On February 14th the first country presentation of Mongolia in Italy had been held in Milan. The event was organized by Associm in collaboration with Fifta (Foreign Investment and Foreign Trade Agency of Mongolia) and Ice (Italian institute for foreign trade).

The Italian-Mongolian Chamber of commerce presented the Mongol version of Associm website and the next activity on the calendar: the Italian entrepreneurial mission in Mongolia scheduled for the next spring.

Both these initiatives were illustrated by Michele De Gasperis, president of Associm, during the interview on “TG1 Economia”, the national news broadcast, aired on February 16th.

Five times bigger than Italy, positioned between Russian and China and dominated by a wild nature: Mongolia is one of the fewest place in earth that still remains uncontaminated.

Mongolia is a country where tradition and modernity are constantly overlapping, and where Gengis Khan’s tradition is mixed with soviet architecture, and Buddhist temples stand side by side with nomad shepherd tents.

However, Mongolia is above all a country to be discovered, made by endless horizons dominated by lakes, by the wild expanses of Gobi desert or by the snow-covered peaks of Altai Nuur mountain.

Growth rate, which between 2004 and 2008 has reached an average 9%, is most of all the indicator that describes the extraordinary performance of Mongolian economy in the last years.

In 2007 GDP increased by 10%. Some commercial sectors have had a considerable increase, such as manufacturing (+32,3% in 2007), construction (+22,4%), compartment of the transport, logistics and communications (+18.6%) or agriculture (+15.8%).