On June 12 and 13, Kim Kyungil, Mayor of Paju, the ROK, led a delegation to visit Shenyang and attended the opening ceremony of the Second Liaoning International Friendship Cities Conference. At the conference, Shenyang and Paju jointly signed an agreement to establish a friendly and cooperative relationship. By now, the number of Shenyang's international sister cities has increased to 104.

Paju is located in the northwest of Gyeonggi Province, with an area of about 672.6 square kilometers and a population of about 530,000. It focuses on developing industries such as tourism, publishing culture, electronic information, and biomedicine.

Both sides stated that they will take the establishment of the friendly and cooperative relationship as an opportunity to actively promote friendly exchanges and practical cooperation in fields such as culture and tourism, economy and trade, science and technology, and education, enhance friendly mutual trust, promote common development, and contribute local forces to building a healthy, stable, and continuously deepening China-ROK relationship.