Study The Present Situation Of The Development Of Sino-us Friendship Cities

The ever-deepening Sino-US relationship highlights the significance of their sister-city relations as an important aspect of the subnational govenments'international endeavors. The thesis , based on statistic analysis, case study, and comparative analysis, tries to quantitively explore the scale and the distribution of Sino-US sister cities, and to qualitatively reveal the content of this relation.Sino-US sister-city relations has an innegelectable role in China's regional economic growth and socical development, as well as the realization of the country's overall diplomatic goals. In post-financial crisis days, China should grasp the opportunity to push forward Sino-US sister-city contacts by balancing the development of sister cites among the eastern, the middle and the westen parts of China, cultivating professional talents with proficient language skills and broad scope of knowledge , intensifying the performance management of regional governments, and expanding the realm of sister-city interactions.