VNA General Director Nguyen Duc Loi (R) and Xinhua President signs the agreement (Source: VNA) Hanoi (VNA) – The Vietnam News Agency and China’s Xinhua news agency have signed anew agreement to enhance their cooperation in the digital age.
The deal was inked in Hanoi on May 24 between Nguyen Duc Loi, member of the CommunistParty of Vietnam Central Committee and VNA General Director, and Cai Mingzhao,member of the Communist Party of China Central Committee and President of Xinhua,during the latter’s visit to Vietnam.
This is the fourth agreement between VNA and Xinhua which aims to create a legalfoundation for the two news agencies to expand collaboration in newcommunication areas besides maintaining traditional cooperation activities.
Earlier, Nguyen Duc Loi and Cai Mingzhao held talks to review the agencies’cooperation over the past time and set forth orientations for future links.
Welcoming the Xinhua President’s visit to Vietnam from May 23-27, the VNAGeneral Director expressed his sincere thanks to Xinhua for its support andassistance for VNA over more than half a century.
He noted that Xinhua’s news is one of the important sources of international informationfor VNA, especially information on China and its stance regarding severalregional and global issues of public concern.
He also informed his guest of the APEC Vietnam Year 2017, affirming that VNA,as the national news agency of the host country, is willing to provideinformation for Xinhua and assist its reporters in covering APEC events duringthe year.
Congratulating VNA on its achievements, President Cai thanked the Vietnameseagency for helping Xinhua’s correspondents in Hanoi and asserted that the finecooperation between the two news agencies should be fostered and developedfurther.
Both host and guest held that VNA and Xinhua are restructuring to takeadvantage of information technology advances to continue maintaining the keyrole of the national news agencies in the Vietnamese and Chinese press systems.
They affirmed the need to increase the sharing of experience in developing andrenovating the operational model through delegation exchanges and personneltraining support.
The two sides agreed that in the current context, the two news agencies shouldadapt to the communication environment in the digital age, expand cooperationin modern media areas and share new working methods in order to better meetrequirements of press agencies and the public.
VNA and Xinhua set up ties in the early years of the 1950s. Since then, the twonews agencies have seen effective cooperation in various fields such asinformation sharing, exchange of high-level delegations and reporters, supportfor each other’s resident bureaus and correspondents, and coordination atregional and international press forums, among others.-VNA
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