On the afternoon of April 20, Mayor Fei Gaoyun met with the delegation headed by Michael Buhre, Mayor of Minden, Germany, in the Administration Center. The two sides shared ideas about mutual understanding and future cooperation.

Minden is a town of about 83,000 inhabitants in the north-east of North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany. It is the capital of the district (Kreis) of Minden-Lübbecke, which is part of the region of Detmold. Minden is the historic political centre of the cultural region of Minden Land. It is widely known as the intersection of the Mittelland Canal and the River Weser.

Minden and Changzhou signed an agreement on friendship and cooperation in March 2014. In September the same year, Michael Buhre, mayor of Minden, visited Changzhou and attended the Changzhou International Forum on Science and Technology & Foreign Trade and Economic Cooperation 2014.

Fei briefed the economic and social development of Changzhou, and expressed the will to deepen the friendship and enhance exchanges between Changzhou and Minden.

Buhre stated that Changzhou and Minden have many things in common in the course of development, and he looked forward to further exchanges and cooperation in fields of economy, culture, education, health care, etc.