Nagpur: The city of Nagpur and Chinese city of Jinan have become sister cities after signing a pact which allows for exchange of ideas and technology in the field of education, sports, youth affairs, urban planning among other areas.

The Nagpur Municipal Corporation (NMC) and Jinan, in a historic move, entered into an agreement yesterday to develop sister-city relationship. Nagpur civic commissioner Shravan Hardikar and Director of Jinan Municipal People's Congress, Xu Changyu, signed the pact here in the presence of Nagpur mayor Pravin Datke and officials from the visiting Chinese delegation.