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BEIJING, July 12, 2022 /PRNewswire=KYODO JBN/ --

The Fifth BRICS Media Forum has recently issued the Action Plan of the BRICS

Media Forum for 2022-2023, aiming to focus on global development cooperation.  

Huang Kunming, a member of the Political Bureau of the Communist Party of China

(CPC) Central Committee and head of the Publicity Department of the CPC Central

Committee, attended the forum on Friday  in Beijing and delivered a speech.

Huang said that Chinese President Xi Jinping has recently made important

speeches on strengthening BRICS cooperation and advancing global development.

These speeches have drawn a new blueprint for and injected new impetus into

BRICS cooperation and development, he added.

Huang urged efforts to consolidate the foundation of solidarity, promote the

pursuit of the vision of common, comprehensive, cooperative and sustainable

security, and provide more stabilizing and positive momentum for jointly

building a community of security for humanity.

Huang also called for efforts to build a bridge of friendship, carry forward

the BRICS spirit of openness, inclusiveness and win-win cooperation, and boost

the BRICS cooperation.

The world is enduring a new period of turbulence and transformation, and the

international community's pursuit of peace and development, fairness and

justice, democracy and freedom, and win-win cooperation has become all the more

vital, the plan issued at the Forum says.

Noting that BRICS countries need dialogue and cooperation more than ever, the

action plan urges the media organizations of the BRICS countries to play their

role as bridges to generate strong synergy for ensuring a high-quality BRICS

partnership and strengthening the BRICS mechanism to the fullest extent.

On sharing the BRICS stories and promoting peace and development, the action

plan highlights issues such as peace, economic growth, solidarity against

COVID-19, food security, climate change and digital governance. We will plan

joint interviews, carry out cooperation on special editions, websites, and news

feeds, and undertake joint production for special feature films and live

broadcasts on trending topics at different locations. We will launch BRICS news

cooperation projects, such as BRICS Influencers and BRICS Link, to promote the

core theme of peace and development and generate positive synergy that will

benefit the five countries, it says.

On promoting the high-quality development of the forum, the action plan says

the BRICS Media Forum will implement the XIV BRICS Summit Beijing Declaration,

and continue to hold the BRICS international journalism training program.  

The BRICS Media Forum was proposed by Xinhua News Agency in 2015 and jointly

initiated with mainstream media outlets from Brazil, Russia, India, and South

Africa.

This year's event was a high-level media dialogue and exchange event following

the 14th BRICS Summit. It was attended by nearly 300 representatives of over

170 media outlets and institutions from 73 countries and regions.

Source Xinhua News