ASEAN-China Media Week Opens in Guangxi

The 2024 ASEAN Partner Media Cooperation Week opened in southern city of Guilin on Friday, gathering some 200 government officials, media professionals and scholars from China and ASEAN countries to explore media's role in strengthening regional cooperation.

Co-sponsored by China Media Group (CMG) and the government of Guangxi Zhuang Autonomous Region, the event featured in-depth exchanges on the opening day revolving its theme "New Quality, Coexistence, Civilization."

The opening event launched the ASEAN Media Partners "China Up Close" Guangxi Tour, which involves journalists from mainstream media outlets of seven ASEAN countries teaming up with CMG and local media reporter to conduct in-depth reporting on Guangxi's high-quality development and tell stories of China's modernization to the world. A series of the latest achievements in CMG's cooperation with Guangxi were released at the opening event. CMG also launched a documentary on the Pinglu Canal, a part of China's new western land-sea corridor, and released the documentary Sweet Guangxi which takes the audience on a vivid journey to the colorful autonomous region.

The China-ASEAN Media Complex "Ethereal Sound ASEAN Audio Vivid," a new audio platform to promote China-ASEAN cultural exchange backed by CMG's technology, also opened on Friday.

The 2026 annual meeting of the World Economic Forum closed Friday in the Swiss Alpine town of Davos.

The five-day meeting, which opened Monday, brought together about 3,000 leaders and experts from 130 countries and regions.

Under the theme "A Spirit of Dialogue," the meeting focused on five pressing global challenges: how to cooperate in a more contested world, unlock new sources of growth, better invest in people, deploy innovation at scale and responsibly, and build prosperity within planetary boundaries.