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Agency on the occasion of Xinhua’s 80th anniversary.
“It is with great joy that the Government, through the Ministry of Media, Information and Publicity congratulates Xinhua News Agency on the occasion of your 80th anniversary and offer our best wishes to you on this momentous occasion,” Minister Shamu said in a statement.
Minister Shamu said the Government and people of Zimbabwe “sincerely congratulate Xinhua for the great strides you have made since your establishment as the Red China News Agency of the
Communist Party of China in Jiangxi Province on November 7, 1931 during China’s liberation struggle.
“Today, we are extremely proud that Xinhua has grown into a global news agency with about 200 bureaux in many countries and regions around the world.”
Minister Shamu said over the past 80 years, Xinhua made positive contributions towards conveying the true image of not only China but other countries of the South like Zimbabwe.
This contributed to the promotion of friendship and co-operation between the Government and the People’s Republic of China.
“It is only through the efforts, assistance and commitment of progressive media institutions like Xinhua that the people of the South have renewed hope to achieve a balanced flow of news and information between the North and the South and within the South,” said Minister Shamu.
He said Zimbabwe cherished the “co-operation in the fields of news and information” and looked forward to a future of deeper co-operation with hope and commitment.
Xinhua News Agency started news reporting with a single telegraph transmitter captured from the hands of its enemy.
It was the earliest media house in the history of the Chinese Communist Party that could send to the outside world the voices of poor Chinese people suppressed by the imperialists and capitalists.
After the liberation in 1949, it was renamed New China (Xinhua) News Agency. The Xinhua bureau in Harare was set up in 1980 when Zimbabwe attained Independence.
Xinhua has more than 50 institutional subscribers in Zimbabwe, including local newspapers and government agencies.
It employs nearly 10 000 news reporters and editors as well as business, management and technical support personnel globally.
Xinhua is the largest news and information collecting and distribution centre in China and also a world-class news agency that releases news, non-stop in Chinese, English, French, Spanish, Russian, Arabic and Portuguese.
The reports can be seen not only in Chinese newspapers, but on world famous media such as AP, Reuters, AFP, DPA, New York Times, and BBC sites.
Xinhua broadcasts written, graphic, tabular and web news and audio-video programmes to more than 200 000 subscribers in China and abroad through satellite, wireless, the Internet and dedicated lines and other modern telecom means.
Each day, it releases news of up to 1 000 general news stories and 500 news photos.
It also provides audio-video programmes to about 300 TV stations and feature stories to domestic and foreign subscribers.
It has its own newspaper and magazines in China such as the famous Xinhua Daily Telegraph, Outlook Weekly, Global Weekly and Economic Information.
Xinhuanet, the online news service of Xinhua News Agency which was launched in 1997 is one of the world’s largest news networks.
Meanwhile, a Chinese Delegation headed by Mr Liu Yunshan, a member of Political Bureau of the Chinese Communist Party Central Committee and the head of Publicity Department of the CPC Central
Committee is in Zimbabwe and will join Zimbabweans in celebrating Xinhua News Agency’s 80th anniversary.
The delegation, which came at the invitation of Zanu-PF will be in the country for five days, from November 12 to 16.
Mr Liu is expected to hold meetings with Zanu-PF national chairman Cde Simon Khaya Moyo and Cde Shamu.
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