Thursday to Venice will hold a forum for the development of the relations between Italy and China



Next thursday to Venice, in the Room of the Columns of House Giustinian, center of the Biennial one of Venice, will hold the Silk Road Cities Cooperation Forum promoted from China Public Diplomacy Association, one of the more important associations than governmental emanation of the Chinese Popular Republic, and from the Silk Road Cities Alliance that groups all the cities which placed along the Way of the Silk.

In the course of the encounter, that he will have beginning to 9 hours and which will participate between the others the minister of Foreign countries, Paolo Gentiloni, the undersecretary to the Ministry of the Economy and Finance, Pierpaolo Baretta, and the former minister of Foreign countries Chinese, Li Zhaoxing, a thick delegation of about 160 representatives of the public truths and private Chineses and Italians will be engaged in confront profit to the creation of partnership concrete in favor of the development of the relations between Italy and China.

Al salute of opening of the mayor of the lagoon city, Luigi Brugnaro, will follow those of Roberto Ciambetti, regional Prime Minister of Veneto, of the president of the Biennial one of Venice, Paolo Baratta, of Walter Hartsarich, president of the Musei Civici Foundation of Venice, of Michele Bugliesi, chancellor of the University House Foscari. The participations of Francesco Rutelli, former minister of the Culture and former mayor of Rome, and Hao Yaohua, president of the Silk Road Cities Alliance, will launch the topic of the Way of the Silk of ventunesimo the century: not more single history and memory, but opportunity of economic development and cultural contemporary.

The event will conclude with the signature of an action plan inspired to the document "Vision and actions on the Way of the marine Silk of 21mo the century" approved of from the National Commission for the Development and the Reforms, from the State Department and the Ministry of the Commerce of the Chinese Popular Republic. They will take to part to the debate also the scientific director of the Foundation the Northeast, Stefano Micelli, vice-president of China Public Diplomacy Association, Shu Yi, the executive director of CMA CGM Italy in representation of Ocean Three Alliance, Paolo Lo Bianco, the representative of the port of Rizhao, Meng Fanxiang, and president of Save (Aeroporto of Venice), Enrico Marchi.

The work will be closed from the signature of the "Declaration of Venice for the Way of the Silk of the Ventunesimo Century" and from the signature of four important understanding memorandum between which those between the ports of Venice and Ningbo and that for the creation of to informative platform for the Cities of the Way of the Silk.