The mayor Federico Basiletogether with the councilors for tourism and cultural policies Enzo Caruso and production activities and shows Massimo Finocchiaro, and the president of the “Arcangelo Corelli” state conservatory of Messina, Egidio Bernava, together with prof. Lorenzo Parents, Erasmus director and internationalization of Corelli, EA Massimo Bongiovanni, Logistic and organizational manager, the final balance and future perspectives of the recent participation of the Messina delegation in the 21st edition of the China International Cultural Industries Fair (ICIF) illustrated today at Palazzo Zanca. At the press conference he took part, in connection from China, Wang Tianqi, Honorary President and founder of the Vinci Culture Association.
The mayor Basile explained that “the Chinese one is a market to which we look with great interest and for our city represents an opportunity for an exponential growth of the market. It was a fruitful and interesting journey, during which we have made contacts and established relations with local entrepreneurial realities in the technological field, but not only. The Corelli Conservatory has a dialogue with China already started for a few years, while the Municipality of Messina is ready to host a delegation to make a delegation to make a delegation to make a delegation to make a delegation to make Get to know Messina, its enormous potential with possible investments in our area. At the end of June, in fact, Wang Tianqi, together with a delegation of entrepreneurs, teachers and institutional figures, after Florence and Milan, will visit our city for a constructive confrontation and on solid bases “.
Councilor Finocchiaro showed that: “The city of Shenzhen, with 13 million inhabitants, is the third economy of China and the largest metropolitan area, divided into nine districts, where each district creates a GDP for the economy that amounts to one billion and one hundred million a year. Among other things, she is growing rapidly growing with a vast area in the process of further development. Reception and the great opening towards our delegation to demonstrate that China’s closure in the western world is only a memory and the times have changed considerably “.
Councilor Caruso added that: “During the mission the term ‘culture’ was the Liet Movie through which It is possible to imagine a path of cultural, tourist and entrepreneurial exchanges. The Italian-Chinese association “Vinci Cultura”, based in Italy and Shenzen, who made the journey possible, refers precisely to Leonardo da Vinci, a scientist synthesis of culture, science and art. During the meetings we highlighted the themes that can bind us to China, with particular reference to the Messina Pietro Rombulo area, which visited it in 1444 and the ‘Silk streets’, for whose production Messina was in the center of the Mediterranean “.
President Bernava said that: “The Corelli Conservatory has long started this collaboration that leads to continuous exchanges in the field of music, art and instrumentation, generating an economic induced and a constant confrontation, through the signature of protocols”. The collaboration between China and Corelli will allow, as explained by prof. Parents, to a large representation of students to study and take exams in our Conservatory, which will thus implement its already remarkable activity, also allowing a cultural and tourist development.
Wang Tianqi, in remote connection, in addressing a greeting to the Messina delegation present at the press conference, thanked her for the invitation of the end of June, “confirming the will for a wide collaboration with the Municipality of Messina with the aim of making the city of Messina know more and more known and the next participation in a music festival”.