Among the new arrangements announced in Ningbo were friendly exchange ties between the city's Yinzhou District and Saint-Étienne-du-Rouvray in France, and between Yuyao City (under the administration of Ningbo) and Errachidia in Morocco.

　　Delegates also issued the Ningbo Consensus on Collaborative Development, calling for open trade, industrial cooperation and closer people-to-people exchanges.

　　For Joachim Moyse, mayor of Saint-Étienne-du-Rouvray, such cooperation ultimately comes down to the relationships cities build with one another. He described his task as building bridges between people.