GUANGZHOU, Dec. 2 (Xinhua) — Fu Hua, government chairman of the World Media Summit (WMS) and president of Xinhua News Agency, held conferences with heads of a number of worldwide media shops on Saturday in Guangzhou, south China’s Guangdong Province.
The media leaders — Ahmed bin Saeed Al Rumaihi, director normal of Qatar News Agency (QNA); Sakai Katsuhiko, president and CEO of Japan’s Jiji Press; Fahd bin Hassan Al Aqran, president of Saudi Press Agency; Vugar Aliyev, chairman of the board of Azerbaijan State News Agency (AZERTAC); Koh Hyun Kohn, president and government editor of the Joongang Ilbo of the Republic of Korea — are in China to attend the fifth WMS.
Extending a welcome to the media leaders, Fu said that the summit is the biggest offline media discussion board convened in China post-pandemic, in addition to a grand occasion for international media.
Fu said Xinhua’s readiness to concentrate on the summit theme of “Boosting Global Confidence, Promoting Media Development” with media company, and collectively talk about how the worldwide media trade can tackle international challenges and contribute to world peace, prosperity, and progress.
Ahmed bin Saeed Al Rumaihi stated that the QNA valued its pleasant cooperation with Xinhua and is prepared to broaden their collaboration to collectively embrace alternatives and deal with challenges, thus selling the friendship between the peoples of Qatar and China.
Lauding the long-term and productive collaboration between Jiji Press and Xinhua, Sakai Katsuhiko stated that Jiji Press is prepared to make further efforts to boost mutual understanding between the peoples of China and Japan and contribute to safeguarding peace in Asia.
Fahd bin Hassan Al Aqran famous China’s essential function in worldwide affairs and expressed the willingness of the Saudi Press Agency to strengthen exchanges with Xinhua, enhancing sensible cooperation in varied fields to higher serve the event of relations between the 2 international locations.
Vugar Aliyev famous that fruitful outcomes have been yielded for the reason that institution of cooperation between AZERTAC and Xinhua 20 years in the past, and AZERTAC will proceed to play an energetic half beneath the WMS mechanism.
Koh Hyun Kohn, on behalf of the Joongang Ilbo, expressed the hope to deepen bilateral and multilateral exchanges with Xinhua to advertise the friendship between the 2 international locations and the widespread growth of the area.
The fifth WMS, which runs from Dec. 2 to eight within the cities of Guangzhou and Kunming, gathers over 450 contributors from 101 international locations and areas, together with representatives of 197 mainstream media shops, assume tanks, authorities companies, diplomatic missions to China, in addition to UN companies and worldwide organizations.
Earlier this week, Fu additionally met with leaders of TASS Russian News Agency, Kyodo News, and Reuters respectively in Beijing and held a high-level assembly with executives of Reuters, The Associated Press, and Agence France-Presse.