The China-Russia Media Forum1 is focusing on how to improve international communication in the era of all media.
中俄媒体论坛致力于提高全媒体时代下的国际交流。
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
jointly6 boost the China-Russia comprehensive strategic
partnership7 of
coordination8 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.