Victoria Mayor Dean Fortin shakes hands with Mayor Fangfang Huang of Nanning, China at Victoria City Hall on Friday (July 9).

“We just signed an educational memorandum of understanding and we will send high school students from Nanning to Victoria to study,” said Huang. “Victoria high school students will also visit Nanning.”

Located in the Guangxi Zhuang province of China, Nanning boasts 6.5-million residents.

Victoria Mayor Dean Fortin said ties between the two communities could prove to be mutually beneficial.