The number of Chinese cities and provinces among the foreign partners of Polish regions has been increasing steadily, with 11 Polish voivodships now declaring active cooperation with Chinese partners. The local authorities are taking advantage of intensified relations at the governmental level and China’s growing interest in Poland and Central Europe. The aim of the article is to characterise Polish-Chinese partnerships at the regional level and to examine how the broader context of Polish-Chinese relations affects cooperation at the lower level of administration.
All Polish regions have foreign partners and participate in international projects. Despite the dominance of partners from the European Union (62% of all partnerships) and from the neighboring countries (52%), more and more relations are developing with distant regions, such as some Chinese provinces or parts of Georgia. There is no single model of cooperation and no single factor that might indicate the direction where Polish regions are most likely to look for partners.
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