A center of the All-China Journalists Association and a Gansu Province media center at the Belarusian Union of Journalists have opened in Minsk, BelTA has learned.

The representative office will operate at the Minsk-Novosti news agency. The parties signed an agreement on experience exchange and cooperation. There are plans for exchange visits, internships and other forms of cooperation.

The event was attended by Belarus' First Deputy Information Minister Andrei Kuntsevich. "Today we are actively cooperating at the level of specific media structures. We've concluded agreements on the exchange of experience, on the exchange of content. We discussed a number of areas, a number of specific projects that, in our opinion, can be implemented in the near future. Undoubtedly, it is specific close contacts at the media level that contribute to the development of interstate relations between our states in general," he said.

The head of the Gansu Province print media association Wang Guangqing, stressed that the signing ceremony was a good start for strengthening cooperation between Gansu Province and the Republic of Belarus. "The peoples of the two countries are learning more about each other. Also, the interaction between the media will help further partnership in other areas," he said.

Andrei Krivosheyev, Chairman of the Board of the Belarusian Union of Journalists, recalled that a year ago the union entered into a large-scale strategic agreement with the Chinese Journalists Association which unites more than a million colleagues in all provinces of China. "But even then it was noted that without direct agreements between regional and major national media of China and Belarus, this agreement would not be entirely effective. Our largest media are already working to draft direct agreements and direct contracts," he said.

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