An online round table meeting titled Sino-Italian Urban Quality Platform was held on May 7 to work out measures to promote urban construction and improve urban life between the two countries and beyond and to discover ways to meet cities’ ever-changing demands for transformation.

The meeting was organized by Tsinghua University, Italy’s Turin Polytechnic University, the Turin Museum Foundation, Intesa Sanpaolo and TOChina Hub, an integrated knowledge group established to engage China as a field of research and a partner in the education of future generations of cosmopolitan citizens and competent professionals.

Tsinghua Vice-president Yang Bin said the meeting was held after achievements were made in long-term academic cooperation on architecture and planning between Tsinghua and Turin Polytechnic University, demonstrating both sides’ attention to urban development and the pursuit of high quality urban life.

Yang said the meeting not only offered a new perspective for people to look closely at and rethink urban life, but also launched a new dialogue between Chinese and Italian intellectuals.

The online round table meeting is part of the “China Goes Urban: The City to Come” exhibition and the last important official event before its closing.

The exhibition was planned by the two universities and Prospekt, a photo studio. It opened to the public in the MAO - Museum of Oriental Art in Turin on Oct 16, 2020.

Tsinghua is planning another exhibition titled “Dream Story · Urban modernity between Italy and China” with Turin Polytechnic University and Prospekt that will be a part of the 2022  China-Italy Year of Culture and Tourism and will be on tour in 2022 and 2023 across China.

Editor: Li Han