The opening ceremony for the 2019 "China Development Research and Media Exchange" program, initiated by China Public Diplomacy Association and hosted by the School of Journalism & Commmunication, was held at the Mingde Journalism Building on April 2. 

Zhang Huifeng, deputy dean of the School, Wang Haiyang, director of the Africa Center for the 2019 Program at the China International Press Center, and 50 journalists from 49 African and Asia-Pacific countries attended the opening ceremony.

Zhang Huifeng delivered a speech at the opening ceremony on behalf of the school, expressed his welcome to the foreign journalists, hoping they could learn something in Renmin University and wished the program a success. 

The journalists will attend various lectures on frontier discipline and media salons on China's politics, economy, society, culture and news media. 

Deputy dean Zhang Huifeng was delivering a speech at the opening ceremony

The journalists visited the library in journalism school of RUC

In order to strengthen pragmatic exchanges between the media from China and other developing countries and enhance their understanding about China, China Public Diplomacy Association started to organize relevant media training and exchange programs in 2014, establishing the China-Africa Press Exchange Center and the China-South Asia Press Exchange Center.

In 2018, the project was integrated and upgraded to the China International Press  Center (referred to as the "Center"), including five centers of Africa, Asia-Pacific (formerly South Asia and South East Asia), Latin America, the Caribbean and the Shanghai Cooperation Organization. 

In 2019, School of Journalism & Communication of Renmin University of China undertook the fifth foreign journalists training program for China-Africa Press Center and the second for China-Asia Pacific Press Center. 

Editor/TianTian Xiang