Year-ender: 10 major BRI events in 2019

BRI news network established

On April 23, the first council meeting of the Belt and Road News Network (BRNN) was held in Beijing.

"We are glad to see that media has played positive and constructive roles in the process of building the Belt and Road partnership network after the initiative was proposed," President Xi Jinping said in the congratulatory letter he sent to the meeting.

In total, 40 mainstream media organizations from 25 countries in Asia, Africa, Europe and Latin America participated in the meeting. So far, 182 media organizations from 86 countries around the world have joined the network. The Chinese newspaper People's Daily serves as council chair.