On 27 November, Shan Chengbiao, general manager of the Huanqiu Network portal, explained the two traits of Huanqiu Network – people-centricity and global outlook – at the Culture, Education, and Tourism Development Forum of the Asia Youth Leaders Forum 2021.

The full speech is as below.

As you may know, Huanqiu Network is a news website supervised by the People's Daily. It is founded by People's Daily Online and Global Times. The network is characterized by people-centricity and a global outlook. People-centricity means that it is for the people. A global outlook means that it covers global news. I'm very happy to attend the Asia Youth Leaders Forum today. Connecting China with the rest of the world is indeed our major mission. Belt and Road and Asia are both keywords on our radar.

I still remember the video remarks this morning by Gloria Macapagal Arroyo, former president of the Philippines. At the end of July 2019, with the support of the China Public Diplomacy Association, we held a Belt and Road China-Philippines Forum on People-to-People Exchange and Economic Cooperation in Manila. That was the first international conference focusing on the Belt and Road Initiative (BRI) in the Philippines. Former President Arroyo attended the forum and gave a passionate speech. It was the first time that a Philippine dignitary had made a clear and positive response to BRI. Her response, in addition to her acceptance of our mascots Huanhuan and Qiuqiu, became important stories. That was in 2019. Besides, a series of international activities we organized in major cities in Malaysia, Kazakhstan, and other major Asian countries and BRI countries also became important sources of news and hot topics. 

On the other hand, it is worth noting that, since we have built up our brand with years of effort, domestic and overseas Web users provide us with various news clues. Just a few days ago, a well-known international media organization posted a piece of news on Twitter, but they posted an inappropriate photo. We covered this instantly on our website and social media. It was then reposted by Twitter users and became viral. This well-known international media organization had to delete the tweet. After they deleted it, we didn't think it was enough, because they owed us an apology. Then we posted a second tweet that they had deleted the tweet without an apology. Later on, the spokesperson of this media organization emailed our English news editor, apologizing to Global Times, Huanqiu Network, and Web users on behalf of their organization. We then posted this email. Every one of these posts got more than 100,000 impressions. This happened just last week.

We welcome your attention. We will spare no effort to spread such positive, quality news.