Dubai and the Chinese City of Shanghai have discussed ways of strengthening mutual cooperation and expanding bilateral relations in the field of municipal works, in pursuance of a twinning agreement signed by the two cities in 2000. This came in a meeting on Monday at Dubai Municipality headquarters attended by Hussain Nasser Lootah, Acting Director General of Dubai Municipality, and Han Zheng, Mayor of Shanghai, who led a 14-member delegation consisting of senior Shanghai municipal officials and prominent CEOs from the city. While receiving the delegation, Lootah praised the Chinese people and their government for the outstanding success of Olympics 2008 and noted that this shows the exemplary technical and administrative skills of the Chinese people. He briefed the Shanghai delegation on Dubai Municipality's major tasks such as urban planning, supervision of building and construction activities in the city, undertaking landscaping and city beautification projects, environment conservation, providing adequate drainage and irrigation network, overseeing public health and safety, and food control, among other things. 'One of our recent accomplishments is in the field of e-Governance as we have transferred more than 90% of civic services to e-Services and we are aiming for zero visits of the customers to the municipal offices, which we hope will be accomplished very soon, ' Lootah said. --MORE
