At the invitation of Mayor of Kazan, Ms. Zhang Ruoning, the deputy director general of European and Eurasian affairs department led a delegation to attend the 2016 World Executive Bureau Meeting of UCLG held in Kazan, Russia from May 25th to 27th . There are more than 300 delegates present at the meeting. The president of Republic of Tatarstan Minnikhanov and the co-president of UCLG, the mayor of Kazan Metshin attended the meeting and delivered a speech respectively.