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Spotlight: China-Russia Media Forum conducive to mutual understanding, bilateral ties

Xinhua, June 27, 2015 Adjust font size:

Russian officials and experts spoke highly of the China-Russia Media Forum held here on Thursday, agreeing that it will help promote mutual understanding between the two nations as well as bilateral relations.

Deputy Minister of Communications and Mass Media Alexei Volin said that the forum was one of the first concrete measures to implement the decisions of the two countries' leaders to hold the Year of China-Russia Media Communication in 2016 and 2017.

The forum has specified the main areas of media cooperation between Russia and China, Volin said.

"We believe that the main areas of cooperation include new media, new technological platforms, promoting the integration of China's Silk Road Economic Belt initiative with the Russia-led Eurasian Economic Union framework, as well as production and distribution of movies and TV series," Volin said.

Volin stressed that representatives from China and Russia welcomed the proposals put forward by the leaders of the two sides. "We should try to enrich the Year of China-Russia Media Communication in the years to come, and help the event bear fruitful results," he said.

Echoing Volin's remarks, Dmitry Kiselev, head of the state-run Russia Today international news agency, said the forum showed that Russians and Chinese would like to know each other better.

The forum has also shown that the two countries have the common aspiration to strengthen media cooperation in the dissemination of global information, Kiselev said.

Russia and China are both advocates of multi-polarization, Kiselev noted. "In that aspect, there will be huge room for media cooperation between the two sides," he said.

Andrei Bystritsky, dean of the Faculty of Communications, Media and Design at Moscow's National Research University Higher School of Economics, believed that a forum of this kind is the best approach for the two countries to consolidate bilateral relations.

Mass media in the two countries should be dedicated to promoting bilateral understanding and telling the truth about China-Russia cooperation initiatives, Bystritsky said.

"The media forum is quite necessary as it can serve as a platform to help media of the two countries to know each other, laying a foundation for future cooperation," he said.

He added that the consensus to link China's Silk Road Economic Belt undertaking with the development strategies of the Russia-led Eurasian Economic Union was also one of the major subjects at Thursday's China-Russia Media Forum.

Bystritsky said mass media should create a favorable atmosphere for integration, and explained to the audience the advantages their countries will enjoy.

As China-Russia relations are at an all-time high, there are broad prospects for media cooperation, which is expected to play a positive role in deepening the strategic partnership and enhancing mutual understanding between the two countries, he said. Endi