China held 2025 Media Cooperation Forum on Belt and Road 

     The 2025 Media Cooperation Forum on Belt and Road is being held in Kunming, Southwest China's Yunnan Province from Tuesday to Wednesday. The forum brings together over 200 representatives from 165 media outlets and organizations across 87 countries, as well as international and regional organizations. 

     Delegates at the forum noted that since President Xi Jinping proposed the Belt and Road Initiative (BRI) in 2013, it has achieved fruitful results and grown into a widely welcomed international public platform for international cooperation. At the recent "Shanghai Cooperation Organization (SCO) Plus" meeting in Tianjin, President Xi proposed the Global Governance Initiative, which offers China's wisdom and solutions for a more equitable global governance system and opens up new and greater spaces for high-quality Belt and Road cooperation. 

       Delegates at the forum noted that media outlets should strengthen cooperation, act as practitioners and promoters of the Silk Road spirit and promote the vision of civilization marked by equality, mutual learning, dialogue and inclusiveness.

     The delegates said that the media should document BRI development, continue to report on Belt and Road cooperation and help build wider momentum for win-win cooperation. Media should help advance mutual learning among civilizations, build understanding through quality reports, bridge divides and bring people closer together, strengthening the foundation for a community with a shared future for humanity.

     The forum is themed "Shared Media Responsibility for Exchanges and Mutual Learning among Civilizations." It comprises an opening ceremony, a main forum, several sub-forums, an award ceremony for the second Silk Road Global News Awards and the 10+3 Media Cooperation Forum.

       The forum is co-hosted by the People's Daily, the Communist Party of China (CPC) Yunnan Provincial Committee and the People's Government of Yunnan Province.

      Mr.Pei Guangjiang,Deputy Director of the International Department of People's Daily said,the media is a bridge connecting peoples of all countries and plays an important role in deepening friendship and promoting people-to-people bonds. We are willing to work with media  from all countries to deepen cooperation, achieve win-win results, and jointly report news stories from China and the world, bringing greater benefits to people of all countries.

      Since its inception in 2014, the Media Cooperation Forum on Belt and Road has been held nine times. It has attracted more than 1,000 representatives from global media outlets and international and regional organizations in over 100 countries and regions, building a broad consensus and momentum for advancing high-quality Belt and Road cooperation. 

      Following the forum, Chinese and international media representatives will work together to cover stories in Yunnan and other provinces, autonomous regions and municipalities across China.

by pipat nawatsawat