“Tradition” meets the future. This is one of the leitmotifs with which Messina will present itself to China, or rather, it will present what will be the city’s new seafront view through the “Integrated Project for the Renovation and Urban Redevelopment of the Santa Cecilia Maritime Station”.
In the promotional video the aim is to enhance the strategic position of the city with respect to the Mediterranean, and the opportunities in terms of new infrastructure, development and economy. This is an area of approximately 4 km facing the sea which will be redeveloped with a service centre, sea park, business area, sports, equipped beach, school cluster, squares, parks, swimming pools and a business centre.
In fact, as part of the seventh edition of the China International Import Expo, scheduled in Shanghai from 5 to 10 November, the city of Messina will be present through the screening of the video.
The mayor announced this today at Palazzo Zanca during a press conference Federico Basiletogether with the councillor Massimo Finocchiaro and to the general director of the institution Except Puccio. The meeting with journalists was attended by Guido D’Amico, president of Confimprese Italia. Mayor Basile, at the opening of the meeting with journalists, in thanking President D’Amico for the opportunity offered and for his two-day stay in Messina, explained that: “The objective of the municipal administration is to give visibility for our city, attract investors and bring foreign entrepreneurs closer. We look at the promotion of a Messina of the future in the context of global commercial exchange, with the aim of outlining analyzes and strategies to promote social and economic development of the urban territory and the province. China is a country that looks a lot to the Mediterranean and it is our intention to arouse their curiosity for possible future investments.”
Councilor Finocchiaro added that: “This is an ambitious project for an ambitious municipal administration. We must free Messina from its provincialism and look beyond our bordersaware that in recent years our city has proven to be welcoming, safe and capable of managing continuous tourist flows. We must export it, make it known to the whole world and promote contacts and relationships with potential investors”https://messina.gazzettadelsud.it/articoli/cronaca/2024/10/28/ecco-come-sara-nuovo-waterfront-di-messina -the-suggestive-images-of-the-project-that-will-be-presented-in-china-video-66c8e976-b7f8-4d01-b993-f2f669a54a6a/.”Messina is going through a phase of development and relaunch – continued the general director Puccio – and enjoys extraordinary natural and artistic beauties. This is a great opportunity to make it known to the world, expanding the boundaries of our territory, to attract new opportunities in the context of an ambitious project”. President D’Amico underlined that: “In Shanghai, in our Confimprese Italia stand, we will host Messina with great pleasure, which among other things is my city of origin, to give it the role it deserves with a stupendous panorama. The project was deemed interesting by the Chinese Chamber of Commerce; on 7 or 8 November we will have a one-hour slot in the Bank of China stand and we will talk to investors about two projects: one of the two concerns Messina and its waterfront” https://messina.gazzettadelsud.it/articoli/ news/2024/10/28/this-is-how-the-new-waterfront-of-messina-will-be-the-suggestive-images-of-the-project-that-will-be-presented-in-china-video-66c8e976-b7f8-4d01- b993-f2f669a54a6a/.”Messina…fly to China”, was born, therefore, from the visibility opportunity that Confimprese Italia will give to the city. The CIIE is the most important fair dedicated to imports in China, as well as an ideal platform for interested companies to develop and strengthen its presence in the market. Every year, the event includes thousands of exhibitors from over 150 countries who choose it to introduce new products, technologies and services to China.