2024-01-02 10:18:33
Still healing its painful wounds six months after the terrible night of urban riots of June 30, 2023 following the death of Nahel, the town of Montargis (Loiret) places the year 2024 under the sign of hope and reconstruction. A bridge, topped with a pagoda roof for around forty meters, will soon span the Loing river which crosses the Venice of Gâtinais.
A gift offered by the Chinese State to celebrate the long years of friendship with the commune of Loiret. From 1902 to the end of the 1920s, Montargis attracted nearly 4,000 Chinese intellectuals, including future dignitaries such as the future Chinese No. 1 Deng Xiaoping and Xiang Jingyu, the first woman to open a school in China. Originally from the province of Hunan in particular, they came to study and work in the city’s factories. Since the city is a place of pilgrimage for many Chinese tourists.
The bridge in question was designed by the architect Zhang Chunyan, dean of the faculty of Tianjin and the site will be entrusted to a subsidiary of a construction company in the Middle Kingdom. The start of work is expected in the spring, as soon as the soil studies have been completed. Eager to look to the future, the mayor of Montargis Benoit Digeon (LR) must sign a partnership agreement with the project manager for the delivery of “what must become a tourist attraction by the end of the “year 2024,” he rejoices.
We begin to dream here that Xi Jinping, the current Chinese number 1, honors the invitation to Montargis sent to him in a letter in November by Benoit Digeon. The Chinese president has actually planned to visit France in 2024 to celebrate the 60th anniversary of diplomatic relations between the two countries.
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