海内存知己，天涯若比邻。在重庆市政府外办的大力支持和指导帮助下，潼南区与林特尔恩市于2020年11月正式签署《建立友好城市关系协议书》，缔结为友好城市。

林特尔恩市位于德国下萨克森州绍姆堡威悉河畔，由核心城市和18个区组成，市内有多处历史超过800年的中世纪木质结构房屋，旅游资源丰富。林特尔恩市有许多中型企业，其中，金属热成型零件制造商西德克公司的冷拉技术排名世界前列，罗莱克公司制造的电子设备保护罩、阿姆科公司的软包装解决方案均居于世界领先水平。林特尔恩市于1992年起与英国肯德尔市、波兰斯瓦夫诺市缔结为友好城市。

据了解，潼南区与林特尔恩市的民间交往始于2004年。从2014年起，林特尔恩市GE文理中学师生代表团多次到潼南进行交流访问，来访学生与潼南第一中学学生结对，学习交流，取得很好的效果。2019年10月，潼南区代表团赴林特尔恩市进行友好访问，受到市长普里默先生的热烈欢迎，双方就正式缔结友好城市，促进双方经贸、农业、教育、文化等方面合作进行深入交流。新冠肺炎疫情发生后，2020年3月，普里默市长致函对潼南区表示关切和慰问。同月，潼南区向林特尔恩市捐赠防护口罩3万只，有效缓解当地防疫物资紧缺状况。

Long distance separates no bosom friends. With the strong support and guidance of Foreign Affairs Office of Chongqing Municipal People's Government, Tongnan District and Rinteln City officially signed the

Agreement on the Establishment of Friendly City Relations

in November 2020 to forge friendly city ties.

Located on the bank of Weser River in Schaumburg, Lower Saxony, Germany, Rinteln City is composed of the core city and 18 districts. With multiple medieval wooden houses with a history of over 800 years, the city is rich in tourism resources. There are many mediumsized enterprises in Rinteln City. Among them, the cold drawing technology of metal thermo-forming parts manufacturer Stüken Company ranks at the top in the world, the electronic equipment protective cover manufactured by Rolec Gehäuse-Systeme GmbH and the flexible packaging solution of ARMCO Company are all at the leading level in the world. Since 1992, Rinteln City has become friendly city with Kendal of UK, and Sławno of Poland.

2018年3月25日至28日，德国下萨克森州林特尔恩市代表团赴潼南区访问。

It is learned that the people-to-people exchanges between Tongnan District and Rinteln city initiated in 2004. Since 2014, the teacher and student delegation of GE Gymnasium in Rinteln city has visited Tongnan for many times, and the visiting students paired with the students of Tongnan No.1 Middle School for study and exchange and yielded remarkable results. In October 2019, the delegation of Tongnan District paid a friendly visit to Rinteln City and was warmly welcomed by the mayor Mr. Thomas Priemer. The two sides had in-depth exchanges on official establishment of friendly cities and promoting bilateral cooperation in economy, trade, agriculture, education, culture, etc. After COVID-19 outbreak, in March 2020, mayor Priemer sent a letter to express concern and consolation to the epidemic in Tongnan District. Tongnan District later donated 30,000 masks to Rinteln, effectively alleviating the shortage of local epidemic prevention supplies.

德国下萨克森州林特尔恩市。

潼南区历史悠久、资源丰富、人杰地灵，是革命先驱杨闇公、第四任国家主席杨尚昆的故乡，当前正在全力实施工业强区战略，巩固提升智能制造、化工新材料、节能环保、绿色建筑建材等产业发展能级。林特尔恩市有工业制造、新材料生产、农产品加工等领域的知名企业。双方的交往将有利于进一步推动两地工业制造、农业加工、风光旅游、人文交流等领域合作，也填补了潼南区国际友好区市关系构建方面的空白，进一步充实了重庆区县级国际友城版图。

图片/潼南区政府外办

编辑/杨艳

Boasting a long history, abundant resources and eminent talents, Tongnan is the hometown of revolutionary pioneer Yang Angong and the fourth President of P.R. China Yang Shangkun. At present, Tongnan District is fully implementing the strategy of revitalizing the district with industry, consolidating and improving intelligent manufacturing, new chemical materials, energy conservation and environmental protection, green building materials and other industries. Rinteln City is known for enterprises specialized in industrial manufacturing, new material production, agricultural products processing, etc. Further exchanges between the two sides will help further advance cooperation in industrial manufacturing, agricultural processing, tourism & culture, and cultural exchanges between the two sides, fill in the gap in international friendly district/city relation construction of Tongnan District and further enrich the district and county-level international friendly city chart of Chongqing.