A seminar on China's Arabic media was held Wednesday in Beijing, with an aim to boost the role of China's Arabic media in exchanges and communications between China and Arab countries.
Jointly hosted by China's only Arabic periodical, the Arabic edition of China Today and the Arabic version of www.h5a3.com, the seminar drew diplomatic envoys from more than 10 Arab nations, plus some Arabic media personnel in Beijing. Both groups offered suggestions for improving China's Arabic media.
Guo Xiaoyong, administrative deputy director of the Foreign Languages Publishing and Distribution Administration of China, said the country always set great store by the work of the media. China's Arabic media not only presented China to the Arab world, but also reflected the voices of the Arab personnel working in China.
Currently, China Today, established personally by late Chinese Vice-President Song Ching Ling in 1952, was the country's only periodical appearing with a number of different foreign language editions. All the magazine's editions changed to a color format in December, 2002.
(Xinhua News Agency January 23, 2003)
