Madam Vice Mayor Dr. Liu Hongzhi, from Chattanooga’s Chinese Sister City, Wuxi, will have the opportunity to tour Chattanooga flying with well-known aerial photographer and pilot Ron Lowery on Saturday. They will depart from the Collegedale Airport on Saturday at 5 p.m. The airport is located on 5100 Bess Moore Road, Apison, Tn., 423 236-5008.
Lowery’s aerial photographs of Chattanooga and the Tennessee River, shot from his open cockpit green airplane, are exhibited in the rotunda in the Chattanooga Lovell Field Terminal. Madam Vice Mayor Hongzhi is in charge of Environment and Parks and Recreation in Wuxi.
Mr. Lowery will take the opportunity to demonstrate the beauty of the Tennessee River and Chattanooga waterfront development from a unique perspective in his experimental aircraft.
Madam Vice Mayor Dr. Liu Hongzhi holds a doctoral degree in environmental science. Her purpose of visiting Chattanooga is to attend Arbor Day Celebration at the Peace Grove on Coolidge Park and to tour the new Volkswagen plant with local officials. She is also assisting in an exchange of photographs of the city.
Local pictures of the Chattanooga area, including Mr. Lowery’s, were recently exhibited at the opening of a new art museum in Wuxi. Sister City officials are working to do a reciprocal exhibit of 80 Wuxi photographs here in Chattanooga soon.
Dr. Hongzhi is also working with local representatives to build a classic oriental garden which will be the first one in southeast U.S.