President of the Vienna Provincial Parliament Woller travels to China

China wants to learn from Vienna's social housing model and to cooperate even more in the cultural sector.

Ernst Woller, President of the Vienna Provincial Parliment and Ye Niuping, Mayor of Xi'an.

As part of his trip to China from 1 to 14 January 2025, Ernst Woller, President of the Vienna Provincial Parliament, visited four major cities and presented Vienna's social housing model. He participated in numerous high-level discussions, e.g. with Vienna Airport's Member of the Executive Board, Julian Jäger, and discussed existing and future cultural cooperation. In Chengdu, Vienna's sister city and the largest city in west China, Woller met with Pubu Dunzhu, Vice Governor of Sichuan Province and Wang Fengchao, Mayor of Chengdu. He presented Vienna's social housing policies to experts from the Ministry of Housing and Urban-Rural Development. He attended afterwards an important meeting in Shenzhen with Dai Yunlong from the Shenzhen Municipal People's Congress.

After several rounds of discussions, which also took place in Vienna, Julian Jäger, agreed with the city of Xi'an on the third direct flight connection between Vienna and China. Hainan Airlines, the largest private airline in the People's Republic of China, connects Vienna with Shenzhen and Chengdu, the provincial capital of Sichuan since December 2024.

Chengdu-Vienna Youth Symphony Orchestra's Concert

The ACCA association (Austria-China Culture and Art Development Center in Chengdu), which promotes exchange and cooperation between China and Austria in the fields of culture, music, art and education, invited Woller to the first concert of the Chengdu-Vienna Youth Symphony Orchestra.

The orchestra will perform in Vienna in summer 2025. In addition, the Chinese University of Hong Kong (CUHK) and several Austrian music universities signed a cooperation agreement in Shenzhen.