Denise Bax, secretary of the UNESCO Creative Cities Network, presented the certificate designating Wuxi as a UNESCO City of Music to Mayor Jiang Feng on Nov 15 on Bogong Island in Wuxi, Jiangsu province.
Wuxi was officially selected as part of the Creative Cities Network by UNESCO on Oct 31, becoming China's first City of Music.
Russian accordion players Eduard Akhanov and Sergey Osokin, along with Portuguese accordion player Vitor Pastor, kicked off their four-day tour of music in Wuxi on July 10, marking the launch of the city's international musician-in-residence program.