Italian Gran Gala in Shanghai Panda d’Oro Award – 2014 Edition

Italian Gran Gala in Shanghai
Panda d’Oro Award – 2014 Edition

Jing An Shangri-La
Saturday, June 14th 2014

The Italian Gran Gala, organized by China-Italy Chamber of Commerce (CICC), was held on June 14th 2014 at Shangri-La Hotel. Winners of the Panda d’Oro Award were awarded throughout the dinner.

The Panda d’Oro Award 5th edition is supported by the Italian Embassy in China, the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, the Ministry of Economic Development, in association with Italy-China Foundation.

The Award recognizes the outstanding performance of companies and entrepreneurs, which have contributed the most to developing and strengthening bilateral economic relations between China and Italy.

During the Gala ten awards, from 6 different categories, were assigned:

1．“Panda d’Oro-Cina” Award
Co-winners were Ferrero China e GAC FIAT Automobiles Co.

2． “The Best Project Panda” Award
Co-winners were 100ITA by West East Corporation Ltd. and Italian Aerospace Network.

3. “The Time-honoured Panda” Award

Co-winners were Intesa San Paolo S.p.A e Testoni.

4. “The Sustainable Panda” Award
Co-winners were CNH and Magneti Marelli.

5. “The Best Italian SME” in China Panda Award
The winner was Toscotec Paper Machine (Shanghai).

6. “The Innovative Italian SME” in China Panda Award
The winner was AZ Investment Management (Azimut Group).

Mr. Franco Cutrupia welcome speech opened the event, followed by His Excellence, Mr. Alberto Bradanini, Ambassador of the Italian Embassy in China.

The event reached the record of over 450 guests, who represents sino-italian business community, and Italian and Chinese institutions.

Among the Chinese guests: Mr. She Chuming, Deputy Mayor of Jining, industrial city in Shangdong Province; Mr. Pan Yue, Director of the Suzhou Foreign Affairs Institute; Mr. Li Wen Hui, Vice director of the international affair office of the Suzhou municipality and Mr. Bian Fang, Division Chief of the Foreign Affairs office of Suzhou Municipal Government.

This edition was presented by Connie Chen and Max Pisu, a well-known Italian actor and comedian from the successful TV program ZELIG, for the first time in Shanghai.

The event offered a dressy dinner menu, a selection of images representing Italian landscape realized by Technomovie, acrobatic shows, Alessia Raisi performance, and a lucky draw with gifts provided by Italian Sponsors & Partners.

During the Gran Gala Supporting Sponsors Intesa Sanpaolo and GAC Fiat gave their welcome speeches.

At the conclusion of the Italian Gran Gala, Mr. Cutrupia commented the event: “As President of the Chamber and entrepreneur, I was glad to see so many guests and companies are competing for the Panda Award 5th edition. The presence of distinguished guests displays the successful cooperation among the organizers and the high value of the Award.
As the Prime Minister said during his visit in Shanghai: “The outsourcing has been seen as with a negative attitude”, but actually companies’ internationalization represents an essential strategy for facing the challenges of globalization.
Italian companies, that are willing to invest abroad, strengthen the presence of our country in the world, actively contributing to boost employment in our country. This Award helps companies to tell their stories, which represent the Italian dynamic attitude towards China!”

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