On June 3, China’s De Feng Li Da Group and Italy’s IGD Group signed a cooperation agreement on the joint development of a high-class healthy tourist park, an ecological holiday resort and other projects at the Florence Base of Shanghai &Florence –Sino Italian Design Exchange Center constructed by DOBE, and wrote a new chapter of Sino-Italian cooperation under the “Belt and Road”.
De Feng Li Da Group and Italy’s IGD Group are both Sino Italian Design Exchange Center’s strategic partners. On Oct. 13, 2015, the “Sino-Italian Exchange of Cultural Economy and Trade” sponsored by De Feng Li Da Group and organized by the Florence Base of Shanghai &Florence –Sino Italian Design Exchange Center was successfully held. The two sides thus started exchange and cooperation. With headquarter in Jianwai Ave. CBD, Chaoyang District, Beijing, De Feng Li Da Group is a large diversified industries group involving tourism and health preservation, film & TV and culture, mineral resources, bioengineering, new materials, international trade, education and training, asset management and other trades. Italy’s IGD Group was jointly founded by the ABITA, Britain’s WREC, the Global Alliance of Green Buildings and the World Sustainability and Environmental Protection Organization. It has successfully executed large government projects across Europe, South America and Africa, such as the solar energy ecological development village and green business incubator, etc. With the Sino Italian Design Exchange Center as a go-between, this time the two groups joined hands and wrote a new chapter of Sino-Italian cooperation under the “Belt and Road” Initiative.
In the negotiations for cooperation this time, the two sides agreed to jointly promote the design and construction of “high-class healthy tourist parks and ecological holiday resorts” in China and other regions in Asia, establish a “l(fā)uxurious Italian green design brand” with the principle of ecology and green design as preconditions; provide the development of “real estate ecological tourism” with scientific and technical support, offer professional training in Italy, supply the best practical experience in ecological tourism (agricultural tourism, healthy hot spring trips, coastal resorts), public standards and policies, to develop in emerging markets together, with “architectural and urban green design” as the concept of development.
Over the more than half a year, the Florence Base of Shanghai &Florence –Sino Italian Design Exchange Center has worked on providing outstanding Chinese and Italian enterprises with a platform for exchange and cooperation, made efforts to promote consultations and negotiations between enterprises on the two sides, to actually put the “Belt and Road” Initiative into effect in projects, support the win-win development of China and Italy. The signing of the business cooperation agreement this time is another great achievement made by the center in the process of carrying out the “Belt and Road” Initiative.
