Domestic: Sinan County
Organization with sisterhood relationship
- Category: Sisterhood agreement
- Target local government: Sinan County of South Jeolla Province
- Date concluding sisterhood agreement: June 2, 1977
History of exchange with sisterhood organizations
- Sinan County → Ongjin County
- September 17, 1987 : Visited Ongjin County by the Governor of Sinan County
- September 03, 2003 : Attended the event for the Day of Ongjin County’s Citizens (Governor of Sinan County, 8 people aside from the Chair)
- September 14, 2005 : Attended the Day of Ongjin County’s Citizens (Governor of Sinan County, 5 people aside from the Chair)
- September 14, 2007 : Attended the Day of Ongjin County’s Citizens (2 people aside from the Vice-Governor of Sinan County)
- Ongjin County → Sinan County
- September 28, 1987 : Visited Sinan County by the Governor of Ongjin County
- August 21, 1993 : Visited the Sinan County Council with the Chair and 7 members from Ongjin County Council
- March 18, 1996 : Visited the Sinan County Council with the Chair and 6 members from Ongjin County Council
- November 06 ~ November 07, 2001 : Educated the leaders of Ri by visiting Heuksando Island in Sinan County (76 people aside from the Governor)
- April 08, 2003 : Attended the Day of Sinan County’s Citizens (4 people aside from the Governor and Chair)
- May 21 ~ May 22, 2008 : Observed the fishery facility (4 people including Governor)
Overseas: Xiangshan District, Zhejiang, China
Organization with sisterhood relationship
- Category: Sisterhood agreement
- City name: Xiangshan District, Zhejiang, China
- Date concluding sisterhood agreement: October 26, 2004
- Website : http://www.xiangshan.gov.cn
- Location: East Zhejiang, China
Local characteristics
- It is located 60km southeast of Ningbo. It is a wide region of the peninsula between the Xiangshan Port and Sanmen Bay; its fishing industry is developed.
- Xiangshan Port is deep and has a wide entrance to the bay; thus, it allows accommodation of large vessels. Since it is surrounded by mountains, it is good as an anchorage port. It is also known as a reservoir of fluorite and its name comes from Mt. Xiangshan.
Progress of sisterhood relationship
- Ongjin County has been making substantial progress in exchanges with China as the main figure in the west coast area through exchanges of important public officials in the fishing industry, joint development of fisheries technologies, dispatch of delegations during festivals in both regions, etc. with Xiangshan District, Ningbo City, Zhejiang, China.
- The MOU for the friendly relationship with Xiangshan District, China was concluded on October 26, 2004. After the discussions, both parties agreed to the visit of the Director of Xiangshan District accompanied with a delegation from the Xiangshan District Fishery Technology Research Institute to Ongjin and visit of the joint developer and workers of the fish culture from Ongjin to Xiangshan for discussion and exchange on fish culture development. In addition, they agreed to send a delegation in case of local festivals in both areas.
- Xiangshan District visited the Municipal Aquaculture Research Center in Yeongheung-myeon of Ongjin County and showed a lot of interest in the aquaculture field. In addition, Xiangshan is actively promoting various activities by sending delegations at local festivals to promote internationalization and exchange during local events.