MAYOR Yang Xiong met a Canadian delegation led by Toronto Mayor John Tory on Saturday. He said the Sino-Canadian economic ties have been growing steadily and Shanghai is widening cooperation with its sister city of Montreal in Quebec Province.

Yang said many Canadian companies and financial institutions are now operating in Shanghai and more and more Shanghai enterprises are investing in Canada.

He briefed the guests on Shanghai's economic restructuring and its efforts to become an international center of economy, finance, trade and shipping. He said Shanghai is gradually changing from an industrial city into a service city.