Houston to hold US-China sister cities summit

With desires to deepen local-level China-US ties and to broaden bilateral cooperation echoed among Chinese and US city leaders, business community members, and diplomats as hundreds of them gathered in Houston on Wednesday for the fourth US-China Sister Cities Mayors' Summit.

Participants in the summit, which was themed "cities mean business", look to strengthen economic and cultural ties drawing on local development and leveraging networks across China and the US.