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Media urged to play role in strengthening Pak-China ties

Xinhua, March 28, 2015 Adjust font size:

Speakers at a media forum in the Pakistani capital of Islamabad on Friday urged media persons to play their positive and active role to promote and strengthen the relations between Pakistan and China.

The media forum was organized by the Pakistan-China Media Friendship Association on its 10th founding anniversary in collaboration with COMSATS University at the Pakistan-China Friendship Center in Islamabad.

China's Ambassador to Pakistan Sun Weidong, a number of media persons from both China and Pakistan, strategists, academicians, diplomats and foreign relation experts attended the forum to discuss media potentials to further promoting relations between the two countries.

Addressing the audience, Sun Weidong said media cooperation plays a very important role in strengthening relations between the two countries and promoting people-to-people contacts.

Sun also said that a number of activities would be organized to promote media-to-media contacts during the current year 2015, marked as the China-Pakistan Year of Friendly Exchanges, so that media persons from both sides may have face-to-face talks to share their views.

In his opening remarks, chairman of the Pakistan-China Media Friendship Association, Makhdoom Babar, said the organization was founded in 2005 in Beijing after it was observed that Chinese journalists did not know much about Pakistan, and Pakistani media men also had little knowledge about China.

"We need further understanding of each other, and further understanding needs media support. Media persons can pay their contribution in promoting the relations through their words and cameras," said Babar.

Deputy Editor-in-Chief of Guanghzou Daily Zhou Chenghua said on the occasion that media of both sides have already done a lot of constructive work regarding economic and cultural cooperation between the two countries.

Urging the media of both sides to focus on the coverage of trade exchanges, Zhou said "If we the media persons play conducive role, we can bring the bilateral relations and cooperation between the two all-weather friends to a new height." Endi