Belt and Road is project for development of all of Eurasia. World Media Summit in China
For the fifth time, the People's Republic of China hosted the World Media Summit dedicated to the global project of reviving the Great Silk Road, Kabar reports.
This task is being achieved through the large-scale One Belt, One Road Initiative, the 10th anniversary of which was celebrated this year. Partner countries are moving towards creating a common space of prosperity and development and building a more equitable system of international relations. In this context, the important role of “conductor of ideas and meanings” is assigned to the media, which must spread to the public the essence of the changes taking place and their ultimate goal.
This year's World Media Summit was held in the cities of Guangzhou and Kunming and was organized by Xinhua News Agency of China. More than 450 guests from all countries supporting the Belt and Road Initiative took part in the high-level forum, including representatives of leading media, think tanks, government agencies, international organizations, including the UN.
The main message of the forum was formulated as follows: “Boosting global confidence, promoting media development.” Bringing together and ideologically uniting a large space where different peoples with different cultural traditions live is not an easy task. In addition, one must also take into account the factor of external interference, in the form of fakes and outright disinformation.
Executive Chairman of the World Media Summit, Director General of Xinhua News Agency Fu Hua in his speech called on the media of different countries to achieve broad consensus, strengthen confidence in development, uphold the principles of objectivity and truthfulness to enhance the authority of the media, and deepen exchanges and interaction, promoting the construction an open, inclusive, clean and beautiful world characterized by lasting peace, shared security and prosperity.
"Historical development, the prosperity of civilization and the progress of mankind require the media to take responsibility for strengthening cohesion and confidence," said Xinhua Director General Fu Hua.
“The media plays an indispensable role in global development,” Hu Heping, deputy director of the Propaganda Department of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of China, said in his speech. “New technologies such as artificial intelligence, virtual reality and cloud computing have brought unique opportunities, but also new challenges. The media more than ever needs dialogue to resolve crisis situations,” he noted.
UN Deputy Secretary-General Melissa Fleming agreed that in today's world, humanity faces many global challenges, including deliberately unreliable and false information from the outside, aimed at inciting hostility and regional disintegration.
“Reporters with the right skills can restore balance to the flow of poison on social media feeds, and provide accurate, objective and reliable information on important issues,” Fleming concluded, pointing out that supporting objective journalism is one of the UN priorities.
Kyrgyz National News Agency Kabar was represented at the forum in China by its Director Mederbek Shermetaliev. He focused on the fact that the One Belt, One Road Initiative creates conditions for joint development and prosperity throughout the Eurasian continent. A system of fairer international relations is being formed, where each country can be more economically successful and, most importantly, protected in terms of security.
“The task of the media is precisely to reveal the creative essence and importance of these processes. It is necessary to inform the public in detail about the benefits that the implementation of large infrastructure projects will bring, because their implementation is already underway somewhere, and should begin soon somewhere. For Kyrgyzstan, this is the China-Kyrgyzstan-Uzbekistan railway,” summed up Mederbek Shermetaliev.
Editor-in-chief of Delovoi Kazakhstan newspaper Serik Korzhumbaev noted that the joint construction of the Belt and Road provides unique opportunities for cooperation in the field of media, contributing to the expansion of information flows between different regions and cultures and supporting the important values of mutual understanding and mutual enrichment.
“Cooperation between media from different countries within the framework of the Belt and Road Initiative can support the creation of more objective and comprehensive media stories about different regions of the world and strengthen mutual understanding between different cultures and peoples,” said Serik Korzhumbaev.
Representatives of all Central Asian countries noted that the Belt and Road Initiative opens a truly unique window of opportunity for the region. First of all, this is the construction of a new transport framework for Eurasia for the economic rapprochement of space; after logistics, the time will come for a production breakthrough and new technologies. At the same time, interaction in the information field is being strengthened so that the essence of the large-scale project and its goals are clear to all countries and peoples.
“What impresses me most is that humanitarianism is a core component of this initiative. Because everything that is provided for in it is ultimately aimed at improving the well-being of ordinary people,” emphasized Vugar Aliyev, Chairman of the Board of Azertag News Agency.
Following the results of the World Media Summit, the leaders of leading media made a number of important decisions aimed at strengthening cooperation, outlined promising directions, and discussed the possibility of launching joint information projects telling about the One Belt, One Road project.
