Linking Cities to Finance Conference was held in Shanghai International Convention Center on September 27th and 28th, 2010.The conference was co-organized by CDIA and the Shanghai Municipal Finance Bureau. The theme is "Overcoming bottlenecks to financing strategic urban infrastructure investments". Mr. Zhao Xu, Deputy Director of CCPPP of Unirule, attended the conference and made a speech in the conclusion section of the conference. He also interacted and communicated with the audience.

The Cities Development Initiative for Asia (CDIA) is a regional partnership program supported by the Asian Development Bank (ADB) and the governments of Germany, Sweden and Spain assisting medium sized Asian cities in bridging the gap between their development plans and access to funding for financing their strategic urban infrastructure.  While initial cooperation focused on linking cities to multilateral and bilateral development funding sources, increasing energies are going into identifying areas for private sector financing through Public and other modalities.