Chinese president calls on media to contribute to harmonious world

Chinese president calls on media to contribute to harmonious world
BEIJING, Oct. 9 (Xinhua) -- Chinese President Hu Jintao on Friday called on media organizations around the world to contribute to building a harmonious world when they are facing unprecedented opportunities and challenges. 
    Hu made the remarks in a speech at the opening ceremony of the World Media Summit, which gathered about 300 representatives from more than 170 media outlets from around the world.
    He said the world is in a period of great development, major transformation and extensive readjustment. Multi-polarity and economic globalization are developing profoundly, and worldwide exchanges of ideologies and cultures are becoming more frequent and active, with closer interconnections among nations.
    The president also reminded the audience of the challenges the world faces, including the continuing impact of the global financial crisis, growing imbalance in development, climate changes, food security and energy resources security, as well as terrorism, cross-nation organized crime, major infectious diseases and other threats in non-conventional security areas.
    "Unstable and uncertain factors are increasing. There are many challenges to world peace and development," he said.
    "Facing unprecedented opportunities and challenges, media organizations around the world should conform to the trends of the times, go forward together, and strive to contribute to building a harmonious world with lasting peace and common prosperity," said Hu.
Chinese president: media summit to deepen understanding of peoples
BEIJING, Oct. 9 (Xinhua) -- Chinese President Hu Jintao on Friday expressed belief that the World Media Summit Friday will help deepen mutual understanding and friendship among peoples of all nations.
    Speaking at the opening ceremony of the World Media Summit, Hu said the summit, under the theme of "Cooperation, Action, Win-Win and Development", reflects concerns about the challenges the global media industry is facing, demonstrates the willingness of all media to enhance exchanges and cooperation and seek common development, and shows the resolve of media staff to commit themselves to promoting world peace and development.
    "I believe, with in-depth discussions and extensive exchanges focused on the theme, the meeting will help strengthen cooperation among media organizations from around the world, boost the healthy and orderly development of the global media industry, and deepen mutual understanding and friendship among people of all nations," he said.
    About 300 representatives from more than 170 media outlets from around the world attended the summit at the Great Hall of the People to discuss how to survive, develop and achieve cooperation and a win-win situation as well as realize strategic transformation by using new technologies.
Chinese president urges global media to promote world peace, development
BEIJING, Oct. 9 (Xinhua) -- Chinese President Hu Jintao on Friday urged global media to promote world peace and development, and to contribute to building a harmonious world with lasting peace and common prosperity.
    Hu made the remarks while delivering a speech at the opening ceremony of the World Media Summit, which gathered about 300 representatives from more than 170 media outlets from around the world.
    "The media should use their distinctive assets and advantages to convey the messages of peace, development, cooperation, mutual benefit and tolerance," he said.
    "All media organizations should be dedicated to the lofty cause of pushing forward peace and development," he said.
    He said the world's media should promote all countries to respect each other and consult with each other on an equal footing politically, to cooperate with complementary advantages economically, to learn from each other and seek common grounds while accepting differences in cultural exchanges, to increase mutual trust and cooperation in maintaining security, and to help each other for advancement in environmental protection, so as to jointly create a better future for mankind.
    Against the backdrop of global financial crisis, Hu said, the world's media should comprehensively cover the measures taken and the achievements as all countries -- in the same boat in times of trouble -- have strengthened cooperation and worked together to overcome difficulties.
    "This is the way the media can contribute to the recovery and healthy and stable development of the world economy," he said.
Chinese president says world's media should respect each other
 BEIJING, Oct. 9 (Xinhua) -- Chinese President Hu Jintao said Friday that the world media should respect each other and carry out exchanges on an equal footing. on an equal footing  处于同等地位,平等地
    Hu made the remarks while delivering a speech at the opening ceremony of the World Media Summit, which gathered about 300 representatives from more than 170 media outlets from around the world.
