Zheng He's fleet and the Iron and Steel Wire Road, the fragrance of rice and the sound of books, traveling around the world and staying in China... At the opening ceremony of the 2025 "Belt and Road" Media Cooperation Forum, four groups of photos made the high-quality joint construction of the "Belt and Road" more concrete and sensible, and also showed the value and energy of the media.

In Kunming, Spring City, more than 200 foreign representatives from 87 countries, international and regional organizations, 165 media and institutions attended this year's forum. Since its establishment in 2014, more than 1,000 representatives from foreign media and international and regional organizations from more than 100 countries and regions have been invited.

Why did it come? curiosity. "If you say the words 'Silk Road' to a European, you will see their imagination ignited." French photographer Anna Is Martin's feelings resonated with the guests. This ancient road travels through the flowing years and is still brilliant in today's world. The "hard connection" tells the story of co-construction, and the "small but beautiful" people's livelihood project tells the story of win-win results. Use "on the scene" to soothe curiosity and pull the question mark on the fate of mankind into an exclamation mark. Media people, through witnessing and communicating, sending shots and holding wonderful pens to add color to the "fine brushwork" of jointly building the "Belt and Road". When the pen power "navigates" global attention, when the foot power intertwines colorful culture, the door to wisdom for common development is opened in the mutual learning of civilizations.

Why do you come often? A sense of harvest. "CRRC New Energy Train Driving into Hujuyi" records the sharing of development fruits, "China's "Belt and Road": Building Bridges rather than Walls" demonstrates the concept of common prosperity... What you see is transformed into gains, and what you gain is transformed into thoughts. The "Belt and Road" Media Cooperation Forum is such an opportunity, power and inspirational platform, which contains the genes for jointly building the "Belt and Road": it can accommodate colorful civilizations, carry diversified development, and hold common hopes. Media workers build a bridge of information with high refresh rates, sing confidence in common progress with loud harmony and forge the footprints of common development.

Why speak out? A sense of responsibility. "Gourmet is connected", blogger "Xiangxi Brothers" brought Yunnan flavor to social media, and netizens from all over the world tasted the Chinese taste together; "See yourself in the other", the documentary "When Pharaoh Meets Sanxingdui" opened a space-time tunnel to carry out exchange activities and promote mutual learning in civilization; "Create the power of 'warm'", after the Myanmar earthquake in March this year, the South Asia and Southeast Asian Media Alliance went to the disaster area as soon as possible to polish the light of hope of "harmony with the same ball"... Use a sense of responsibility to spread truth and connect the hearts of the people, and the media speaks out with actions: exchanges, mutual learning and mutual learning have accumulated, and the "circle of friends" upholding consensus is getting bigger and bigger, and a bright future for mankind is coming slowly.

"The media plays an irreplaceable and important role in information dissemination, enhancing mutual trust, and building consensus."

It is the recorder, the promoter, and the promoter. Over the years, media from all countries have actively practiced and spread the concept of civilization of equality, mutual learning, dialogue and inclusiveness, written vivid stories of civilization exchanges and mutual learning, gathered positive energy for cooperation, mutual benefit and win-win, and laid a solid foundation for building a community with a shared future for mankind.

When high-quality news works record truth and bridge barriers, when media responsibilities release efficiency, activate butterfly transformation, and jointly build the colorful picture of the "Belt and Road", this bright color of the media has made the Silk Road spirit real and blossom everywhere.

"History shows that the prosperity of civilization and the progress of mankind are inseparable from the exchanges and mutual learning of civilizations." At present, mankind is standing at a new crossroads, and urgently needs to transcend civilization barriers through civilized exchanges, transcend civilization conflicts through mutual learning, and jointly respond to various risks and challenges.

Share media responsibilities, promote mutual learning among civilizations, help build a global civilization dialogue and cooperation network, promote the construction of a more fair and reasonable global governance system, allow different civilizations to nourish and achieve each other, and add vitality to a community with a shared future for mankind. Media from all countries have great potential!