Ladies and gentlemen,

A few days ago, the Chinese people celebrated the 60th anniversary of the founding of the People's Republic of China. After 60 years of hard work, especially 30 years of reform and opening up, historic changes have taken place in the outlook of China and the Chinese people. The China of today, whose comprehensive national strength has grown significantly and whose people lead moderately prosperous lives, is beaming with unprecedented dynamism and creativity. At the same time, we are keenly aware that China remains the world's largest developing country, and faces tensions and problems in its development of a scale and complexity not seen anywhere in the world. China still has a long way to go before it can build a moderately prosperous society of a higher level that will benefit more than 1 billion people, and goes on to achieve basic modernization and bring common prosperity to all its people. China will continue to follow the path of socialism with Chinese characteristics in light of its national conditions, promote all-round development in the economic, political, cultural, social and ecological fields, and strive to ensure that its development is for the people and by the people and the fruits of development are shared among the people. China will stay firmly on the path of peaceful development, remain committed to the win-win strategy of opening up, and continue to conduct friendly cooperation with all countries on the basis of the Five Principles of Peaceful Coexistence.

In pressing ahead with reform, opening up and socialist modernization, the Chinese Government has always attached great importance to the development of the media, encouraging and supporting Chinese media to stay close to national conditions and people's lives and concerns, and use new concepts, new content, new methods and new means in order to be more accessible, attractive and appealing to the people. Media organizations in China are also encouraged to play an important role in promoting healthy trends, reflecting social conditions and public mood, guiding public focus, soothing public dissatisfaction and ensuring supervision by public opinion, as well as in safeguarding the people's right to stay informed of, participate in, express views about and oversee government affairs. The government also supports Chinese media in enhancing exchanges and cooperation with their foreign counterparts in news transmission, human resources, information technology and business development. An increasing number of foreign media organizations, including those represented here today, have sent resident reporters to China. The number of foreign journalists on short-term reporting missions is also on the rise. Foreign media coverage of China is growing in terms of content, scope and range, and plays an important role in informing people around the world of the development and changes in contemporary China. We will continue to promote transparency in government affairs, enhance information release, safeguard the lawful rights and interests of foreign news organizations and reporters in accordance with China's laws and regulations, and facilitate foreign media coverage of China. We sincerely hope that media organizations from around the world will make new contribution to deepening the world's understanding of China, and helping to consolidate and develop friendship between the Chinese people and other peoples.

Ladies and gentlemen,

As media organizations, you have to share destiny with the people and keep pace with the times. I am confident that through your combined efforts, this summit will deliver positive results in promoting exchanges and cooperation among media organizations around the world and contribute to the development of the global media industry.

Thank you.

Source: www.fmprc.gov.cn