Italy and China agree to boost economic ties following Meloni-Xi meeting

Evoking the old Silk Road travelled by Marco Polo, Meloni said her five-day trip to China aims to relaunch bilateral cooperation with Beijing.

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00:00Italian Prime Minister Giorgia Maloney has met with Chinese President Xi Jinping on her

00:06first official visit to China.

00:11Maloney says her five-day trip aims to relaunch bilateral cooperation and explore new forms

00:18of collaboration between the two nations.

00:21The best way to celebrate these two anniversaries is to maintain that channel that was started

00:29700 years ago by Marco Polo, to promote economic, commercial, cultural and scientific relations

00:39but also multilateral dialogue in a very complex time like the one we are living in, because

00:44the world around us is changing.

00:47Xi Jinping echoed Maloney's sentiments and highlighted the historical mutual trust between

00:52China and Italy.

01:16Maloney's meeting with Xi Jinping follows her appearance at a joint business forum

01:33with Chinese Premier Li Cheng, during which the pair signed a package of agreements aimed

01:39at strengthening industrial relations between their countries.

01:47The agreements included a pledge to increase cooperation on electric vehicles, which have

01:52recently become a symbol of growing trade tensions between China and the EU.