This is a list of places in China which have standing links to local communities in other countries known as "town twinning" (usually in Europe) or "sister cities" (usually in the rest of the world).
A Anguo
Dongdaemun (Seoul), South Korea Kushima, Japan
Anqing
Calabasas, United States Cheboksary, Russia Ibaraki, Japan Kütahya, Turkey
Anshan
Amagasaki, Japan Ansan, South Korea Birmingham, United States Bursa, Turkey Holon, Israel Lipetsk, Russia Sheffield, England, United Kingdom
B Baoding
Charlotte, United States Hafnarfjörður, Iceland Saijō, Japan Santiago de Veraguas, Panama Sønderborg, Denmark Yonago, Japan
Baotou
Mbombela, South Africa Orkhon, Mongolia
Beihai
Gold Coast, Australia Hat Yai, Thailand Imatra, Finland Jablonec nad Nisou, Czech Republic Kep, Cambodia Leduc, Canada Leduc County, Canada
Puerto Princesa, Philippines Semarang, Indonesia Suva, Fiji Tulsa, United States Yatsushiro, Japan
Beijing
Addis Ababa, Ethiopia Ankara, Turkey Astana, Kazakhstan Athens, Greece Bangkok, Thailand Berlin, Germany Brussels, Belgium Bucharest, Romania Budapest, Hungary Buenos Aires, Argentina Cairo, Egypt Canberra, Australia Cologne, Germany Copenhagen, Denmark Delhi, India Doha, Qatar Dublin, Ireland Gauteng, South Africa Hanoi, Vietnam Havana, Cuba Île-de-France, France Islamabad, Pakistan Jakarta, Indonesia Kyiv, Ukraine Lima, Peru London, England, United Kingdom Manila, Philippines Minsk, Belarus Mexico City, Mexico Moscow, Russia New South Wales, Australia New York City, United States Ottawa, Canada Phnom Penh, Cambodia Riga, Latvia Rio de Janeiro, Brazil San José, Costa Rica Santiago, Chile Seoul, South Korea Tehran, Iran Tel Aviv, Israel Tirana, Albania Tokyo, Japan Ulaanbaatar, Mongolia Vientiane, Laos Washington, D.C., United States Wellington, New Zealand
Bengbu
Barra Mansa, Brazil Bergamo, Italy Settsu, Japan Szolnok, Hungary Tameside, England, United Kingdom
Bozhou
Cognac, France Kyōtango, Japan Quevedo, Ecuador Shimanto, Japan
Vinhedo, Brazil Witzenberg, South Africa Yeongju, South Korea
C Changchun
Chongjin, North Korea Hjørring, Denmark Krasnoyarsk, Russia Little Rock, United States Masterton, New Zealand Minsk, Belarus Novi Sad, Serbia Plovdiv, Bulgaria Prachinburi, Thailand Sendai, Japan Tijuana, Mexico Ulan-Ude, Russia Ulsan, South Korea Warrnambool, Australia Windsor, Canada Žilina, Slovakia
Changji Barnaul, Russia
Changsha
Brazzaville, Congo Gumi, South Korea Kagoshima, Japan Mogilev, Belarus Mons, Belgium New Haven, United States Ölfus, Iceland Saint Paul, United States Sol Plaatje, South Africa Ulyanovsk, Russia
Changshu
Ayabe, Japan
Essaouira, Morocco Satsumasendai, Japan Townsville, Australia Whittier, United States
Changzhou
Beau Bassin-Rose Hill, Mauritius Buffalo, United States Caxias do Sul, Brazil Curitiba, Brazil Dar es Salaam, Tanzania Eskişehir, Turkey Essen, Germany Georges River, Australia Jelenia Góra, Poland Johor Bahru, Malaysia Minden, Germany Namyangju, South Korea Netanya, Israel Niagara Falls, Canada Prato, Italy Rockford, United States Satakunta, Finland La Serena, Chile Solihull, England, United Kingdom Stavropol, Russia Tapachula, Mexico Takatsuki, Japan Tilburg, Netherlands Tokorozawa, Japan Torrington, United States Wyndham, Australia
Chaohu
Dole, France Pergamino, Argentina
Chengdu
Bengaluru, India Bonn, Germany Chiang Mai, Thailand Daegu, South Korea Fez, Morocco Fingal, Ireland Flemish Brabant, Belgium Gimcheon, South Korea Gold Coast, Australia Gomel, Belarus Haifa, Israel Hamilton, New Zealand Honolulu, United States Horsens, Denmark Kathmandu, Nepal Kōfu, Japan Lahore, Pakistan Linz, Austria Ljubljana, Slovenia Łódź, Poland Luang Prabang, Laos Maastricht, Netherlands Maputo, Mozambique Mechelen, Belgium Medan, Indonesia Montpellier, France Nashville, United States Palermo, Italy Perth, Australia Phoenix, United States La Plata, Argentina Recife, Brazil Sheffield, England, United Kingdom Volgograd, Russia Winnipeg, Canada Zapopan, Mexico
