Big Projects in the Works - Moscow Celebrates Success of Media Exchange Program With China
The most successful humanitarian cooperation project between Russia and China. That’s how the Kremlin called cross-years of exchanges between the media of the two countries. Today, Moscow summed up the results.
Darya Kozlova found out what else is planned.
Cooperation between Russia and China is as stable as the Volga and the Huang He rivers flow. Impressive figures prove the beautiful metaphor of the Chinese ambassador to Russia. Over the two years of exchanges, Russian and Chinese media held over 250 events. Only a part of them is represented in the photo exhibition at the Chinese embassy. Festivals, forums, concerts and, of course, thousands of new acquaintances and contracts. including in such a delicate sphere, as media. The closing ceremony of the exchange years was held on Thursday at the Chinese embassy. Representatives of the two countries' governments assisted the ceremony.
Li Hui, Chinese ambassador to Russia: "I hope that our two countries' media will develop in accordance with the pace of the Russian-Chinese relations development, go hand-in-hand and work side-by-side. I hope they will together tell about Russia and China".
The years of media exchanges became the most successful project in the humanitarian cooperation between Russia and China. It was the beginning of the media forums tradition. Cultural relations are developing between citizens of Russia and China.
Maria Zakharova, the Foreign Ministry spokesperson: "Contacts between people is the most important thing and the basis of this strategic cooperation. The most important thing, the basis of the relationship is people knowing each other, receiving reliable information fast, having an opportunity to ask questions and to be heard".
The number of viewers of Chinese channels in Russia and of Russian channels in China.
Margarita Simonyan, Editor-in-chief of RT: "Chinese television is broadcast in Russia, and RT was the first channel to start operating in China. We exchange videos and photos, we hold internships for Chinese journalists here in Russia, heads of Chinese TV channels come to Russia to adopt our best practices".
These days, VGTRK is filming a new project in China about the youth of the Chinese leader, Xi Jinping. It's about the years of losses and the time which young Xi spent in one of the poorest Chinese provinces, Shanxi. A new agreement was signed on the cooperation between news agencies.
Dmitry Kiselyov, Russia Today CEO: "As for the Rossiya Segodnya agency, we made a huge breakthrough with the China Radio International, the CRI, it's the accepted abbreviation. Together, we made a smartphone application. And now, every Chinese resident can have a smartphone with an application "Russia-China, the main news." It has a news feed, comments, reports. There are 4 million users in China. We count on having 40 million".
The solemn closing ceremony of the exchange years isn't an end or a sum-up, but a symbol of a successful start. New agreements and big projects, including TV projects, are ahead.
Darya Kozlova, Vasily Yurchuk, Daniil Prokhudin, Yaroslava Butonova, Vesti