Located in the southeast of Finland, Lappeenranta city is the eleventh largest city in Finland. It has an area of 1,724 square kilometers and a population of 72,000. As Lappeenranta yiwu city is more than 200 thousand kilometers away from both Helsinki, capital of Finland, and St. Petersburg, the second largest city in Russia, it becomes the largest inner harbour in Finland and acts as a major artery between Finland and Russia. Major industries in Lappeenranta city cover wood processing, communication technology and machinery manufacturing. There are two higher teaching institutions in this city, Lappeenranta University of Technology and Saimaa University of Applied Sciences respectively. Because of the pleasant climate and convenient amphibious transportation, Lappeenranta city is one of the important tourism cities and resorts in Finland. So many clear blue rivers in this city along with canals inserting here and there have made Lappeenranta enjoy the reputation of “Pearl on Saimaa Lake”, and well known to all as one of the vital tourism cities and health resorts in Finland.
Gao Karui, the deputy mayor of Lappeenranta City in Finland led an economic and trade delegation to visit Yiwu on March, 2011. Mi Bin, the member of the Standing Committee of Yiwu Municipal Committee of the CPC met Gao’s delegation. Yiwu market Both sides discussed the issues in terms of economy, exhibition, tourism and other fields. At the invitation of Lappeenranta Municipal government, Chen Xiuxian, director of the NPC in Yiwu, chairman of Yiwu Friendship Association, led a delegation to visit Finland. During the visit, both governments signed the friendship memorandum, and discussed issues as the economic and trade, science and technology, education, civil service exchanges and cooperation under the framework agreement.