Cairo Governorate（Egypt）

Cairo Governorate（Egypt）

[Overview] Cairo is the capital and political, economic, cultural and transportation center of the Arab Republic of Egypt. Located in the northeast of the country, Cairo Governorate covers an area of 3,085 square kilometers and has a population of about 22.8 million.

[Politics] The incumbent governor of Cairo Khaled Abdel Aal came into office in August 2018.

[Economy] Cairo Governorate is the industrial and agricultural center of Egypt. Helwan, a city located in the south of Cairo, is the country's largest iron and steel hub, while the famous Nile Delta in the north mainly produces such crops as cotton, rice, corn and wheat, as well as beans, sugarcane, fruits and onion.

[Culture and Education] Cairo is well known for its abundant cultural legacy. It is reputed as the “city of a thousand minarets” for the numerous minarets found across the city. It is home to various regular and vocational schools, of which the Cairo University, Ain Shams University and Al-Azhar University are renowned worldwide.

[Relations with Beijing] Beijing and Cairo established the sister-city relationship on October 28, 1990. The two sides have maintained sound official ties in recent years and worked closely together in such areas as investment and trade, urban management, and public facilities.

Investment and Trade: In March 2005, a Beijing-based biomedicine company and a medicine and medical equipment company under Egypt's Ahram Newspaper signed at the Ahram headquarters an agreement on launching in the Egyptian market Paclitaxel and Ftibamzone, two anti-tumor and anti-virus drugs based on biomedicine technology.

In 2018, Foton Motor Group and a company under Egypt's Ministry of Military Production declared interests in cooperative projects including a joint venture producing electric buses. They signed a memorandum for this purpose, pushing their business cooperation into a new stage. In 2019, the IMUT company under Egypt's Ministry of Military Production signed the joint venture framework agreement with Foton during the Belt and Road Forum for International Cooperation.

In October 2019, Beijing held a series of cultural exchange events in Cairo themed on “Experiencing Beijing”. These included a fair that displayed Beijing's high-quality cultural and creative products, business matchmaking and other activities that promoted key cultural enterprises and projects from Beijing, facilitated dialogue between Beijing and Cairo's cultural enterprises and explored channels of cooperation. The Beijing Cultural and Creativity Industry Service Company and Egypt's Galaxy Group signed an MOU on-site.

Urban Management and Public Facilities: In March 1998, a construction team flew from Beijing to Cairo, where they spent a month building the China Garden in the Cairo International Park, a symbol of friendship between Beijing and Cairo.

Culture and Education: In 2018, representatives of Beijing and Cairo Governorate held in-depth discussions about better aligning their development strategies as sister cities and expanding educational collaboration under the Belt and Road framework. They also visited the Confucius Institute at Cairo University to learn about the setup of Chinese language courses and teaching activities, which provided valuable information for further cooperation in such areas as culture and education.

开罗省（埃及）

【概况】开罗省是阿拉伯埃及共和国的首都，位于埃及东北部，是埃及的政治、经济、文化、交通中心。面积约3085平方公里，人口约2280万。

【政治】现任省长哈立德∙阿卜杜勒∙埃尔于2018年8月就职。

【经济】开罗省是埃及的工农业中心。南部的赫勒万是埃及最大的钢铁工业中心。北部是著名的尼罗河三角洲，主要农作物有棉花、稻谷、玉米和小麦，以及豆类、甘蔗、水果、洋葱等。

【文化教育】开罗省是一座文化名城，素有“千塔之城”的美名，宣礼塔数以千计。设有普通学校和技术学校等各类院校，以开罗大学、艾因沙姆斯大学、爱资哈尔大学等高等学府闻名于世。

【两市交往】1990年10月28日，北京市与开罗省正式建立友好城市关系。近年来，我市与开罗省保持着良好的官方往来，经贸交往、城市管理、市政建设等领域合作成果突出。

经贸交往：2005年3月，北京市生物医药企业与埃及金字塔报业集团医药与医疗设备公司在埃及金字塔报总部签署了“紫杉醇”和“酞丁安”两项高科技生物抗肿瘤和抗病毒药物进入埃及市场的协议。

2018年，福田汽车与埃及军工生产部下属子公司企业达成合作、合资开展属地制造纯电动公交车等项目的合作意向，签订合作意向备忘录，推动双方产能合作进入新阶段。2019年，埃及军工生产部下属MF200军工厂IMUT与福田在“一带一路”峰会期间签署合资框架协议。2019年10月，我市在开罗举办“感知北京·中埃文化产业交流对接”系列活动，通过北京文创精品集市、北京文化产业交流对接会等形式推介北京重点文化企业和项目，与埃及文化企业开展文化产业交流，探讨合作渠道。北京市文化创意产业发展服务有限公司在活动现场与埃及星河文旅集团签署了合作备忘录。

城市管理和市政建设：1998年3月，我市中国园施工队赴开罗，历时1个月，修建了象征两省市友好的开罗世界公园中国园。

文化教育：2018年，两省市就加强友城发展战略对接，在“一带一路”框架下拓展教育领域合作深入交换意见，调研开罗大学孔子学院，了解中文专业课程设置、汉语教学活动开展情况，为两市开展教育、文化等方面的交流与合作提供了重要的借鉴意义。

（Source: Foreign Affairs Office of Beijing Municipal Government）