A collaboration accord was signed
in Rome Friday between Italy's biggest news agency ANSA and
China's largest multimedia group, the Xinhua news agency.
The accord was signed on the margins of Chinese President Xi
Jinping's visit to Rome and envisages collaboration between the
two agencies for the diffusion in Italy of an Italian-language
Xinhua news service.
The Xinhua Italian Service will be distributed exclusively by
ANSA via its news platforms and will be clearly identified and
separate from ANSA's production; Italian businesses and
institutions will be able to buy the news service individually.
ANSA will be able to use for its own news services content
deemed of interest to its clients, selected from the Xinhua
Italian Service.
This Accord constitutes a further development of the
agreement signed in 2017 between ANSA and Xinhua, which
envisaged the exchange of their respective news services,
together with collaboration on the production of content.
With this collaboration ANSA's network of international
partnerships is further enriched, which includes, among others,
the Associated Press, EPA, DPA, EFE, Deutsche Welle, France
Media Monde, Kyodo, Telam, Yonhap and Bloomberg.
ANSA Managing Director Stefano De Alessandri voiced his
satisfaction with the accord.
"Today's signing defines the framework for a fundamental
strategic collaboration, which will enable Italian businesses
and institutions to have a broad and systematic information
panorama on China: a fully fledged window open on the Chinese
system and on the business opportunities connected to it. We are
sure that this collaboration will constitute a fundamental boost
for the development of Italian exports and the
internationalisation of our productive system".
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