Chengdu signed March 27 an MoU with Bogotá, capital of Colombia, on the establishment of a friendly and cooperative relationship between the two cities. Luo Qiang, Deputy Secretary of the CPC Chengdu Municipal Committee and Mayor of Chengdu, and Enrique Peñalosa, Mayor of Bogotá, were present at the signing ceremony.

Both parties expressed to expand and deepen, on the basis of the MoU, the mutual partnership in economy, tourism, science and technology, education, culture, sports and other fields, promote the trade in coffee, and to share experience in urban planning, development and management, in hopes of facilitating the people-to-people exchanges and making more positive contributions to the development of the bilateral relations between China and Colombia.

Bogotá is the capital and largest city of Colombia, as well as one of the fastest growing cities in South America. With beautiful scenery and plenty of historical and cultural heritage sites, it is dubbed as the "Athens in South America".