Media's role in strengthening China-Russia ties
Editor's Note:
Chinese President Xi Jinping and his Russian counterpart Vladimir Putin announced 2016-2017 as China-Russia Media Exchange Year on May 8, 2015.
Media from both countries carried out exchanges and cooperation in various fields, pushing forward the cultural cooperation between both nations to a higher level. Besides media exchanges, the two nations also cooperate on education, tourism and sports to strengthen people-to-people friendship.
As Chinese Premier Li Keqiang and visiting Russian Prime Minister Dmitry Medvedev wrapped up the China-Russia Media Exchange Year, let's take a look at the highlights of the results of the exchange.
1. Forums
Media's role in strengthening China-Russia ties China-Russia New Media Forum
Sept. 25, 2017
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China Daily's Editor-in-Chief Zhou Shuchun speaks at the opening ceremony of the second China-Russia New Media Forum in Russia's southern city of Rostov-on-Don, on September 25, 2017. [Photo/China Daily] |
Two hundred businessmen, experts and scholars from China and Russia participated in the second China-Russia New Media Forum. They discussed such topics as the role of the internet in the modern world, the influence of high technology on media, media education, youth entrepreneurship and innovation.
Third China-Russia Media Forum
July 4, 2017
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Huang Kunming (C), executive deputy head of the CPC Central Committee's Publicity Department, Guo Weimin (L), vice minister of the State Council Information Office (SCIO), and Alexei Gromov, first deputy chief of staff of the Russian Presidential Executive Office, attend the Third China-Russia Media Forum in Moscow, July 4, 2017. [Photo/China Daily] |
More than 120 representatives of 75 media agencies from China and Russia participated in the Third China-Russia Media Forum and discussed new trends in media development and future cooperation.
China-Russia Internet Media Forum
Oct. 28-29, 2016
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Representatives share their viewpoints at the China-Russia Internet Media Forum in Guangzhou, Guangdong province, Oct. 29, 2016. [Photo/China Daily] |
The China-Russia Internet Media Forum brought together more than 150 media representatives, entrepreneurs and researchers from China and Russia, to discuss development and cooperation, innovation and breakthrough opportunities, and challenges faced by online media companies in the two countries.
Second China-Russia Media Forum
March 25, 2016
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Liu Qibao (C), head of the Publicity Department of the Communist Party of China Central Committee, and Sergei Ivanov, Russia's Presidential Administration chief (2nd L), attend the second China-Russia media forum in Beijing, March 25, 2016. [Photo/Xinhua] |
Representatives from China and Russia discussed media's role in promoting the integration of China's Silk Road Economic Belt initiative with the Russia-led Eurasian Economic Union framework, and in boosting new-media exchange and cooperation between the two countries.