ROME
\nItalian Foreign Minister Antonio Tajani was headed Thursday to China, seeking to boost economic ties while also calling on Beijing to help efforts toward peace in Iran and Ukraine.
\nTajani, a senior member of Italian Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni\u2019s hard-right government, was due to meet with China\u2019s commerce minister Wang Wentao and foreign minister Wang Yi later Thursday in Beijing, his office said.
\n\u201cWe\u2019re working to support our companies so they can operate more and more in such an interesting market as the Chinese one,\u201d Tajani said in a video posted online as he departed.
\n\u201cAnd of course I will ask China and the Chinese government to lend a hand in building peace in the Middle East and also in Ukraine.\u201d
\nChina is a key market for Italian exports \u2014 its second largest outside the European Union, after the United States.
\nBilateral trade was worth nearly 75 billion euros in 2025, up 11.2 percent compared to 2024, it said.
\nTajani will seek to remove barriers for businesses, as well as rebalancing trade and investment flows, according to his ministry.
\nHis April 16-18 trip also has a cultural component. He will inaugurate a new exhibition in Beijing on Italian Renaissance masters, curated by the famed Uffizi Galleries in Florence.
\nOn Friday he will head to Shanghai and meet representatives of the Italian business community.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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