Xinhua News Agency, St. Petersburg, June 7 (Reporter Ma Xiaocheng) In order to celebrate the 70th anniversary of the establishment of diplomatic relations between China and Russia and enhance the friendship between the two peoples, a number of large-scale cultural and people-to-people exchange activities led by the Propaganda Department of the Central Committee have been held in Russia recently, including the opening ceremony of the second season of the documentary "Here is China" co-produced by China and Russia held at the Chinese Embassy in Russia on June 3. The China-Russia Roundtable Forum on Global Governance 2019 will be held in Moscow on June 5, and the Russia 2019 Chinese Film Festival will be held in St. Petersburg on June 6. One cultural event after another has created a bond of cultural and people-to-people exchanges between our two countries, which are linked by mountains and rivers.
The 2019 China-Russia Global Governance Roundtable Forum is guided by the Information Office of The State Council of China and hosted by the China Foreign Language Administration and the Russia-China Friendship Association. The theme of the forum is "Global Governance Reform and China-Russia Comprehensive Strategic Coordination", and nearly 150 guests from the political circles, think tanks, media and other fields of China and Russia have in-depth discussions on the theme. Think tanks of the two countries should conduct forward-looking, strategic and policy studies on major theoretical and practical issues in China-Russia relations in the new era, build more consensus for promoting China-Russia comprehensive strategic partnership of coordination in the new era, lay a more solid public support for China-Russia friendship from generation to generation, and contribute wisdom and strength to the reform of the global governance system.
The second season of "Here is China", co-produced by Beijing Zhongyi Yayun Cultural Communication Center and Russia's RT TV station, focuses on China's economic and social development ach