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Interview: Visit of China pavilion offers "joyful experience": Expo Milano official

Xinhua, May 2, 2015 Adjust font size:

The visit of China pavilion offers a "fascinating, interactive, recreational and joyful experience," Piero Galli, Expo Milano 2015 Event and Entertainment General Director, said in an interview with Xinhua.

According to Galli, China has given an outstanding interpretation of sustainable nutrition, the leading theme of the Italian world exposition that opened in Milan on Friday.

"Today it is the day that the world exposition baton has been really passed from Shanghai to Milan," Galli said.

"Since the beginning, China has wanted to have a strong presence at Expo Milano 2015, not only through the China national pavilion - the second largest foreign self-built pavilion after the German one - but also with two corporate pavilions and many initiatives," he underlined.

The China pavilion, Galli went on saying, is full of important elements that mirror the leading theme of the Italian exposition "Feeding the Planet, Energy for Life" dedicated to the vital need of mankind to ensure enough healthy food for all while respecting nature.

Themed "Land of Hope, Food for Life," the China pavilion exhibits the Asian country's agricultural history, food culture and future expectation to the world.

In fact, Galli noted, China is the foreign country that has invested the most in the participation in Expo Milano 2015.

"This enthusiastic participation fills us with joy because China presses ahead on the issues that we have put at the center of our world exposition and makes it by combining debate with entertainment," he pointed out.

"The Expo Milano 2015 has made a big effort to spread the principles of sustainable nutrition not as much by explaining them to the countries that we wanted to attract but by showing concrete examples of sustainability here," Galli told Xinhua.

Good practices are at the core of the totally-pedestrian site, whose construction, energy and water use as well as garbage management criteria must respect very strict rules that have been imposed to all participants as an essential condition for their presence, Galli stressed.

In the framework of global collaboration for a better world, China has realized the importance of world expositions as a platform to generate ideas and influence policies, he said.

The Expo Milano 2015 has promoted a Milan Charter of commitment to involving countries in pursuing the universal right to food, which is considered to be the Italian exposition's legacy to contribute to the United Nations (UN) Millennium Developments Goals.

"China is one of the largest producers and consumers of food in the world thus its voice is important in the definition of global policies. If China does well on this respect, it will also benefit all other countries," Galli stressed. Endit