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
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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Guo Weimin (left), vice-minister of the State Council Information Office, Huang Kunming (center), then executive vice-minister of the CPC Central Committee's Publicity Department, 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 by Ren Qi/China Daily] |
