Guo Weimin calls for China-Africa media cooperation

Kevin Ritchie, regional executive editor of Independent Media, said the forum can offer an opportunity to forge bonds, learn from one another, discuss the shortcomings the media agencies might have and find solutions to problems that are common to both sides.

He said that the two sides should fulfill a most critical role in empowering the public by giving them the most complete information possible, which would allow them to look at the news clearly and objectively and form their own opinions.

Olanrewaju Timothy Kola, a journalist with the Sun Newspaper in Nigeria, said the Chinese media is more interested in telling the African story from the African perspective, rather than the hand-down script of the Western media which see nothing good about the continent except stories of wars, conflicts and crime.