BEIJING, May 29, 2023 /PRNewswire/ -- A news report from
China Daily:
China has improved international communication through the
practice and application of modern science and technology, which
has also helped disseminate and promote the Chinese concept of
modernization globally, experts said on Saturday.
They made the remarks at Talks of Sci-tech Communication, a
series of events held by the Research Institute of International
Sci-tech Communication, which was established by the China
Association for Science and Technology and China Daily in January of last year, that brings
domestic and international communications experts together.
Guo Huadong, chairman of the Chinese Committee of the
International Science Council and an academician at the Chinese
Academy of Sciences, said the world is vigorously promoting open
science and sci-tech communication is becoming increasingly
important, and therefore every sci-tech practitioner should also be
a sci-tech communicator.
Learning to use the power of big data to achieve sustainable
development goals is an important issue for the regions involved in
the Belt and Road Initiative, as well as the world, he said. China
places great importance on scientific and technological innovation,
and in 2021, it set up the International Research Center of Big
Data for Sustainable Development Goals, to leverage sci-tech power
in achieving these goals.
The center sent seven sets of data on SDGs to the United Nations
in March, and its data analysis reports are accessible to countries
all around the world.
"I think data is the common language of humanity, and it is also
a form of knowledge dissemination. At the same time, we need to let
data generate productivity and turn it into information and
knowledge," he said.
Liu Shouxun, vice-president of the Communication University of
China, said that the first thing that needs to be done to promote
Chinese modernization through international communication is to
tell China's stories well.
"There are different versions of China's stories. The strength
of developed Western nations means their perspective of China has
long dominated the international stage, arrogating the right to
define the Chinese story in terms of international public opinion,"
Liu said. "The competition between this version and China's version
of its story is the first problem that needs to be resolved through
the development of international communications. We need more
concepts similar to Chinese modernization, which will not only
spread, but also be understood by the world."
Liu said China's international communications should not be
limited to the first-level discipline of news communications, but
should draw upon philosophy, sociology, politics, literature and
many other disciplines.
Strong knowledge production capacity will enable Chinese
communicators to generalize and clearly explain concepts related to
China, such as Chinese modernization and its connotations, and then
reappropriate the right to speak about and define China's image in
international communications, he said.
Hu Zhengrong, director of the Institute of Journalism and
Communication at the Chinese Academy of Social Sciences, said that
the sci-tech story is a part of China's story and is significant in
showing the world a reliable, admirable and respectable image of
the country.
Sci-tech and communication are mutually empowered, Hu said,
adding that science and technology have empowered communication in
fields such as production, circulation and consumption, while
communication improves the ability and level of sci-tech
exchange.
Behind the story of science and technology are the common
pursuit and values of humankind. The values behind China's sci-tech
stories are universal and appeal to international readers, he
said.
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