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16:40, 14-May-2017
Italian PM Gentiloni arrives in Beijing for Belt and Road Forum
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Italian Prime Minister Paolo Gentiloni arrived in Beijing on Sunday for the Belt and Road Forum for International Cooperation, held in the Chinese capital on May 14 and 15.
A total of 29 heads of state and government are due to attend the Forum, the highest-profile international meeting on the Belt and Road Initiative since Chinese President Xi Jinping proposed the idea in 2013.
In an interview earlier this week, Gentiloni called the Belt and Road Initiative "perhaps the most important infrastructure modernization project underway in the world today."
"Bringing the Chinese economy closer through this gigantic infrastructural operation is enormously interesting to Italy, not only for our government but also for our universities and public and private businesses," Gentiloni said.
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