Media's crucial role in promoting ties takes center stage

Chinese and South African officials called for more enhanced media cooperation between China and Africa to have a bigger voice in the world and create "win-win" development for both sides.

They made the appeal on Tuesday at the China-Africa Media Summit in Cape Town, South Africa.

President Xi Jinping and his South African counterpart, Jacob Zuma, both sent congratulatory messages to the event, a lead-up to the Forum on China-Africa Cooperation Summit.