The fourth board meeting of the “Belt and Road” News Cooperation Alliance was held and a joint declaration was issued

China News Service, Fuzhou, November 3 (Reporter Yan Xu) The fourth board meeting of the "Belt and Road" News Cooperation Alliance was held in Fuzhou on the 3rd. Representatives of 38 governing units from 23 countries attended the meeting.

The chairman unit, People's Daily, made a work report on the third session of the alliance's council. The report pointed out that since the establishment of the current council in August 2024, the alliance has made new positive progress in various undertakings, gathering a broader media consensus and injecting stronger cooperation impetus for the joint construction of the "Belt and Road".

As of now, the alliance has 327 media member units from 120 countries and is an iconic public diplomacy brand under the "Belt and Road" cooperation framework. In the future, the Alliance Council plans to focus on promoting the alliance's expansion and quality improvement, innovative media exchanges, responding to changes in smart technology, and expanding the international influence of the "Silk Road Award".

The meeting adopted and issued the "Joint Declaration of the Fourth Council Meeting of the Belt and Road News Cooperation Alliance". The declaration proposed that we should stick to our original aspirations and share the mission of the times; focus on development and jointly expand universal welfare; watch for peace and jointly care for public opinion; advocate mutual learning and jointly promote exchanges among civilizations; make good use of intelligence and jointly build governance consensus; deepen cooperation and jointly gather potential energy from all sides.

The list of the fourth Alliance Council was announced at the meeting, and 42 media companies from 26 countries became the new governing units. Representatives of each governing unit conducted in-depth exchanges on topics such as how to better play the role of the alliance, successfully host the international communication "Silk Road Award", and promote people-to-people connections across countries.

Shamsu Huq Zaid, Editor-in-Chief and CEO of Bangladesh Financial Express, believes that the core goal of the alliance should be to tell the stories of the people. Alliance members should further focus on digital integration, organize journalists to carry out joint investigative reporting, and promote regular talent exchanges among members.

Marta Declatus, deputy president and deputy editor-in-chief of the Belarusian "Belarus Today" publishing group, said that she is willing to further strengthen content exchanges and actively share reports and information of interest to audiences in China and other member states of the alliance.