Media co-op vital for Belt and Road initiative
- By Zhang Lulu
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Presidents and chief editors from more than 20 media outlets and 13 countries along the Belt and Road said on Monday that media cooperation is vital for building the massive initiative and pledged to continue working on facilitating it.
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Zhou Mingwei, president of the China International Publishing Group, addresses the forum. [Photo provided by China Pictorial] |
Zhou Mingwei, president of the China International Publishing Group (CIPG), took CIPG, one of China’s international communication agencies, as an example of media cooperation between China and other countries along the Silk Road. Such cooperation includes several magazines and photo albums that have been launched to help people better learn about the initiative.
“Media not only conveys and disseminates information, but also helps cement bonds between different groups of people. How to promote information and people-to-people exchange among countries along the Belt and Road is worth the effort of and serious thinking of the concerned media outlets,” he said.
Zhou made the remarks at the First Silk Road Media Cooperation Forum held in the Chinese city of Nanjing, which was a crucial juncture on the ancient Silk Road.
Yang Xiuping, secretary-general of China-ASEAN Center, said that media cooperation is an integral part of the Belt and Road initiative.
ASEAN countries are major stakeholders in the 21st Century Maritime Silk Road. According to Yang, China has been ASEAN’s largest trading partner for seven straight years and ASEAN has been China’s third largest trading partner for five years in a row, laying a solid foundation for more in-depth cooperation between the two sides.
Media outlets in China and the ASEAN have carried out cooperation in interviews, people-to-people exchanges, training programs, seminars and so on, Yang said.
Marat Abulkhatin, the first deputy editor of Russian national news agency TASS, acknowledged that many ordinary citizens in Russia still have a vague idea of the Belt and Road initiative, but they have had a better understanding since Chinese President Xi Jinping and Russian President Vladimir Putin pledged to dovetail China’s Belt and Road initiative and Russia’s Eurasian Economic Union when they met in Russia in 2015.
He said his news agency is informing Russian citizens about the initiative, adding that one of the main tasks of TASS’s Beijing office was to learn about and interpret the initiative.
The forum on Monday also saw the releasing of the Belt and Road-related Nanjing Consensus and the establishment of the Silk Road Media Cooperation Alliance.
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