Chenzhou Laredo, United States
Chizhou
Cumberland, Australia Florencio Varela, Argentina Gurye, South Korea Svenljunga, Sweden
Chongqing
Antwerp Province, Belgium Aswan, Egypt Bangkok, Thailand Brisbane, Australia Chennai, India Chiang Mai, Thailand Córdoba Province, Argentina Detroit, United States Düsseldorf, Germany Gers, France Hiroshima, Japan Incheon, South Korea Leicester, England, United Kingdom Maribor, Slovenia Mpumalanga, South Africa Pest County, Hungary Phnom Penh, Cambodia Pitești, Romania Seattle, United States Shiraz, Iran Sliven, Bulgaria Toronto, Canada Toulouse, France Ulaanbaatar, Mongolia Vladimir, Russia Voronezh, Russia Zaporizhzhia Oblast, Ukraine
Chongqing – Nanchuan Linden, Guyana
Cixi
Bayside, Australia Bakersfield, United States
D Dalian
Bremen, Germany Cape Breton, Canada Enschede, Netherlands Glasgow, Scotland, United Kingdom Kitakyushu, Japan Le Havre, France Maizuru, Japan
Oakland, United States Pointe-Noire, Congo Rostock, Germany Vladivostok, Russia
Dandong Wilmington, United States
Daqing
Calgary, Canada Charters Towers, Australia East London, South Africa Quatre Bornes, Mauritius Tyumen, Russia
Datong
Bury, England, United Kingdom Ōmuta, Japan
Deqing
Monticello, United States Valls, Spain
Deyang
Gangneung, South Korea Higashihiroshima, Japan Konin, Poland Lahti, Finland Muncie, United States Siegen-Wittgenstein (district), Germany
Dujiangyan
Ähtäri, Finland Borna, Germany Chūō, Japan Gisors-Epte-Lévrière (intercommunality), France Kai, Japan Minami-Alps, Japan Ōtake, Japan Shōwa, Japan
Dunhuang
Aurangabad, India Kamakura, Japan Namhae, South Korea
E Emeishan Kashiwazaki, Japan
F Foshan
Ingolstadt, Germany Itami, Japan Naro-Fominsky District, Russia Port Louis, Mauritius Port Vila, Vanuatu La Possession, Réunion, France St. George's, Grenada Starogard Gdański, Poland Stockton, United States Townsville, Australia
Fuzhou
Campinas, Brazil Georgetown, Guyana Hạ Long, Vietnam
Honolulu, United States Koszalin, Poland Liège, Belgium Manila, Philippines Mombasa, Kenya Nagasaki, Japan Naha, Japan Nouadhibou, Mauritania Omsk, Russia Río Gallegos, Argentina Semarang, Indonesia Shoalhaven, Australia Siem Reap, Cambodia Syracuse, United States Tacoma, United States
G Guang'an
Boulogne-Billancourt, France Gumi, South Korea
Guanghan Auburn, United States
Guangzhou
Ahmedabad, India Arequipa, Peru Auckland, New Zealand Bangkok, Thailand Bari, Italy Birmingham, England, United Kingdom Bristol, England, United Kingdom Buenos Aires, Argentina Dubai, United Arab Emirates Durban, South Africa Frankfurt am Main, Germany Fukuoka, Japan Gwangju, South Korea Hambantota, Sri Lanka Harare, Zimbabwe Istanbul, Turkey Kazan, Russia Kuwait City, Kuwait
Łódź, Poland Los Angeles, United States Lyon, France Manila, Philippines Mombasa, Kenya Noboribetsu, Japan Pokhara, Nepal Quito, Ecuador Rabat, Morocco Recife, Brazil San José, Costa Rica Santiago, Chile Surabaya, Indonesia Sydney, Australia Tampere, Finland Valencia, Spain Vancouver, Canada Vilnius, Lithuania Yekaterinburg, Russia
Guilin
Hạ Long, Vietnam Hastings, New Zealand Hévíz, Hungary Jeju City, South Korea Kakogawa, Japan Kumamoto, Japan Muratpaşa, Turkey Orlando, United States Târgoviște, Romania Toruń, Poland
Guiyang
Fort Worth, United States County Meath, Ireland Palmerston North, New Zealand Rio de Janeiro, Brazil Vicenza, Italy
H Haikou
