Chinese President Xi Jinping (L) meets with Italian Senate Speaker Maria Elisabetta Alberti Casellati in Rome, Italy, March 22, 2019. (Xinhua/Yao Dawei) ROME, March 22 -- Visiting Chinese President Xi Jinping met with Italian Senate Speaker Maria Elisabetta Alberti Casellati here Friday on expanding exchanges and cooperation between the two countries' legislative institutions.
Chinese President Xi Jinping (L, front) and his Italian counterpart Sergio Mattarella (R, front) hold talks in Rome, Italy, March 22, 2019. (Xinhua/Ju Peng) ROME, March 22 -- Chinese President Xi Jinping and his Italian counterpart, Sergio Mattarella, held talks here Friday, and agreed to jointly push for greater development of the China-Italy comprehensive strategic partnership in the new era.
A signed article by Chinese President Xi Jinping titled "East Meets West — A New Chapter of Sino-Italian Friendship" was published Wednesday on Italian newspaper Corriere della Sera ahead of his state visit to the European country. An English version of the full text of the article is as follows: East Meets West — A New Chapter of Sino-Italian Friendship Xi Jinping President of the People’s Republic of China It is a great pleasure for me to pay a state visit to the Italian Republic at the invitation of President Sergio Mattarella in this blossoming season of spring.
BEIJING, March 21 (Xinhua) -- Italy, Monaco and France are the three legs of Chinese President Xi Jinping's first overseas trip this year. Xi's state visits from March 21 to 26 are expected to boost the economic ties between China and the European countries.
