Nottingham City Council says it is considering the 'behaviour and values' of the Chinese Government as a review continues into whether its links with part of the country should be scrapped. Nottingham has had an official relationship with the Chinese city of Ningbo since 2004, when the University of Nottingham opened a 14 acre campus there.
Ningbo is one of China's oldest cities, located on the country's east coast around two hours south of Shanghai. Its other visible links with Nottingham include the Ningbo Friendship Bridge, which was officially named as such in 2016.
Despite the successful partnership between the two cities, some campaigners in recent years have called for it to end. Protesters took to the Old Market Square last year to demand an end to the twinning arrangement due to what they described as the "ongoing oppression and persecution" of people in Hong Kong.
