CICG CEA Launches Jungar Training Base for Communication

The Jungar Training Base for Communication of the CICG Center for Europe and Africa (China Today) was officially unveiled on Oct. 16. It is the first training base of its kind that the CICG Center for Europe and Africa has set up.

Zhang Juan, deputy editor-in-chief of China Today and Han Yan, member of the Standing Committee of the Jungar Banner Party Committee and head of the region’s publicity department, jointly launched the training base and each delivered a speech. French journalist Chevestrier Margot also gave a speech about her unforgettable trip to Jungar.

China Today magazine, founded in 1952 by Soong Ching-ling, is a state media run by the CICG Center for Europe and Africa. It presents international readers with authentic stories of modern China. The center publishes nine printed and ten digital versions of the magazine China Today (in English, French, German, Arabic, Turkish and Chinese), CHINAFRICA (English and French), Dialogue Chine-France (French), and Potala (Tibetan). It has also opened over a dozen accounts in multiple languages on overseas social media platforms. In recent years. The center has launched micro-video programs such as China Today, Experience China and Observing China from the Middle East, etc.

In her speech, Zhang said, “Jungar Banner is a place that attracts your attention the moment you lay your eyes on it. Here, water from the Yellow River changes from muddy to clear, rice and fish coexist in saline alkali soil, and apples are planted on soft sandstone. Besides this, local mines are empowered by 5G technology, new energy becomes a new engine for green development, and comprehensive communication is effective.”

She continued by describing how the phrase “once thriving on coal, the region has now taken a big step on the new industrialization process” has also changed people’s stereotypes of this coal city. “The city strives to practice high-quality development supported by high-quality ecological environment, and is exploring the Chinese path to modernization through its own development practice. This is exactly the new story of China that we want to tell the world, and this place will be a ‘rich mine’ for our international communications,” she said.

The launching of the base is another innovative measure taken after the launching of the Jungar Banner Integration Center, marking the opening of the door for the banner to tell its stories on the international stage.

Han hopes that both sides could engage in more in-depth exchanges in platform construction, technical support and talent cultivation to promote international communication cooperation. She hopes that Jungar’s stories will be told on a bigger stage so that more people from other countries can learn about it.