Hosted by People's Daily, the Media Cooperation Forum of the Silk Road Economic Belt was held in Beijing on Wednesday. Nearly 100 officials, diplomats and media representatives from China, Russia, India, Iran, Turkey, Pakistan and some central Asian countries including Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Turkmenistan, Tajikistan, Uzbekistan were present at the forum. 

Last September, President Xi Jinping proposed the strategic vision of common construction of the Silk Road Economic Belt when delivering a speech at Nazarbayev University in Kazakhstan, which has sketched a grand blueprint for further deepening cooperation between Asian and European countries in the new era and has provided a new opportunity for further promotion of national and regional development, said Li Haifeng, vice chairperson of the National Committee of the Chinese People's Political Consultative Conference, when delivering a keynote speech.

Telling the new stories on the Silk Road and creating a new Silk Road brilliant need media work together, said Yang Zhenwu, President of People's Daily.

The Media Silk Road Economic Belt also has two sub-forums: city development forum of the Silk Road Economic Belt and roundtable dialogue of the Media Cooperation Forum of the Silk Road Economic Belt.

The article is edited and translated from《丝绸之路经济带媒体合作论坛开幕》, source: People's Daily author: Pei Guangjiang