Ahead of Italian Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni’s upcoming visit to China from Saturday to July 31, Italian business representatives have demonstrated upbeat expectations for further deepening bilateral economic and trade exchanges that will also benefit the China-Europe relations, bolstered by Chinese megamarket’s broad potential in various sectors and its manufacturing and innovative strengths.
Chinese and Italian companies can forge synergistic partnerships, yielding mutual business advantages, with the objective of meeting demanding targets for high-tech equipment, developing new innovative solutions and even jointly targeting third markets, Massimo Bagnasco, CEO of China Europe Carbon Neutral Technology (Chengdu), told the Global Times on Thursday. The company is dedicated to supporting and significantly contributing to the path toward carbon neutrality in both China and Europe.
Foreign companies should consider China as a significant market, which is almost the largest market in the world and still growing, Alberto Borini, general manager of Chengdu BPlan Tech Co Ltd, told the Global Times on Friday. Launched at the end of 2019, the Italian high-tech enterprise plans to mass produce devices by the fourth quarter of 2024 and will market toward Chinese customers in 2025.
Meloni’s visit to China aims to further build up mutual trust while expanding cooperation despite Italy’s previous withdrawal from the China-proposed Belt and Road Initiative, Zhao Junjie, a research fellow at the Chinese Academy of Social Sciences’ Institute of European Studies, told the Global Times on Friday.