The "China-Russia Friendship Tour: China Tour", a large-scale
media activity jointly organized by China Radio International (CRI)
and Russia's ITAR-TASS news agency, was launched in Beijing on
Friday morning.
The media delegation departed from Beijing's central Tiananmen
Square on Friday. They will travel some 8,600 kilometers before
returning to Beijing at the tour's end in late June.
Director for the State Administration of Radio, Film and
Television Wang Taihua, Director-General of CRI Wang Gengnian,
Russian Ambassador to China Sergey Razov, and other officials
attended the departure ceremony.
The China tour is part of celebrations for the "Year of China"
been held in Russia, a reciprocal event for last year's "Year of
Russia" in China.
Journalists from 12 mainstream Russian media organizations will
travel through some 15 Chinese provinces, municipalities and
autonomous regions, reporting stories about China's social
development and the cooperation between China and Russia.
The Russia tour, also organized by CRI and ITAR-TASS last year,
had more than 40 Chinese journalists participate. Over a month's
duration, the tour traveled from Beijing to Moscow carrying the
spirit of shared friendship between China and Russia.
(Xinhua News Agency May 26, 2007)
