BEIJING , Sept. 16, 2025 /PRNewswire/ -- The 2025 Media Cooperation Forum on Belt and Road, which focuses on the role of media in fostering consensus and gathers collective strengths to promote high-quality Belt and Road Initiative (BRI) cooperation, opened in Kunming, Southwest China's Yunnan Province on Tuesday. More than 200 foreign representatives from 87 countries, as well as international and regional organizations, and 165 media outlets and institutions, attended the forum.
Participants highlighted the significant achievements of the BRI since its proposal by Chinese President Xi Jinping in 2013, recognizing it as a widely embraced global public good and platform for international cooperation. They noted that the recent Global Governance Initiative (GGI) proposed by Presi