On Nov. 4, VNA’s General Director Huong and Xinhua President Li heldtalks on measures to boost bilateral cooperation, especially indeveloping new types of communication in the future.
Xinhua President Li introduced the guests to his agency’s operationmodel and restructuring projects to meet information demands in the newsituation.
VNA General Secretary Huong highly appreciated past cooperation betweenthe two news agencies and expressed his wish that those relations wouldbe strengthened, in order to contribute to boosting the comprehensivestrategic cooperative partnership between the two countries in thespirit of agreements reached by two countries’ leaders.
The two sides agreed to organise photo exhibitions to mark the 60thanniversary of diplomatic ties between the two countries in early 2010in Hanoi and Beijing and agreed in principle the signing of newcooperation agreement between VNA and Xinhua as well as the expansionof cooperation between the two news agencies in multimedia along withtraditional information fields.
The same day, the VNA leader was received by Deputy Director of theState Council Information Office Wang Guoqing, who hailed the resultsof talks between VNA and Xinhua. He affirmed the importance of the roleof the two news agencies in the press systems on each side and theircontribution to deepening comprehensive cooperation between the twocountries.
Earlier, the VNA delegation visited Xinhuanet centre, and some othercentres in Xinhua. They also had working sessions in Shanghai andHangzhou in Zhejiang province./.