BEIJING, Nov. 5 (Xinhua) -- President of Xinhua News Agency Fu Hua met separately in Beijing on Thursday with Abdul Hakim, president director of Indonesia's Antara News Agency, and Yoshiki Kishida, senior managing director for international affairs of Japan's Jiji Press.
Fu also had a group meeting with representatives of major African media outlets, including Loyce Mkwayaya Saili, director of Zambia News and Information Services. The media leaders are in China for the 7th World Media Summit (WMS).
Fu welcomed the media leaders from various countries to China for the summit, noting that the WMS is a major gathering of the global media community, and that this edition coincides with the 95th anniversary of the founding of Xinhua.
Fu said Xinhua is ready to work together with participating media under the theme "Media in the Intelligent Age: From Consensus to Action", to explore in depth how artificial intelligence can be better harnessed to empower news gathering and editing, and jointly uphold journalistic credibility. He added that Xinhua looks forward to further strengthening cooperation with various media organizations to promote closer people-to-people ties and play a positive and constructive role in advancing relations between countries.
Congratulating Xinhua on its 95th anniversary, Abdul Hakim said that Antara News Agency and Xinhua News Agency have long maintained friendly cooperation and Antara hopes to learn from Xinhua's effective practices in empowering news gathering and editing with technology. He expressed appreciation of Xinhua's important role in promoting global media exchanges and cooperation, and the willingness to strengthen cooperation between the two agencies within a multilateral framework.
Yoshiki Kishida expressed his delight at attending the event in China. Noting that better application of artificial intelligence in news reporting is a common challenge for the media and a key topic at this summit, he said he looks forward to strengthening cooperation with Xinhua on this front.
Pointing out that Xinhua is a globally influential media organization, the African media representatives expressed hope for deeper practical cooperation with Xinhua to accelerate the modernization of news gathering and editing operations of African media, boost their capacity to apply new technologies and produce multimedia content, and enable African media to better make their voices heard.
On the same day, Xinhua also signed cooperation documents with the Gabon News Agency and Lesotho News Agency, agreeing to deepen cooperation in such areas as news information exchange and personnel exchanges. ■
