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Aug
2019
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Ctrip and Sicily boost tourism co-operation with strategic partnership

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Left-right: Bo Sun (Ctrip CMO), Michele Geraci (Undersecretary MISE), Gaetano Armao (Vice-President Region of Sicily), Lucia di Fatta (Regional Department of Economy)

6th August, PALERMO, ITALY – Ctrip, the largest online travel agency in Asia today announced a strategic partnership with Sicily that promises to bring a bigger share of the world’s largest outbound tourism market to the Mediterranean island.

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19
Jul
2019
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Let us look at China’s Hangzhou: digital and smart

Have you heard of the Chinese phrase “above there is Heaven, below there are Suzhou and Hangzhou”? It is to describe the breathtaking beauty of the two nearby cities nestled in East China.

One of the most iconic cities in China, Hangzhou is not only rich in history and nature but also very young and digital-minded. It hosts a flock of Chinese homegrown tech giants such Alibaba and its financial spin-off Ant Financial, Hikvision, Dahua Technology, as well as numerous multinationals’ Chinese branches or innovation centres, such as Nokia’s AI 5G Lab, set up in Hangzhou in cooperation with China Mobile to shape future 5G and cloud products.

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11
Jul
2019
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Online Pharmacy and telemedicine new giants in China

Online Pharmacy and telemedicine new giants in China

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By Federico Giorgetti

The huge population of emerging countries and its pharmaceutical retail market generates huge return opportunities and new business models. Official data showed that in 2017 total pharmaceutical stores hit more than 453,000, in which some 229,000 belong to 5409 chain companies, leaving behind a daunting logistic hurdle to source the drugs from the pharmaceutical manufacturers and delivering them to the patients.

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14
Jun
2019
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Street smarts

By Luigi Gambardella, president of ChinaEU

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An aerial view of Shenzhen. [Photo/VCG] Source: China Daily

Shenzhen can be test bed for the most advanced smart city applications

Cities host about half of the global population and the proportion is growing, with China’s urbanization fueling the phenomenon. By 2050, seven out of every ten people will live in a city. If we want to avoid congestion and a decreasing quality of life, traditional bureaucratic management of ever more densely populated cities, we need to look to a wide range of smart technologies that can help city administrators.

The smart solutions offered are diverse. But their adoption is still at an early stage, making it very difficult for city councils to commit substantial investments to what are untested solutions.

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15
Apr
2019
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ChinaWatch: Bridge to the future

By Luigi Gambardella

Chinese President Xi Jinping has wrapped up his trip to Europe, in which he paid state visits to Italy, Monaco and France and met with EU leaders. Media headlines have focused on the Italian part of the visit and in particular the memorandum of understanding between China and Italy to officially support the Belt and Road Initiative. Most of the media coverage, unfortunately, failed to highlight the great significance of Xi’s visit to Italy: It comes 10 years after the last state visit by a Chinese president and was the first overseas destination for Xi this year.

The visit, which came soon after China’s largest political event of the year, the annual two sessions, was not born out of coincidence. Such visits take months to plan, thus Xi’s trip was both significant and rich in symbolism.

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15
Apr
2019
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China Daily/ChinaWatch: Just a minute, 5G is so passé

By Luigi Gambardella

Never too early for China and Europe to cooperate on tapping the potential of 6G technology

(SONG CHEN / CHINA DAILY)

In Chinese philosophy, the virtue of long-term thinking is essential to strategists. We are expecting pre-commercialization of 5G this year, and while it still needs plenty of time for a mature commercialized 5G network to be established, we should look even further ahead to 6G: actually, it may be the right time for Europe and China to start planning their cooperation on the next milestone in the decade to come.

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