Haiwai.com, June 8 According to the Chinese Embassy in Cote d'Ivoire, on June 3, the morning post of fraternity reprinted a commentary article by French radio international, which misinterpreted China's efforts to strengthen and improve international communication. In this regard, the Embassy in Cote d'Ivoire Journalism The spokesman issued a statement to refute it. The statement was published in the Bo Ai morning post on July 7
The Chinese Embassy in Cote d'Ivoire noted that on June 3, fraternity Morning Post reprinted a commentary article on China's hope to improve the country's image issued by radio Internationale. This paper, based on subjective assumptions, misinterprets the reasons and purposes of China's efforts to strengthen and improve international communication. Therefore, on behalf of the Chinese Embassy in Cote d'Ivoire, I would like to make the following statement:
The reason for China to strengthen and improve its international communication work is not "China's unprecedented isolation in the international arena", but that the current international public opinion is dominated by the West on the whole and is full of lies and false news about China. China needs to straighten out its roots and correct its audio-visual.
Some western media are used to wearing colored glasses and hostility towards developing countries, including China. They even ignore the facts and wantonly discredit China and slander China by fabricating lies and fabricating false evidence, which violate the professional ethics of media practitioners.
Taking the Xinjiang issue as an example, the BBC and other media concocted and disseminated a large number of false information. They called the education and training center set up by the Chinese government to save the ordinary people who were eroded by religious extremist thoughts and provide them with job skills training as "concentration camp". Without any reliable evidence, they accused China of "genocide".
In fact, from 2010 to 2018, the Uygur population in Xinjiang increased from 10.17 million to 12.71 million, an increase of 25%, significantly higher than the 14% increase of the population of all ethnic groups in Xinjiang. For such rumors and slanders, of course, China must resolutely fight back to safeguard China's sovereignty, dignity and image.
False news is very harmful. Recent leave concerning the ill treatment of Ivorians in Niger video It's heartbreaking to trigger serious violence. Of course, the behavior of producing and spreading false news should be like treating street mice.
The purpose of strengthening and improving China's international communication work is not to "beautify the national image", but to show a real, three-dimensional and comprehensive China.
China is a large developing country with a land area of more than 9.6 million square kilometers and a population of more than 1.4 billion. The regional and urban-rural development is not balanced. Many foreign friends' understanding of China is not comprehensive and accurate. For example, some friends who have only been to Beijing, Shanghai, Guangzhou and other big cities in China think that China is already a developed country. However, we just completed the historic task of lifting 100 million rural people out of absolute poverty in eight years last year, and great efforts still need to be made to achieve rural revitalization. On the other hand, some friends have never been to China, and their understanding of China's political, economic, social and cultural development even stayed in the period before China's reform and opening up more than 40 years ago.
Therefore, China needs to make great efforts to strengthen and improve its international communication work and introduce China to the international community in a comprehensive, multi angle and multi-level way. The ultimate purpose of this is to better promote mutual understanding between China and the people of other countries in the world, strengthen friendly cooperation with other countries, and make greater contributions to the construction of a community with a shared future for mankind.