpellier, regularly holds various cultural exchange activities such as “Dialogue between Chinese and French Literature and Art”, “Red Wine Tasting”, and “Film Salon”.Responsible person Li Xiaoyu said at the exhibition site that Maison de Montpellier à Chengdu will provide more cultural exchange platforms for Chengdu citizens and French nationals in Chengdu to deepen mutual trust and friendship between the peoples of the two cities.

兒童畫《我心中的友誠·春季相約》Children’s painting Sister City in My Heart ·Meeting in the Spring

Looking into the promising future

Children are the future and hope. Among the exhibits, there are more than 30 children’s paintings, all of which were made by the students of école primaire Montpellier à Chengdu. The school is a model of educational cooperation between China and France. It was jointly granted the “Award of Cooperation between Chinese and French Local Governments” by the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of China and the French Ministry for Europe and Foreign Affairs in 2016 and was included in the Memorandum on China-France High-level People-to-people and Cultural Exchange Mechanism in 2018.

Lin Cunfen, a teacher from the school, said on the exhibition site that the school carried out extensive interaction with the Montpellier academic community,even during the pandemic. The pictures of “Sister City in My Heart” drawn by children with their wild imaginations are the finishing touch of the exhibition of friendship between Chengdu and Montpellier.

The rapport between the two cities builds a broad platform for international cooperation, functions as the ties of close exchanges and mutual learning,and gathers the great strength of mutual trust and friendship. Let’s co-create a prosperous and promising future.