2015年CRI 中俄媒体加强合作增进国际交流

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The China-Russia Media Forum¹ is focusing on how to improve international communication in the era of all media.

Participants will also discuss the media's role in promoting the integration² of the two countries' development strategies and boosting new-media exchanges and cooperation between China and Russia.

Liu Qibao, head of the Publicity³ Department of the Communist Party of China Central Committee, is leading the Chinese delegation⁴ at the forum.

He has called for Chinese and Russian media to cooperate more closely to advance the two countries' relations.

"As China-Russia relations have been making great strides, media organizations of both sides should deepen exchanges and center their cooperation on the two countries' major strategic blueprints⁵, initiatives and projects, so as to jointly⁷ boost the China-Russia comprehensive strategic partnership⁸ of coordination⁹ and facilitate the integration of China's Silk Road Economic Belt initiative with the Russia-led Eurasian Economic Union framework."

Also attending the forum is a CRI delegation led by Director-general Wang Gengnian.

On the sidelines of the forum, Wang and Dmitry Kiselyov, President of Russia's international news agency Russia Today, have signed a supplement to the cooperation agreement between the two news organizations.

Under the new deal, CRI and Russia Today will deepen cooperation in such areas as program and information exchanges, joint⁶ reporting projects and new media development.

During President Xi Jinping's visit to Russia in May, the two countries decided¹⁰ to launch a "China-Russia Media Exchange Year" from 2016 to 2017.

As part of the program, CRI and Russia Today have agreed to launch a joint reporting project in areas covered by China's Silk Road Economic Belt initiative.

Wang Gengnian says it's part of a broader project in China-Russia media cooperation.

"During the 'China-Russia Media Exchange Year', CRI will take the initiative in elevating the media cooperation between the two countries. Topping our agenda will be a round-table meeting of the Media Council, a Silk Road-themed joint reporting project and a new episode of our joint project 'Hello, China'. We hope to demonstrate the concrete results of the bilateral¹¹ media cooperation through the multi-media platform."

For the past 10 years, CRI has been striving to promote China-Russia cultural exchanges through media cooperation.

It has so far established cooperative partnerships¹² with five state-level media outlets¹³ in Russia.

For CRI, I'm Qi Zhi.