    "The media should uphold the ideas of equality, mutual trust, mutual benefit and common development, and better facilitate exchanges and cooperation," he said.
    He said the media around the world, regardless of the cultural background, abilities and size, should respect and trust each other, treat others as equals, seek common grounds while shelving differences, and learn from each other through exchanges.
    He said the world's media should fully consider each other's practical situations, respond to each other's appeals through consultation, take into account each other's interests, keep a balance between competition and cooperation, and strive to be mutually complementary, helpful and beneficial.
    "They should share successful experiences, create a favorable environment for development, work together to cope with challenges and seek common development," hesaid.
President Hu: China sticks to peaceful development, opening-up strategy
BEIJING, Oct. 9 (Xinhua) -- Chinese President Hu Jintao said Friday China will stick to peaceful development and the opening-up strategy that highlights mutual benefit and win-win cooperation.
    Hu told the World Media Summit held Friday in Beijing that "China will seek friendly cooperation with all countries on the basis of the Five Principles of Peaceful Co-existence," he said.
    "We soberly keep in mind that China is still the world's largest developing country, and faces conflicts and problems rarely seen in terms of adj. 按照(依据,用...词句,用...来,通过)their scale and complexity," he said. "China still has a long way to go before it can build a well off society that can benefit more than one billion people, and achieve basic modernization and the common prosperity of all its people."
    He said China will adheres to the path of socialism with Chinese characteristics in accordance with national conditions and promote all-round development in the economic, political, cultural, social and ecological arenas, and to go all out to ensure that the development is for the people and by the people and the fruits of development are shared by the people
Chinese president calls on media to contribute to harmonious world
 BEIJING, Oct. 9 (Xinhua) -- Chinese President Hu Jintao on Friday called on media organizations around the world to contribute to building a harmonious world when they are facing unprecedented opportunities and challenges.
    Hu made the remarks in a speech at the opening ceremony of the World Media Summit, which gathered about 300 representatives from more than 170 media outlets from around the world.
    He said the world is in a period of great development, major transformation and extensive readjustment. Multi-polarity and economic globalization are developing profoundly, and worldwide exchanges of ideologies and cultures are becoming more frequent and active, with closer interconnections among nations.
    The president also reminded the audience of the challenges the world faces, including the continuing impact of the global financial crisis, growing imbalance in development, climate changes, food security and energy resources security, as well as terrorism, cross-nation organized crime, major infectious diseases and other threats in non-conventional security areas.
    "Unstable and uncertain factors are increasing. There are many challenges to world peace and development," he said.
    "Facing unprecedented opportunities and challenges, media organizations around the world should conform to the trends of the times, go forward together, and strive to contribute to building a harmonious world with lasting peace and common prosperity," said Hu.
President Hu pledges to safeguard rights, interests of foreign media in China
BEIJING, Oct. 9 (Xinhua) -- Chinese President Hu Jintao said Friday the Chinese government will safeguard the legitimate rights and interests of foreign news media and continue to facilitate foreign media coverage of China in accordance with the law.
    "We will continue to make government affairs public, enhance information distribution, safeguard the legitimate rights and interests of foreign news organizations and reporters, and facilitate foreign media coverage of China in accordance with China's laws and regulations," Hu said while addressing the World Media Summit in Beijing.
    Foreign media coverage of China is growing in terms of its scale, scope and range, which "has played an important role in helping people around the world understand the development and changes in China," he said.
    "We sincerely hope that media organizations from around the world can make new contribution to deepening the world's understanding of China, and helping consolidate and develop friendship between the Chinese people and those in the rest of the world."
    The government also supports the Chinese media in enhancing exchanges and cooperation with their foreign counterparts in news communication, human resources, informationtechnologies and business development, he said.
    Hu said the government has always attached great importance to the development of the media, encouraging the Chinese media to be close to national conditions, life and the masses, and to create new concepts, new content, new methods and new means in order to make the media more accessible, attractive and appealing.
