Plans for a Chinese cultural centre at the entrance to Via Sarpi are dividing Milan: for many residents, it risks marking a symbolic boundary in a neighbourhood born of integration. Against this backdrop, Chinatown is becoming increasingly gastronomic and less cultural

 Xi Jinping’s country has a colossal surplus of production capacity, the result of subsidised investment aimed at boosting the annual GDP growth figure, but demand is insufficient and the domestic market is contracting 

The plan for 1,700 redundancies is being replaced by voluntary redundancy schemes, whilst the Cerreto plant gains time for reindustrialisation. The government has secured a reprieve, but the group’s future is overshadowed by the gap with Asian industry and the possible sale to Midea 

The car market is growing and five Stellantis models feature in the top ten best-sellers. However, only the Pandina is manufactured in Italy: the Avenger, 3008, Grande Panda and C3 are sourced from Poland, France, Serbia and Slovakia. The trade unions are calling for additional production. More will be known on 20 October.

From the new draft issued by the Ministry of Economic Development, it would appear that the government wishes to give craft businesses the opportunity to expand. However, according to Confindustria, this creates a ‘grey area’ enshrined in law, whereby a business is classified as industrial when it competes in the market and as a craft business when it has to bear certain costs and obligations