MATTEO RENZI FLIES TO EXPORT TO CHINA MADE IN ITALY

Food processing, environmental technology and sustainable development, health services and health, urbanization. These are the four packages identified for collaboration between Italy and China.

Matteo Renzi, now Hanoi, Vietnam Italian first president since 1973, will be tomorrow in the People’s Republic. A visit postponed for a few months. The original program included Enrico Letta fact that it was in April to go beyond Wall, but the Italian events have changed plans and schedule.

The fields of cooperation shown by a series of workshops organized by the Italy-China Foundation in the months leading up to the trip Renzi reflect some of the goals that the new Chinese leadership has set itself in the process of transition of the second largest economy in the world by a growth model based primarily on the amount and numbers of GDP to a model that looks at the quality, sustainability and development of domestic demand.

The visit of the Prime Minister in the People’s Republic comes on the heels of a series of investments that have seen giants Chinese players in Italy. Last March, the report revealed significant investments Consob on the shares of the People’s Bank of China, the central bank in Beijing, Eni and Enel, respectively, equal to 2.1 per cent and 2.07 per cent. A sign of the interest of China to Italy, aimed particularly at leading companies. Noto is also the interest of the State Grid of China, the state manager for about 80 percent of China’s power grid, for CDP Networks. While a few weeks ago, in the presence of the same Matteo Renzi, has an agreement with Shanghai Electric, which found 40 percent of Ansaldo Energia from Italian Strategic Fund.

In recent months, has also written the encounter between Roman Renzi and Jack Ma, founder of e-commerce giant Alibaba. According to leaked these days, by the visit of Chinese Renzi and the Minister for Economic Development, Federica Guidi, should lead to an agreement with the e-commerce platform for the promotion of Made in Italy. The Shanghai round score finally seamless transition between the Expo 2010 in the city on the Huangpu River and the next year in Milan, where the Chinese pavilion will be second only to that extent Italian.

Away from the economic, although not concern purely Italy, on the eve of the trip to the Far East Renzi, the South China Morning Post reported hypothesis of a resumption of dialogue between Beijing and the Vatican. Opportunity related to the change of leadership in both the Holy See, with the election of Francis, both with the passage on horseback between 2012 and 2013 from the fourth to the fifth generation of Chinese leaders. A dialogue which is rumored since the passage of an interview with the Pope himself to the Corriere della Sera reported that an exchange of letters with the President of China, Xi Jinping.