MAYOR Yang Xiong met with Dimitry Kumsishvili, first deputy prime minister and minister of economy and sustainable development of Georgia, in Shanghai on Wednesday.

Yang said Shanghai is an open city and is playing an active role in the "Belt and Road" initiative. Shanghai wants to strengthen cooperation with Georgia and other countries along the Silk Road.

He briefed the Georgian guests on Shanghai's effort to become an international economic, financial, trade and shipping center, reforms and innovations under way in Shanghai Pilot Free Trade Zone, and the city's endeavor to become a global innovation center. All these create opportunities for cooperation with foreign countries.