(Tuesday, 12 April 2016) The cooperation between Marche region and China grows and get stronger. “We conclude the first day of work in the Chinese capital city with good results and the awareness that the regional system, in the fields of health and hospital education, of tourism and of economic and commercial cooperation, will have concrete opportunities to grow and develop”. This statement is by the President of Marche region , Luca Ceriscioli, after an intense meeting day in Peking, closed by a meeting by the Italian Embassy with Ambassador Ettore Sequi. All most relevant co-workers of the diplomatic team in China were present: the economy and law Embassy’s chief officers, the ones from the Consulate, from the Ice Agency, from the Italian Cultural Institute, from the Italian Commerce Chamber in China. The meeting with Zhang Junhua, Deputy Director of the National Health and Family Planning Commission of the People’s Republic of China HHRDC Health Human Resources Development Centre (at the presence of the two regional Univeristies’ deans) made it possible for President Ceriscioli to set the framework for a incresead cooperation development between the health, universitary and economic structures of the two parties. This agreement, which will be implemented in a short time through an operative protocol, strengthens and amplifies the yet existing cooperation between Marche and China. “I suggested – Ceriscioli highlighted – to set up in our region a real training centre for Chinese doctors and health managers and extend it, when possible, to other middle Italian regions, such as Umbria or Tuscany. The proposal has been accepted: starting in the next months, Director Zhang will come to the Marche to subscribe an action plan and to visit our excellence centres, our health system and to aquire direct knowledges on the sector’s organisational model, a model which he appreciated strongly”. President Cariscioli attended also a meeting with some of the most important Chinese tour operators, very active on the Italian market. Region Marche and Commerce Chamber presented the regional tourist offer, placing a particular focus on the “tourist product” capable of big success in the Chinese market: shopping, villages and villages’ life-style, arts tours and musical culture. (red)
