Meloni's five-day visit comes several months after Italy dropped out of China's Belt and Road Initiative.
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00:00China and Italy have signed a three-year plan aiming to bolster industrial collaboration
00:06while repairing strained relations.
00:09Italian Prime Minister Giorgio Maloney's official Beijing visit comes a year after Italy dropped
00:15out of Chinese leader Xi Jinping's Belt and Road Initiative.
00:19The old relations between Italy and China are characterized by a very significant economic
00:25and commercial dimension, a strategic dimension that we must continue to cultivate, especially
00:33in the face of the complex international situation in which we find ourselves.
00:39As part of the plan, the two countries will participate in supercharged trade, spanning
00:44electric vehicles to renewable energy, according to Maloney.
00:48It comes as EVs symbolize growing trade tensions between China and the EU.
00:53Brussels recently slapped tariffs of up to 37 percent on China-made EVs.