Jinan city has now begun to use springs culture as a leading field to strengthen exchanges and cooperation with other cities in the world. And the field of cooperation can be further expanded without just limited to the field of spring culture. The city can strengthen cooperation with cities with other special cultural landscapes so as to promote collaboration in economy and even technology sectors, according to Long Yongtu, former vice-minister of foreign trade and economic cooperation of China.

The conference saw the launch of Jinan global communication platform which consists of Jinan's official English website, Facebook and Twitter accounts, and bilingual WeChat account. Four parallel meetings focusing on Jinan city's international production capacity collaboration, cultural landscape protection, spring protection and sustainable utilization and international spring city tourism promotion were held after the conference.