Hafnarfjörður's Chinese twin town paid a visit last week.
Baoding is a city of 11 million people, located about 125 km from Beijing. The Borough of Hafnarfjörður and Baoding have been twinned for over two decades. The twinning has been crucial to the success of the Icelandic-Chinese geothermal cooperation in geothermalifying cities and towns in China, as the Baoding administrative area has significant geothermal resources.
A six-person delegation from Baoding, the twin town of Hafnarfjörður in
China visited the town the other day. For the group, Li Junling, the deputy, went.
mayor of Baoding, and he and Mayor Haraldur L. Haraldsson had it together
meeting where the town's operations and the implementation of the equal pay standard were discussed,
Health-promoting community projects, a growing business community in the town and environmental issues.
The group was particularly interested in learning about geothermal energy and
its utilisation and visited the Reykjanes Power Station and learned about the resource park which
utilises resource streams from geothermal power plants on the Reykjanes Peninsula and went on a sightseeing tour of
Seltún in Krísuvík. The group then visited Áslandsskóli and learnt about
amidst the school's operations and ongoing iPad roll-out, visited the food company
Tor, where food safety and the traceability of products were discussed, and a visit was paid.
the football club Haukar at Ásvellir and went on a tour of Ásvallalaug.
Baoding is a city of 11 million people, about 125 km from Beijing.
Beijing. The Borough of Hafnarfjörður and Baoding have been twinned for over two years.
for decades. The twinning partnership has been crucial to the success of the geothermal cooperation.
between Icelanders and the Chinese about geothermalising cities and towns in China but major
Geothermal resources are in the administrative area of Baoding.