State-owned China Media Group (CMG), the nation’s major broadcaster, launched its Asia-Pacific branch and the sub-branches of the Hong Kong and Macau special administrative regions yesterday in the two cities via "cloud links."
CMG President Shen Haixiong, vice-minister of the Publicity Department of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of China (CPC), said at the launch ceremony in Macau that China Media Group,relying on its Asia-Pacific branch, would serve as a bridge linking China and its Asia-Pacific neighbors, and the Asia-Pacific region and the world at large.
The broadcaster headquartered in Beijing would take full advantage of the unique features of Hong Kong and Macau, where Eastern and Western civilizations blend,to cover exchanges and mutual learning between civilizations, of multilateralism and free trade, and of pursuing common prosperity and development by different countries and regions, he said.
CMG yesterday also launched the shooting of a 4K ultra high-definition documentary film aiming to record the rich culinary culture of Macau, a UNESCO-designated Creative City of Gastronomy.
Inaugurated in April 2018 as part of the central government's wide-ranging institutional reshuffle, CMG is a broadcasting platform made up of China Central Television (CCTV), China National Radio (CNR) and China Radio International (CRI).
Several senior local government officials, community leaders and central government officials posted to Macau attended Saturday’s ceremony such as Macau’s first chief executive Edmund Ho Hau Wah, vice-chairman of the National Committee of the Chinese People’s Political Consultative Conference(CPPCC).
- Xinhua, MPD
