"I wish Italy and China together will encourage cultural exchange projects in those intermediate countries, which are little known today, and yet have plenty of historic sites and monuments in need of investment," Bradanini said.
Chen recalled some 20,000 Chinese students have come to Italy, and over 5,500 Italian peers have studied in China, since after the Marco Polo Program was launched in 2005, and the Turandot Project for art education in 2009.
"In 2016 alone, more than 4,800 young Chinese came to Italy for studying," he pointed out.
Alessandra Lavagnino, professor of Chinese language and culture at the University in Milan and co-director of its Confucius Institute, praised the crucial value China gives to culture.
"I am admired by the great respect Chinese society pays to knowledge and study, which are meant not only as tools for improving individual conditions, but society as a whole," she said.
Cultural exchanges were by no means secondary elements in the perspective of the Belt and Road Initiative, the scholar underlined.
"Culture is what gives us the wider scope of a common project, and allow us to find common strategies in which our own (respective) peoples could do their best," she told Xinhua on the sidelines of the conference.
"I think for example to a strengthened Sino-Italian cooperation in the visual arts, and in literature and poetry..." Lavagnino said. "All of the big issues related to the human being in our contemporary society need to be addressed, and our views exchanged, and I do believe Chinese and Italians still have a lot to say to each other."
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