On November 9 local time in Italy, the unveiling ceremony of the Tongji University Alumni Home in Italy was held at the Trendzone European Headquarters. Yang Jinlong, President of Tongji University and Academician of the Chinese Academy of Sciences; Zhu Bin, Board Member of Tongji University and Chairman of Trendzone Holdings; Daniele Rocchi, Vice Rector of Politecnico di Milano; and other guests attended the event and joined representatives of alumni in Italy in witnessing this important moment. The plaque presentation marks the formal integration of the university alumni network into Trendzone’s industrial platform, making the Trendzone European Headquarters a new anchor for Tongji’s overseas alumni network.

Located at Via Massimiano 2, Milan, the Trendzone European Headquarters is a composite landmark integrating regional operations management, original design and R&D, brand launch and exhibition, cross-border business matchmaking, and industry meetings and exchanges. Once established, the Tongji University Alumni Home in Italy will handle daily liaison and event organization for alumni in Italy and, leveraging Trendzone’s industrial resources in Europe, provide support and physical infrastructure for alumni entrepreneurship and professional practice, China-Italy industrial matchmaking, and young scholars and students studying or visiting.

At the Tongji University Italian Alumni Representative Roundtable, participants discussed topics including China-Europe cooperation, discipline alignment amid AI transformation, translation of China-Italy academic achievements, two-way talent mobility, and transnational industrial matchmaking, laying the content groundwork for the launch of the Alumni Home.

Zhu Bin, Chairman of Trendzone Holdings, said that Trendzone Holdings and Tongji University have deep industry-academia-research accumulated strengths in smart construction, green and low-carbon development, and other fields, and already have a cooperative foundation in jointly building an AI laboratory. By providing space and collaborative operation for the Tongji alumni association, the Trendzone European Headquarters is both a concrete action by the company to support the alumni cause of its alma mater through its industrial platform and a beneficial extension that gives back to China-Europe industry-academia-research matchmaking.

The Quanzhu European Headquarters is Trendzone’s core platform for deploying two-way China-Europe resources and opening up industrial channels. With the alumni association’s move-in, the Tongji alumni network and industrial scenarios will support each other, endowing this physical space with new service potential. The academic resources and industrial innovation network linked by the Alumni Home are expected to further open a conversion channel between university research outcomes and European market application scenarios, provide localized talent matchmaking and think-tank support for go-global enterprises, and fill the scarce capability gap in Chinese enterprises’ transition from “manufacturing going global” to “brand going global.”

Under the “Two Domains, Two Lines, One Technology Chain” strategy, Trendzone Holdings continues to advance the building of “dual Asia-Europe anchors” for its global expansion. As China-Europe economic and trade cooperation enters a window period of green transition and deepening industrial synergy, Trendzone Holdings is also exploring a go-global service pathway in which market-based entities carry public service functions. As a physical anchor in the company’s global layout, the Trendzone European Headquarters will build on its existing industrial capabilities by adding the industry-academia-research collaboration capabilities of the university alumni system, continue to enrich the public functions of industrial chain going global, and build a cross-regional service corridor with physical platforms as the skeleton and enterprise whole-life-cycle needs as the driver.