On September 13, Cheng Lianyuan, Governor of Chaoyang District, held an interview with Mr. CHRISTAKIS MICHALIS, secretary general of Marousi City, Greece, and his entourage, and signed the Friendly Communication Memorandum. Cheng Hong, Deputy Governor of the District, Zhang Heping, Vice-Chairman of the People's Political Consultative Conference of the District, and Mr. Cambanis, Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary of the Embassy of the Hellenic Republic , attended the ceremony. The two parties discussed actively on how to consolidate and develop the cooperation between each other.

Marousi City lies in the northeast of the Athens Area, Greece, where the major venues of the 2004 Olympic Games are located. It is also the financial center of the Athens area and headquarters of many multinational corporations. The delegation has come, at the invitation of Governor Cheng Lianyuan, to attend the 8^th Beijing CBD International Business Festival.