June 24^th to 25^th, 2014, The Sino - Italy environmental protection technology seminar and the first Sino- Italy Experts Committee Conference was held in Changsha.  Government officials,experts and leading business executives from Hunan Province and Marche region in the field of environmental protectionconducted face to face discussions and exchanges. Both sides were actively seeking opportunities for cooperation in environmental protection fields.

“The eighteenth Congress” proposed to promote the construction of ecological civilization and Changsha-Zhuzhou-Xiangtan“two-oriented society" pilot area. In this background, our province is taking effort to strengthening overall governance of the atmosphere, water and soil pollution, increasing ecological protection, promoting environmental protection industry development and technological progress, in order to further improve environmental quality, and to ensure the environmentsafety. In this arduous and complex process, our province is learning from the experience of developed Countries, and constantly improves the level of the province's environmental management,environmental standards and environmental technology.

The Marche region is located in the middle east of Italy. It is one of the most developed European handicraft industry area and industrial productivity concentrated area. It has machinery manufacturing, shipbuilding, papermaking, chemical, clothing, leather processing, wine and otheradvanced industry, and it is well known in Italy especially in the leather and garment processing, and has good cooperation with our province in many fields including environmental protection. Last October, Mr. Du JiaHao, the governor of Hunan province and Ms. Maura Malaspina, the Chairman of the committee of Marche region were witnessed the EPB of both sides to sign the "cooperation agreement" to strengthen environmental protection. In April of this year, the both sides founded the "Hunan – Italyenvironmental protection regional cooperationexperts committee" to promote cooperation.

The Sino - Italy environmental protection technology seminar and the first Sino- Italy Experts Committee Conference of this year is in order to improve the province environmental policies and regulations, environmental monitoring systems and pollution control systems, to promote communication and cooperation between enterprises of both sides. In this topic, 17 experts was giving speech in related fields on environmental management and technology innovation, which was covering the field of environmental management, water pollution control, heavy metal pollution and soil remediation, air pollution control, technology transfer, etc. it is targeting to solve environmental problems in our province.

During the meeting, the environmental protection departments from both sides signed the "Hunan Province Environmental Protection Department and Environment and Agriculture Department of Marche RegionWorking Agreement for the year 2014 and Summary of Sino-Italy Experts Committee Conference". This agreement is aim to promote technology exchange, training, communication and cooperation in areas of specific fields between enterprises.The environmental protection enterprises from both sides also signed number of cooperation agreements.