Foreign journalists impressed by China's "development miracles"

"The Chinese government and people are realizing their dreams through commitment, hard work and excellent leadership and China is making miracles and showing them to the world," Mohamed Osman Abdi, a journalist from the Somali National News Agency, said at the joint closing ceremony of the China Africa Press Center and the China Asia Pacific Press Center Program 2019 Wednesday.

The program was guided by the Ministry of Foreign Affairs and hosted by the China Public Diplomacy Association.

"The 2019 Media Exchange Program was very useful for us to understand and explore China better and know more about the reality on the ground. My friends from the China-Africa Press Center conveyed messages about China and the productive friendship and cooperation between Africa and China to their respective countries with their pens and cameras," Abdi said.

After visiting more than 10 provincial-level regions in China including Shanxi and Hunan, Abdi and his fellow participants were impressed by the country's amazing achievements and ongoing development projects.

"China is not only developing by itself, it is taking the lion's share of the development of other countries in the world, for example, the Belt and Road Initiative proposed in 2013 to improve connectivity and cooperation on a transcontinental scale has created fruitful results so far," he said.