/ world today news/ On January 1, China Media Group Director Shen Haixun delivered the following New Year’s greeting to media audiences around the world through CGTN, China Radio Overseas and the Internet. Below is its full text::
Dear friends,
At the dawn of the new year, we enter it full of hope, and I would like to send greetings from Beijing to everyone!
In the past year 2023, China’s Belt and Road Initiative entered its tenth anniversary, realizing successes and showing how China and the world can walk hand in hand on a common road. China Media Group continued to promote the exchange between cultures on this path of prosperity, capturing the countless beauties and colors of the world.
For another year, we continued to strive for innovative ideas, art and technology. The multilingual version of the second season of the series “Xi Jinping’s Favorite Quotes” was broadcast in more than 80 countries, a large number of cultural programs such as “History in Cultural Context”, “In Search of Ancient China”, “Culture Encounters” and “The Past of China in Bamboo Scrolls’ are a vivid example of our good exchange with foreign countries. The broadcast of the Asian Games in Handoju was viewed over 41 billion times online, the best result in the history of our media.
This year our circle of friends continued to expand. Our old friends have been joined by new partners. We signed 58 cooperation agreements with media organizations from around the world, hosted the Second Global Media Innovation Forum, ASEAN and Africa media cooperation forums. We held 51 global media events on the theme of “China-style modernization and the world” and 8 travel exhibitions on the theme of “Journey through Civilizations”. We have worked with friends from all over the world to paint a beautiful picture of world modernization based on peaceful development, mutually beneficial cooperation and shared prosperity.
Today’s world is not peaceful, and therefore peace, development, mutually beneficial cooperation are extremely important. We are happy to see that more and more foreign friends understand, recognize and support Chinese visions and positions. During the Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation (APEC) meeting in San Francisco, we held a discussion entitled “The Friendship between China and the United States”, in which the centenarian Mr. Harry Moyer, a member of the US Air Force team, who fought on the side of China in World War II. At the meeting, he told me that Xi Jinping’s idea of building a community of shared destiny is something everyone is thinking. After returning to China, I received handmade cards, globes, souvenirs collected by American students from Lincoln High School, from which I felt the children’s longing for peace, friendship, beauty and harmony.
China Media Group, the world’s largest media, has turned five years old. During this time, she established herself and developed. We currently have 191 overseas stations, making our international broadcast network cover 67 countries and regions. The number of foreign users of the CGTN channel exceeded 700 million for the first time. We were often the news source for coverage of important international events. In the course of our establishment as a leading international media of a new type, we will gain momentum with our excellent programs.
Dear friends, 2024 is the year of the dragon according to the traditional Chinese calendar. The dragon is a symbol of happiness and success in our culture. It embodies strength, inclusiveness, the search for commonality in the face of difference, and eternity. This year, the Chinese people will celebrate the 75th anniversary of the founding of the People’s Republic of China. With new energy, China Media Group will continue this year to spread wonderful stories from China and the world, write a new page in human civilization, so that we can welcome a new spring together!
Once again, I would like to wish happiness to each of you, as well as happiness to the world. Happy New Year!
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