More than 140 journalists from over 80 news agencies
and units will go to 12 provinces in the west for investigation and reports. They attended
the initiating ceremony held on May 13 in Beijing.
Reporters who will go to Inner Mongalia, Shaanxi, Qinghai expressed their wishes that they
will, grasping this golden opportunity, devote themselves to the work with great
enthusiasm and down-to-earth working attitude in order to fulfill their task in the west,
thereby tempering themselves for an enhancement in the work.
Shao Huaze, Chairman of All-China Journalists Association said at the ceremony, to
implement development in the west is a decision of great significance facing the new
century, a strategic adjustment in China's economic structure. It is conducted under the
leadership of the Communist Party with Jiang
Zemin at the core and in line with the strategic conception for China's modernization
construction put forward by Deng Xiaoping. It proves to be an objective need for
expediting the development of regional economy, for expanding domestic demands and for a
continuous, speedy and healthy development of the national economy. It is also of
important significance for enhancing the national unity, social stability and safety in
frontier areas as well as a necessary task for a common prosperity by reducing gaps
between various regions,
With the blazing torch taken over by Fan Zeshun from the hands of Chairman Shao, Zheng
Mengxiong, vice chairman of the All-China Journalists Association, Yuan Zhifa, associate
editor in chief of People's
Daily, Zhai Huisheng, deputy editor of Guangming Daily, Zhang Xinxin, deputy editor of
China News Agency also handed flags inscribed with "hundred Journalists to the
West" into the hands of various groups of journalists. |
