The idea of the Salotto Italia–Cina was born in Milan on 9 May 2024, during the conference at the Hotel Gallia with Bateer, Vice Governor of Hainan Province. The insight was to give relations between Italy and Hainan a stable place, a platform that does not end with a single event. Presented to the Mayor of Sanya, the project was approved.
A year later, on 9 May 2025, the idea becomes a formal commitment. In Sanya, during the Conference for the Promotion of Hainan–Italy Economic and Trade Cooperation, the Salotto Italia–Cina signs an agreement with the Municipality of Sanya, in the presence of the Deputy Mayor. Eugenio Lanzetta presents the project: an Italian platform on the island that brings together culture, business and institutions, based in the same building that will house the Leonardo da Vinci Museum Sanya. The day ends with an institutional dinner.
The signing marks the birth of the Salotto as a counterpart recognised by the island's institutions and opens a relationship that has been renewed ever since: Hainan's institutional mission to Italy in autumn 2025, the opening of the premises in December, the presence at CICPE, the agreement between Liguria and Hainan. In the same days a group of Italian entrepreneurs is in Sanya to get to know the island's opportunities at first hand.
In the same days: Italian companies in Sanya →
Where the idea was born: the conference at the Hotel Gallia, May 2024 →
July 2024: the first business plan presented to the Mayor of Sanya →
Next, in Sanya, December 2025: Opening of the Salotto Italia–Cina Premises →
