Minister of the State Administration of Radio and Television Nie Chenxi has told over 400 delegates from Africa that China and African countries should share experiences and cooperate more in media operations, program production, technical services and personnel training.
Nie made the proposal in Beijing on Tuesday during the Fourth Forum on China-Africa Media Cooperation.
More than 400 government officials and heads of media organizations from more than 40 African countries and China attended. Discussions included media policy exchanges, digitization and content development. Twelve cooperative agreements were signed.
The Joint Statement on Further Deepening Exchanges and Cooperation was adopted, declaring a consensus that China and African countries will intensify policy dialogues and deepen industrial cooperation in media.
The forum is to coordinate with the 2018 Beijing Summit of the Forum on China-Africa Cooperation to be held in September. It would help further implement media sector tasks in the action plan created during the 2015 Johannesburg Summit of FOCAC in South Africa.
Nie also called for exploration on new areas of media cooperation and the broadening of cooperative fields.
Sierra Leone was represented by the Minister Councilor of the Sierra Leone Embassy, Sahid Kamara and students studying journalism in Beijing.
He said African countries are still in need of facilities, funds, techniques and most importantly, quality content.
“I hope that through today’s forum, our needs can be seen and more joint efforts will be taken to improve the quality and quantity of the programs,” Kamara said.
AT/27/6/18
By Austin Thomas
Thursday June 28, 2018.
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