The twinning relationship of counterpart assistance "comprehensively considers the original relationship between the east and the west, the economic situation of the recipients, the difficulty of the recipient areas and the basis of cooperation between the two sides, and determines that counterpart assistance will be carried out by 8 cities in 6 provinces (municipalities directly under the Central Government) such as Liaoning, Shanghai, Jiangsu, Zhejiang, Shandong and Guangdong, and 8 cities (states) in Guizhou. Namely, Shanghai helped Zunyi City, Dalian helped Liupanshui City, Suzhou helped tongren city, Hangzhou helped Qiandongnan Prefecture, Ningbo helped Qianxinan Prefecture, Qingdao helped Anshun City, Guangzhou helped Qiannan Prefecture and Shenzhen helped Bijie City.