"La Citta' Come Sito Della Globalizzazione" Published in Chinese

As one of the results of the 10-year cooperation program between the Institute of European Studies (IES) of CASS and the Journal Review of Economic Conditions in Italy of the Italian UniCredit Group, the Chinese edition of Cities: the Sites of Globalized Network (La Citta’ Come Sito Della Globalizzazione), edited by Prof. Luo Hongbo, was published in October 2010 by the Social Sciences Academic Press (China).

The subjects discussed in this book are not only of common interest to both the IES and to the Journal but of great significance to both China and Italy. Urbanization and construction of globalized cities bear enormous strategic significance to the comprehensively harmonious development and the enhancement of international status and influences of any one state. This book consists of 7 chapters, analyzing respectively the situations of China and Italy from the perspectives of the theories, strategies and policies of city development, and urban agglomeration.

The inauguration ceremony of the book and an academic conference on La Citta’ Come Sito Della Globalizzazione was held in Shanghai on October 26 2010, jointly hosted by IES of CASS, Shanghai Academy of Social Sciences and the UniCredit Group of Italy, with more than 80 scholars and experts present.

Cooperation between the two parties started in 1999, and 5 monographs have been jointly produced in Chinese, Italian and English in China and Italy respectively:

The Small and Medium-Sized Enterprises in the Face of Economic Globalization (2004),

Migrants and Globalization (2006),

The Industrial Districts Confronting Globalization: a Comparison between China and Italy (2008),

Roles of the Central and Local Governments in Economic Development: a Comparison between China and Italy (2009)

Cities: the Sites of Globalized Network (2010)