    The Chinese media are also encouraged to play a key role in beefing up healthy trends, reflecting social conditions and public opinions, orienting public focuses, soothing public dissatisfaction, ensuring supervision by public opinion, and safeguarding the public rights to information, participation in public affairs, expression and supervision.
President Hu pledges more transparency, urges media social responsibilities
BEIJING, Oct. 9 (Xinhua) -- President Hu Jintao promised Friday China will continue to make government affairs public and enhance information distribution, and at the same time he called on news media to uphold social responsibilities.
    Media organizations should promote the "true, correct, comprehensive and objective communication of information," Hu said in a keynote speech at the World Media Summit at the Great Hall of the People in central Beijing.
    With the media's growing influence, "it is more important than ever before that the media should establish and uphold social responsibilities," he said.
    Hu pledged the Chinese government will safeguard the legitimate rights and interests of foreign news media and continue to facilitate foreign media coverage of China in accordance with the law.
    He called on global media to promote world peace and development, and to contribute to building a harmonious world with lasting peace and common prosperity.
    About 300 representatives from more than 170 media outlets from around the globe gathered in Beijing Friday to discuss the seismic shifts and challenges in the industry at the World Media Summit (WMS).
    The World Media Summit, launched by Xinhua andeight other world media organizations, attracted leading wire services, radio and television broadcasters, newspapers and magazines, and on-line media from around the world.
　　SOCIAL RESPONSIBILITIES
    Under the theme of "Cooperation, Action, Win-Win and Development," the summit has been in an effort to help global media explore ways of survival and development in time of the current economic downturn and changing landscape of the media industry, said Li Congjun, President of Xinhua News Agency.
    Li said the world's media must always adhere to their social responsibility and the role in improving public welfare despite challenges from the financial crisis and information technologies.
    The social responsibility topic was discussed by several other media organizations.
    Director General of Russian news agency Itar-Tass Vitaly Nikitich Ignatenko said mass media needed moral guidelines to prevent from disseminating ideas of extremism, terrorism, xenophobia and racial intolerance to counteract the modern threats and challenges.
    "We believe the media have a social responsibility to promote world peace by sharing news and information about everyday events and by furthering mutual understanding in a way that goes beyond the limits of countries and regions," said President of Kyodo News Satoshi Ishikawa.
    Editor-in-Chief of Reuters David Schlesinger stressed the media's role in promoting a healthy market economy by providing transparency against the backdrop of global financial crisis.
    Schlesinger said the role of financial media was central to delivering the objectives of informed and transparent financial markets, as well as the social stability that depends upon economic success.
    COPING WITH CHALLENGES
    Major media houses also discussed how to cope with challenges in the digital era.
    According to the world's search engine giant Google, a co-sponsor of the WMS, the Internet has changed the world profoundly over the past 10 years -- 2 billion people now search information online every day and 100 billion non-spam emails and instant messages were sent every day.
    All news organizations face the same mission -- get all the way across the burning bridge from analog to digital journalism and to make the difficult choices that this crossing presents, said Associated Press President and CEO Thomas Curley.
    Chairman and CEO of News Corporation Rupert Murdoch said media organizations should "adapt and adopt" as they were confronted by "unprecedented change and challenge" amid a digital revolution.
    "Media companies know that if you do not respond intelligently and creatively to the digital challenge, your future will be bleak indeed,"
    Murdoch said global media had been "submissive" as the flat-earthers insisted that all news content on the Internet should be free.
    Curley called on news providers to find breakthroughs to common challenges and become "game-changers."
    To give an example, he said an arc was introduced onto the basketball court in 1986, which immediately changed the game as teams were rewarded with three points for successes behind the new line.
    "The small changes drive real innovation," Curley said.
    Jeffrey Gralnick, an NBC News special consultant, called on media houses to "think small in big ways" when tackling the current challenges.