Shanghai – The Ice – Agency for the promotion abroad and the internationalization of Italian companies in organizing an Italian collective participation in Music China 2014, to be held in Shanghai from October 8 to 11 at the SNIEC Exhibition Centre (Shanghai New International Expo Centre) . Thr Chinese market represents a great opportunity for Italian manufacturers of musical instruments: there are more than 100 symphony orchestras, including 14 in the sole capital, and 25 conservatories including two in Beijing and one in Shanghai. In the ranking of countries supplying China, Italy remains stable at the seventh place with a value of exports in 2012 amounted to 4,780,000 dollars. (9Colonne)