International Urban and Regional Cooperation in Asia and the Pacific - Bilateral Action China (IURC China) The action represents a second phase of the International Urban Cooperation programme (IUC) with a view to taking forward and developing further the achievements of the first phase, 2016-2020. IURC China will support the European Union (EU) to carry out a range of activities in the following two thematic strands of cooperation: 1) city-to-city cooperation in the field of sustainable urban development and 2) region-to-region cooperation at sub-national level in the field of innovation.