As announced on 30 November 2015, the City of Ghent has become a new structural partner of the Flanders-China Chamber of Commerce (FCCC). With its 252,000 inhabitants, Ghent is the second largest city in Flanders.
Over 70,000 students make Ghent the largest student city in Flanders, including Ghent University that ranks 71st on the ‘2015 Academic Ranking of World Universities’. The young heart of the city boosts innovation and creativity. Ghent is a city that combines a strong logistic and industrial complex and hi-tech knowledge activities. The city’s seaport provides over 60,000 jobs and generates a surplus value of €6,7 billion. The city is developing a pro-active approach to attract activities of world-leading companies that strengthen the existing industrial clusters in the cleantech, biotech, materials and ICT sector.

Ghent is linked with China in various ways:

• In November 2013 Ghent and the Chinese city of Weihai signed an agreement within the context of the China-EU Partnership on Sustainable Urbanization.
• Various companies in Ghent do business with China. Volvo Car Gent is one of the biggest employers of the Ghent region. The factory is part of the Volvo Car, owned since 2010 by China’s Geely Holding Group.
• Ghent is an attractive city for Chinese tourists to visit.
• The City of Ghent, together with Ghent University, the Flanders-China Chamber of Commerce and Port of Ghent form the China Platform, a central point of contact for all matters relating to China. It directs, coordinates and supports initiatives in education, research and business.

I am from Ghent where I also attended the university to study engineering.
See the text here: City of Ghent and FCCC
Beijing has a special representative of the University,