Objectives and Vision

The platform has been established, by agreement between Confapi Venezia and TTIC - Tianjin Technology Innovation Center, in November 2020, to foster the economic cooperation between the Venice (Italy) and Tianjin (People Republic of China), with the aim to help Small and Medium-sized Enterprises in accessing concrete mutual collaboration opportunities, keeping in account innovation and business effectiveness as main drivers and assets, as well as to support investors in landing to China and to Italy.

Cooperation between China and the Italian SMEs, in the industries of Capital Goods and Technologies, requires a win-win approach based on:

• access to the Chinese market
• joint business development between Italian and Chinese partners
• process and product innovation that lead to improvement of Value Added of products and services
• mutual understanding and protection in long term partnerships between Italian and Chinese Partners
• Third-party financial leverage

 

 

Founding Partners

Confapi Venezia
Confapi Venezia (formerly Apindustria Venezia) is the Trade Association of Industrial Small and Medium Enterprises of Venice, member of CONFAPI, the National Confederation of Industrial Small and Medium Enterprises.
In Italy, CONFAPI represents 83,000 enterprises, with more than 800,000 workers, applying CONFAPI’s NLC - National Labour Contracts.
In Veneto Region, which capital is Venice, more than 6000 Enterprises apply the CONFAPI’s NLC, with around 87,200 workers.
Confapi Venezia ha been founded in the year 2000 and its main purpose is representing the entrepreneurs towards local-level Workers’ Unions and Local Governments for Labour related negotiations, as well as all the topic related to the compliance with Confapi’s National Labour Contracts.
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Tianjin Technology Innovation Center
TTIC – Tianjin Technology and Innovation Center is a public welfare second class Public Institution at the Deputy Bureau level of the Tianjin Municipality, under the leadership of CPC Tianjin Municipal Committee and Tianjin Municipal Science and Technology Bureau.
Main functions of TTIC include:
1. Undertake the transformation and transfer work of scientific and technological achievements in the city, the region and at home and abroad;
2. Carry out the development, cooperation, introduction, integration and regional collaborative innovation of international and domestic innovation resources;
3. Carry out the construction, operation and management of business incubation carriers such as Technology business incubators;
4. Carry out the city's science and technology finance work, and to manage Tianjin's science and technology risk investment funds;
5. Carry out the development of science and technology innovation service mode, and provide relevant services to all kinds of innovative enterprises and scientific and technological talents at home and abroad.
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Strategic Partners

China Italy Chamber of Commerce
The China-Italy Chamber of Commerce (CICC) is the only business organisation recognised by both the Italian Government (Ministry of Economic Development, MiSE) and People’s Republic of China (Ministry of Civil Affairs, MoCA) that aims to boost the internationalisation of Italian business and to promote the “Made in Italy” in the PRC.
Established in 1991, CICC has now offices in Beijing, Chongqing, Guangzhou, Shanghai and Suzhou.
The CICC Members (almost 400 in 2019) represent the Italian business community such as public-invested and multinational corporations, small and medium-sized enterprises (both manufacturing and commercial), service companies etc.
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Supporters and Sponsors