The agreement was signed by Chu Xiaobo, director of the Shanghai Museum, and Mostafa Waziri, secretary general of the Egypt Supreme Council of Antiquities, and witnessed by Yang Ronghao, cultural counsellor for the Chinese Embassy in Egypt and director of the China Cultural Center in Cairo, and Ahmed Issa, Egypt’s Minister of Tourism and Antiquities.
Issa expressed his pleasure about the upcoming exhibition in China, especially in light of the close and long-standing relations between Egypt and China, which are among the oldest civilizations in the world. He believed that the exhibition will be a platform for advertising Egyptian tourism products in China.
