Hangzhou. A meeting with a delegation from Tongde Hospital in the Zhejiang Province, one of the most well-equipped public hospitals in China, located in Hangzhou City, was held at the University of Siena. Rector Francesco Frati, the delegate for international relations, Luca Verzichelli and other Professors in medical, biomedical, and life sciences attended the gathering on behalf of the University of Siena. The visit was organised in the framework of a structured programme between academic and health-care institutions of Hangzhou, the University of Siena and the University of Siena Hospital with the aim of activating future collaborations primarily for the mobility of students and researchers. “Hangzhou has already developed an intensive programme of relations with centres of excellence in Korea and various Western countries, and Siena is one of the candidates for activating an exchange in Europe” according to Verzichelli. (9Colonne)