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2015 "Friends on the Silk Road" China-Italy Dialogue Time:2015/03/31

2015 ‘Friends on the Silk Road’ China-Italy Dialogue” was co-hosted by the CFPD and Italian Parliament and supported by Zhenjian Municipal Government and Jiangsu Provincial Government on March 26th–27th, 2015. A total number of 60 participants from Italia and China were closely engaged in the Dialogue. Mr. Vinicio Peluffo, Chairman of Italian Association, led an Italian delegation encompassing members of congress, energy-related enterprises and Italian Research Institutes and the Consular of Consulate General of the Republic of Italy in Shanghai, alongside with their Chinese counterparts, including GUO Yezhou, Vice-Minister of the International Department of the CPC, Mr. FAN Yanqing, CPPCC Vice Chairman of Jiangsu Province as well as the representatives from Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Chinese Academy of Social Sciences, National Development and Reform Commission, and the Jiangsu Provincial government participated in the Dialogue.

The major theme of the Dialogue was “Sustainable Development and the China-Italy Relationship”, and three sub-themes were proposed as: 1) the OBOR and China-Italy Relationship, 2) The Energy Strategies and Sustainable Development, 3) The Opportunities for Chinese and Italian Energy Enterprises. The Dialogue had been carried on in an open-minded and enlightened manner in which some consensuses for new opportunities on the two ends of the Silk Road between China and Italy were reached. Of which was conceived as the way to provide and enable more pragmatic cooperation and close friendship to develop further at each other’s strength.

Ms. YU Xiao and ZHU Xiaoming, Mayor of Zhenjiang as keynote speakers addressed at the opening ceremony.