Consul General of Italy in Shanghai delivers New Year speech
Source:english.eastday.com Date:2016-02-05
意大利驻上海总领事 裴思泛
Stefano Beltrame
Consul General of Italy in Shanghai
你们好！Thank you for interviewing me, it is a great pleasure.
你们好！谢谢你们的采访，我很荣幸。
Let me take one step back. It has been 400 years now that
scientific cooperation between Italy and China started. If you go to visit one
of my favorite places here in Shanghai in Xuhui, Xu Guangqi Memorial, you can
see Matteo Ricci and Xu Guangqi talking about astronomy with Galileo telescope.
Italy and China now has this cooperation on the dioxide of the moon in space. We would like to cooperate here
in Shanghai by increasing the number of Italian professors teaching in Chinese
universities. In eastern China, there are about 50 Italian professors, we like
to increase the number a big more.
"One Belt and One
Road", in Italy we like it very much. We called it New Silk Road. We Italy
remember very well the first Silk Road was made by Italians coming from Venice
to China like Marco Polo going to Hangzhou and Yangzhou. And now we are happy
to see after many years Chinese go their way on and go back to the same way.We would like to cooperate with China in many fields, in
the maritime.
I love Shanghai. I have been here almost for one year and a half. I am still
amazed to see our lively, pushing and fast-growing city.
我爱上海。我来到上海有一年半了，对这座城市的活力、进取与快速发展依然感到惊叹。
We have new Italy Initiative this year. Urbanization is
one of prosper cooperation between Italy and China. City like Shanghai is one
of the suitable places.
Italy for example is the No.1 producers of CV helicopters;
in everywhere in the world big cities like Shanghai have a lot of helicopters
for transportation. China is opening up low-altitude aviation market. I think there will be a few of
cooperation in the city of Shanghai which can be very interesting for both
sides.
