2022 Asian Media Workshop kicked off Online in Beijing on the morning of November 30 with participants from nearly ten Asian countries, taking part in the week-long high profile Media activity, based on developing Media platform with shared perception and win-win cooperation.
Addressing the opening ceremony, Makhdoom Babar, President and Editor-in-Chief of The Daily Mail and Chairman of Pakistan China Media Friendship Association, said that the event was yet another magnificent initiative by the hosts, People's Daily, who after temporary suspension of Annual BRI Media Summits, due to COVID spread, found out yet another way to make Media persons from different countries share a joint podium to exchange their views, share their thoughts and learn more cooperation, especially the Media cooperation.
"We the Media persons and the Media Organizations of the Asian countries are by no means lesser in any form and manifestation than the Western Journalists and their Media Houses. In fact in many areas we are more true, accurate and bold than the Western Journalists and Western Media Organizations," said Babar.
The Daily Mail's President, while quoting an example of synchronized Media methodology, said that during the early stages of COVID Pandemic, a team of The Daily Mail's Investigative Journalists, including one of its Beijing-based Journalist prepared a comprehensive investigative report, highlighting all the ground realities regarding China's extraordinary efforts to very effectively combat the COVID spread and to save millions and millions of precious lives not only in China but across the World as well.
"While this report gained a very productive feedback from The Daily Mail's audiences across the World yet it became highly effective in highlighting the truth only after it was reproduced by People's Daily and Beijing Review etc. when they put it on their Web Editions and Social Media Platforms across the World. There this report started yet in millions and millions of positive responses within hours. This happened because of the extensive Media cooperation between Chinese and Pakistani Media under the umbrella of Pakistan China Media Friendship Association, formed back in 2005/2006," said Babar.
The DM Chief said, "Telling China's success stories was absolutely not merely praising China but in fact it was very essential to bring awareness about how these things could be learned from China for the betterment of our own respective societies. For instance, if I or my Newspaper publishes China's tremendous efforts of pulling up hundreds of millions of its people from poverty through CPC's poverty alleviation drive or CPC's policies to show zero tolerance for corruption, it does not mean that I or my Newspaper are doing some favors to Chinese Government or the CPC but in fact it is mine and my Organization's professional effort to show my government and my peoples that this is very possible to be replicated in our country as well," concluded Babar.
The Workshop, organized by China's leading Newspaper People's Daily will continue till the 7th of this month during which a lot of interactive activities and lectures from high-profile experts will be delivered.
