Chinese Ambassador to Fiji Chen Haiping Visits Fiji Broadcasting Corporation and Fiji Sun

On 5 and 6 November, Chinese Ambassador to Fiji Chen Haiping respectively visited Fiji’s largest media organization Fiji Broadcasting Corporation (FBC), and Fiji’s largest newspaper publisher Fiji Sun, and met with Mr. Tarun Patel, CEO of FBC, Mr. Cecil Browne, Board Director of FBC, and Ms. Rosi Doviverata, acting CEO of Fiji Sun.

Ambassador Chen visited the radio and TV studios, and the newspaper organization, held friendly talks with the journalists, editors and anchors, and praised both FBC and Fiji Sun’s active cooperation with Chinese media in presenting China to the Fijian people. Chen introduced the core ideas of the Fifth Plenary Session of the 20th Central Committee of the Communist Party of China, and elaborated on the historical context of the Taiwan question and China’s stance. He hoped that Fijian media organizations would continue adhering to the principles of being truthful and objective in reporting China-related news, and upholding the one-China principle, to further enhance mutual understanding and trust between the two peoples.

Mr. Patel and Ms. Doviverata commended the long-standing Fiji-China friendship, and expressed the readiness to serve as a bridge linking the two peoples, pledging to deepen cooperation with the Embassy to bolster bilateral friendship.