2026 APEC Economic Leaders' Week media center opens in Shenzhen

The media center for the 2026 APEC Economic Leaders' Week opened in southern China's tech hub of Shenzhen on Wednesday, with a 15,000-square-meter facility designed to serve nearly 5,000 accredited journalists covering the event.

Inside the press center is an eye-catching art installation, symbolizing the Asia-Pacific economies joining hands and setting sail together toward a shared future.

The center houses a central public workspace with about 700 standard workstations for journalists covering the meeting week.

The facility features digital technology including China's first HarmonyOS-powered smart studio, paired with XR virtual production and 4K ultra-high-definition signal transmission. Intelligent editing tools are also available to help journalists with rapid video editing and multilingual production.

A dedicated "Home of Journalists" space presents intangible cultural heritage, interactive smart displays and a city photography exhibition, showing Shenzhen's development and vitality to media.

"To facilitate Chinese and international journalists covering the event, we have established a press center with full functions and imbued with a distinct sense of sci-tech and culture. We hope that our friends from Chinese and international media will take the media center as their home, together write compelling stories about Asia-Pacific cooperation and development, and feel for a true, multi-dimensional and panoramic picture of China through the window of Shenzhen," said Su Rongcai, head of the media center.

The center will host a series of official briefings and city tours during the week starting from November 14. The centerpiece is the two-day APEC Leaders' Meeting on November 18-19, which will bring together leaders from 21 Asia-Pacific economies.

2026 APEC Economic Leaders' Week media center opens in Shenzhen

Chinese Foreign Minister Wang Yi on Wednesday held positive and constructive phone talks with U.S. Secretary of State Marco Rubio.

The two sides had an in-depth exchange of views on China-U.S. relations and the interaction between the two heads of state.

During the talks, Wang, also a member of the Political Bureau of the Communist Party of China Central Committee, said that President Xi Jinping's visit to the United States in September was smooth and successful.

The two heads of state agreed to enrich the connotation of a new vision of China-U.S. relations, providing clearer strategic guidance for exploring a right approach for the two countries to get along with each other, Wang said.

The stable momentum of China-U.S. relations has not come easily and is the two major countries' rational choice based on their respective and common interests, Wang said.

China, having maintained a stable and consistent policy towards the United States, is willing to strengthen communication and cooperation with the U.S. side, properly handle differences and sensitive issues, support each other in hosting the 2026 APEC Economic Leaders' Meeting and the G20 Summit, and work to bring a constructive China-U.S. relationship of strategic stability into effect and deliver results, Wang said.

Chinese FM holds positive, constructive phone talks with Rubio on China-U.S. ties