MONROVIA – The 2019 edition of the China Africa Press Center program has opened in Beijing China with a challenge to African Journalists to help erase any myth about china and report the true story about the People’s Republic of China and its people. Report By Francis Pelenah, Jr in Beijing, ChinaUnder the China Africa Press Center program, thirty four (34) African journalists have assembled in Beijing China for a ten month study in the People’s Republic sponsored by the China Public Diplomacy Association under the Ministry of Foreign Affairs. The thirty African Journalists have also being joined by sixteen (16) other journalists from Asia and the South Pacific under the China Asia Pacific Press Center program. Speaking Wednesday at the joint opening of the China Africa and Asia Pacific Press Center program in Beijing, the Vice President of the China Public Diplomacy Association Hu Zheng Yue described China as a brother and partner to African countries. CAPC has now entered its fifth year while this is the third year that journalists from the Asia Pacific are joining the program.

Source: Front Page Africa February 28, 2019 01:50 UTC