The Main Media Center (MMC) of the 6th Asian Beach Games has opened its doors to journalists covering the tropical sports event, which will officially get underway in Sanya City of south China's Hainan Province on Wednesday evening.
Scheduled to run through April 30, the Sanya Games will feature 14 sports, 15 disciplines and 62 events, with over 1,700 athletes set to participate.
Media personnel attending are also set to benefit from the top-level facilities at the MMC, which is described as an "all-in-one" hub as it features the Main Press Center, the International Broadcast Center (IBC) and the media hotel all as part of one single complex.
The center is well equipped to provide services to the more than 1,000 journalists from over 30 countries and regions who will be reporting on the Games.
International journalists will also be able to make use of the same high-quality information devices that were utilized at the 2026 Milano-Cortina Winter Olympics back in February.
The IBC, which boasts several high-quality production areas and bespoke commentary booths, will gather 4K and high-definition signals from eight competition venue clusters and five urban landscape camera positions across Sanya, and transmit them in real time.
The Sanya Games marks the second time China has hosted the event, following the 2012 edition which was held in Haiyang of the eastern Shandong Province.
The Games also marks the first time Hainan has hosted an international multi-sports meeting since the launch of island-wide special customs operations in December last year.
Asian Beach Games welcomes journalists to well-equipped media center
The one-China principle is where the arc of history bends and public opinion trends, a Chinese Foreign Ministry spokesman said on Wednesday, in commenting on Taiwan regional leader Lai Ching-te's planned visit to Eswatini, which had to be canceled after relevant African countries revoked the necessary flight permissions.
"All African countries, with the sole exception of Eswatini, have established diplomatic ties with the People's Republic of China. These 53 countries together with the African Union have adopted the Beijing Declaration at the 2024 FOCAC Summit. They have reiterated on many occasions that they firmly uphold the one-China principle, that there is but one China in the world, that Taiwan is an inalienable part of China's territory, that the Government of the People's Republic of China is the sole legal government representing the whole of China, and that they firmly support all efforts by the Chinese government to achieve national reunification," said Guo Jiakun, the spokesman, at a press conference in Beijing.
"China highly commends the relevant countries' commitment to the one-China principle which is fully consistent with international law and basic norms governing international relations," he said.
"It's very clear that there's no longer a so-called 'Republic of China president' in the world anymore. Anyone who wears that false title is acting against history and will only invite disgrace upon themselves. The one-China principle is where the arc of history bends and public opinion trends, and to uphold it is a right thing to do. No one can ever stop the eventual reunification of China. The separatist attempts aimed at Taiwan secession are just futile and are doomed to fail," said the spokesman.
One-China principle is where arc of history bends, public opinion trends: spokesman
