Hailing Austin and Chengdu as "forward-looking cities," and "cities that are technology and innovation centers," Adler saw ample possibilities for an upgrade of their relations.

"Conversations and meetings like this will lead to science city, friendship city kinds of relationship. That is in our future. I think there are going to be lots of different kinds of relationships," he said.

By strengthening the ties between the two innovation-driven cities, a win-win scenario will be created, Chinese Consul General in Houston Li Qiangmin said at the promotion event.

The event was held on the sidelines of the 10-day South by Southwest (SXSW) Conference and Festivals, a platform that gathers innovators and entrepreneurs from across the globe to breed and fund novel ideas.

A Chinese delegation of more than 100 people, twice the size of that last year, showed up at SXSW 2019 that opened Friday, comprising those from Chengdu and companies like China's e-commerce giant Alibaba Group.

We came to "inspire others and get inspired by others," said Shanying Leung, design director of Alibaba's online payment platform Alipay.

"The delegations from China are a very significant part of what makes SXSW very special, and the delegation from Chengdu is the largest ever we've received from a Chinese city," the Austin mayor said.

"Chinese delegations are now creating quite a storm, quite an excitement just because of the size of the delegations," he added.

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