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Lights of the North The Year of Canada-China Tourism and Winnipeg’s 30th


birthday with its sister city Chengdu bring the Lights of the North, the Chinese Lantern Light Festival to Winnipeg


By Dorothy Dobbie


Covering 10 acres at Red River Exhibition Park, this will be the largest spectacle of its kind ever mounted in Canada.


people from the Winnipeg Cham- ber of Commerce travelled to China for the twinning of Winnipeg with Chengdu, the fifth largest and fifth most important city in China, and the capital of Sichuan province in western China.


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It was an important event, represent- 10 • Summer 2018


hirty years ago in 1988, a delegation from the City of Winnipeg along with a group of Winnipeg business


ing one of the early efforts by a Cana- dian city to reach out to the country which was still emerging from behind the Bamboo Curtain. Te twinning event opened the doors that allowed Winnipeg to be- come the very first city in Canada, second in North America only to the San Diego Zoo, to host a couple of giant pandas. It was a very big deal. In spite of all the excitement at that time, however, the relationship with


our sister city has been allowed to de- cline on our side, although Chengdu has reached out many times to us. Tat will be remedied this year. Not only does 2018 mark the 30th


anniversary of the signing of our sis- ter city relationship with Chengdu, 2018 is the Year of Canada-China Tourism, as agreed between Prime Minister Justin Trudeau and Premier Li Keqiang in September 2016. Sev- en new visa application centres have


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