It is now China’s turn – Europe and China are engaged in an accelerated process of nearing one another. The aim of this seminar is to offer journalists a meeting place for these two different worlds. The interdependency category, from which the seminar’s works emerge, wishes to portrait in a particular way those aspects that favour the authentic meeting between peoples and cultures, overcoming disinformation, communication difficulties, trivial stereotypes and unjustified pre-comprehensions. The initiative is part of a framework: “Interdependence meetings – among persons, peoples, states for a more united world.” The 2006 edition of this meeting was dedicated to the rapport between the western and Islamic world.  There are many issues to debate on: development of legislative system, art and cultural traditions, religions, mass media, civil society, human rights, freedom of speech, ecological problem. In this meeting European scholars journalists connected in various ways to China and Chinese representatives, protagonists and witnesses of its millenary civilisation, come together to confront their views.  Among the questions to be dealt with – In which way does present-day China manage to keep together the multi-millenary tradition and the strong wind of change? Is there room for religions and spiritual life in a China that is passing from communism to liberalism? Are we acquainted with our Chinatown? Is there a successful integration experience in Italy? A growing civil society – “The signals originating from the Great Wall – as Michele Zanzucchi wrote in his recent reportage on Città Nuova (n.4/2007 issue) – are evident. Though at times contradictory, however, they are always stimulating. One thousand and three hundred million persons belonging to 55 different ethnic groups, united in one country since 221 BC, form a nation with an incredible economic and social power. In this very moment of maximum economic development, there is the growing internal demand for democracy and respect of human rights. This demand does not arise through politics but thanks to that civil society that grows impetuously. Maybe one would have to look into this world with greater attention in order to understand where China is leading to.”