ASEAN-China Media Week Opens in Guangxi

The 2024 ASEAN Partner Media Cooperation Week opened in southern city of Guilin on Friday, gathering some 200 government officials, media professionals and scholars from China and ASEAN countries to explore media's role in strengthening regional cooperation.

Co-sponsored by China Media Group (CMG) and the government of Guangxi Zhuang Autonomous Region, the event featured in-depth exchanges on the opening day revolving its theme "New Quality, Coexistence, Civilization."

The opening event launched the ASEAN Media Partners "China Up Close" Guangxi Tour, which involves journalists from mainstream media outlets of seven ASEAN countries teaming up with CMG and local media reporter to conduct in-depth reporting on Guangxi's high-quality development and tell stories of China's modernization to the world. A series of the latest achievements in CMG's cooperation with Guangxi were released at the opening event. CMG also launched a documentary on the Pinglu Canal, a part of China's new western land-sea corridor, and released the documentary Sweet Guangxi which takes the audience on a vivid journey to the colorful autonomous region.

The China-ASEAN Media Complex "Ethereal Sound ASEAN Audio Vivid," a new audio platform to promote China-ASEAN cultural exchange backed by CMG's technology, also opened on Friday.

ASEAN-China Media Week Opens in Guangxi

The second black box has been found at the plane crash site near Aktau and handed over to the investigation department, according to a Kazakh official from transport department on Thursday.

The Embraer 190 aircraft operated by Azerbaijan Airlines flight J2-8243 from Baku to Grozny crashed near Aktau Airport in Kazakhstan on Wednesday.

Of all the 67 people on board, 38 were killed in the crash, and 29 survivors including two children were pulled from the wreckage, Kazakh authorities said on Wednesday.

According to the official, interviews have been carried out with victims, ground service workers and all witnesses to this incident. Radio communication recordings between the crew and dispatchers have been retrieved, and the investigation of the crash site, covering more than 4,000 square meters, is underway.

Kazakhstan's Deputy Prime Minister Kanat Bozumbayev said on Thursday during a press conference that the cause of the plane crash remains unknown and is still under investigation.

Bozumbayev said that Kazakhstan is in contact with the relevant departments from Azerbaijan. He said Kazakhstan does not have an official version of the accident, and neither Russia nor Azerbaijan has provided one.

Second black box found at plane crash site near Aktau: Kazakh official