Åland, Finland Antalya, Turkey Chornomorsk, Ukraine Darwin, Australia Donghae, South Korea Faiyum, Egypt Faro, Portugal Gdynia, Poland Haeundae (Busan), South Korea Honolulu, United States Islamabad, Pakistan Krabi, Thailand Lahore, Pakistan Malacca City, Malaysia Modi'in-Maccabim-Re'ut, Israel Nanaimo, Canada Oklahoma City, United States Perth, Scotland, United Kingdom Pisa Province, Italy Qazvin, Iran Scottsdale, United States Tagaytay, Philippines Victoria, Seychelles Vladimir, Russia Waterford, Ireland Whangarei, New Zealand Yangon, Myanmar Zanzibar City, Tanzania
Hami Nyūzen, Japan
Handan
Dubuque, United States Inari, Finland Padua, Italy Saiki, Japan
Hangzhou
Agadir, Morocco Baguio, Philippines Beit Shemesh, Israel Benito Juárez, Mexico Boston, United States El Calafate, Argentina Cape Town, South Africa Curitiba, Brazil Dresden, Germany Fukui, Japan Gifu, Japan Greenwich, United States Hamamatsu, Japan Heidelberg, Germany Indianapolis, United States Kazan, Russia Kota Kinabalu, Malaysia Leeds, England, United Kingdom Lugano, Switzerland Maribor, Slovenia Montego Bay, Jamaica Nadi, Fiji Nice, France Oviedo, Spain Oulu, Finland Paramaribo, Surinam Pisa, Italy Seogwipo, South Korea Split, Croatia Yeosu, South Korea
Hangzhou – Fuyang Riverbank, United States
Hangzhou – Xiaoshan Yamanashi, Japan
Harbin
Aarhus, Denmark Arras (communauté), France Asahikawa, Japan Bucheon, South Korea Cagayan de Oro, Philippines Chalandri, Greece Chiang Mai, Thailand Daugavpils, Latvia Edmonton, Canada Ekurhuleni, South Africa Erzurum, Turkey Fairfax County, United States Givatayim, Israel Gomel, Belarus Griffith, Australia Khabarovsk, Russia Krasnodar, Russia Magdeburg, Germany Minneapolis, United States Murmansk, Russia Niigata, Japan Nyíregyháza, Hungary Ploiești, Romania Punta Arenas, Chile Riccione, Italy Rokiškis, Lithuania Rovaniemi, Finland Salvador, Brazil South Taranaki, New Zealand Sunderland, England, United Kingdom Sverdlovsk Oblast, Russia Užice, Serbia Vitebsk, Belarus Vladivostok, Russia Wiener Neustadt, Austria Yakutsk, Russia
Harbin – Daoli Pervouralsk, Russia
Hefei
Aalborg, Denmark Belfast, Northern Ireland, United Kingdom Bujumbura, Burundi Columbus, United States Darebin, Australia Freetown, Sierra Leone Kurume, Japan Lleida, Spain Nizhny Novgorod, Russia Osnabrück, Germany Phnom Penh, Cambodia Ufa, Russia Wonju, South Korea
Hegang Birobidzhan, Russia
Heihe
Blagoveshchensk, Russia Krasnoyarsk, Russia Yakutsk, Russia
Hengshui
Tillsonburg, Canada Tultitlán, Mexico
Huai'an
Cuenca, Ecuador Gomel, Belarus Kolpino (Saint Petersburg), Russia
Magnitogorsk, Russia Oakville, Canada Płock, Poland Sassnitz, Germany
Wanju, South Korea Yorba Linda, United States
Huaibei
Ruse, Bulgaria Ub, Serbia
Huainan
Barra Mansa, Brazil Bergamo, Italy Settsu, Japan Szolnok, Hungary Tameside, England, United Kingdom
Huangshan
Dong (Daegu), South Korea Fujiidera, Japan Interlaken, Switzerland Serravalle, San Marino Stralsund, Germany
Huizhou
Milpitas, United States North Vancouver, Canada
Hulunbuir
Chita, Russia Ulan-Ude, Russia
Hulunbuir – Hailar
Chinggis City, Mongolia Chita, Russia
J Jiamusi
Avellino Province, Italy Donghae, South Korea Komsomolsk-on-Amur, Russia Nirasaki, Japan Shoalhaven, Australia
Jiangmen
Kota Kinabalu, Malaysia Lautoka, Fiji Maia, Portugal Riverside, United States
Jiangyin
Alameda, United States Belo Horizonte, Brazil Faaa, French Polynesia Fujioka, Japan
Jiaxing
Bunbury, Australia Fuji, Japan Gangneung, South Korea Halle, Germany Imatra, Finland Rebild, Denmark
Jilin City
Mangyongdae (Pyongyang), North Korea Matsue, Japan Nakhodka, Russia Prince Albert, Canada Spokane, United States Volgograd, Russia Yamagata, Japan
Jinan
Arba Minch, Ethiopia Augsburg, Germany Civitavecchia, Italy Coventry, England, United Kingdom Joondalup, Australia Kazanlak, Bulgaria Kfar Saba, Israel Kharkiv, Ukraine Marmaris, Turkey Nagpur, India Nizhny Novgorod, Russia Port Moresby, Papua New Guinea Porto Velho, Brazil Praia, Cape Verde Regina, Canada Rennes, France