A "professional batman" for a China story teller — China and me, five years from now

Updated: Aug 9, 2021 By Ren Chuan Gong Print

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I have started telling China stories since 1996. I came to Sydney, Australia in 1996 to study for a Master's degree in "International Communication" and later for a doctorate in "Cross-Cultural Communication" related fields. I worked as a Mandarin Program Anchor at Australian 2CR China Radio Network in Sydney until 2010. In 2005, my friends and I founded the Australian Chinese newspaper named New Marketing Weekly in Sydney, I have been the editor-in-chief. For 18 years now, I have been writing articles for The Editor-in-Chief's Column to tell China stories. In 2006, I founded AUS-CHINA TV MEDIA (ACTV)in Sydney and served as its chairman ever since. I have opened various columns to promote China Stories to the world. At present, we have established long-term business relations with the overseas edition of People's Daily and its overseas network, China News Service, CCTV, Phoenix TV and many overseas Chinese media around the world. Every day, dozens of news reports related to "China Story" are reported and pushed to the world, which has been known by compatriots in many countries and regions around the world.

Since invited working for the College of Literature and School of Journalism, Communication of Jilin University in 2010, I have been constantly combining my teaching and research with "The China Story Telling" including the international communication of Chinese culture, and international promotion for Chinese cultural soft power. For more than 20 years, even the "COVID-19" could not stop me from actively visiting various places as a reporter in China. At present, I have almost traveled all over the country and sent the vivid "China Story" reports to the world through the newspaper founded with my friend overseas and the overseas network new media. Therefore, China News Service reporter made an interview with me in 2019 under the title of "Ren Chuangong: A 'Professional Batman' for a China Story Teller", a more comprehensive introduction for me. The detailed reports related can be found on Baidu.

"The 14th Five-Year Plan" mentioned as: prosperity and development of cultural undertakings and cultural industry, improve the country's cultural soft power and the development of cultural industry; On May 31, 2021, when presiding over the 30th group study session of the Political Bureau of the 19th CPC Central Committee, Xi Jinping, the General Secretary, stressed that telling China's story well, spreading China's voice well, and showing a true, three-dimensional and comprehensive China are important tasks for strengthening China's international communication capacity. Since the 18th CPC National Congress, General Secretary Xi Jinping has attached great importance to the building of China's international communication capacity and made a series of important statements. (June 3, 2021 by People's Daily Overseas Online)

I will make all the efforts and seize the precious time to make due contributions to the realization of the Chinese Dream of the great rejuvenation through telling the vivid China stories to the world on my previous bases.

Huang Danian and I.
Mr. Huang Danian was one of my best friends. As an oversea returnee, he came from the UK to serve for Jilin University one year earlier than me. He is the president of the European and American Student Union and the Overseas Student Association of Jilin University. I mainly participated in hosting all the annual meetings organized by him and the others before his death.

Invited to the National Day reception.
In view of having told about China stories to the world for over 20 years, I was invited to attend the reception for the 71st anniversary of the founding of the New China in the people's Great Hall of in 2020.

My latest Editor-in-Chief's Column. I have constantly written articles to tell China Stories to the world for 18 years.

I have founded the ACTV Omnimedia in Sydney for 15 years, mainly introducing China to the World. Please see the website: www.auschinatvmedia.com if you are interested in it.

I once worked as the teacher of the course of "Media and Public Diplomacy" for the international students of the Master's degree at the School of Public Diplomacy, Jilin University.

I have won the First Prize of the Excellent Thesis regarding the field studies of One Belt and One Road, the Global China Stories Telling, and etc. in The Global Chinese Media Forum twice hosted by the Overseas Chinese Affairs Office of the State Council and China News Service both in 2017 and 2019.

Invited to speak in Zhangjiakou in 2019 to introduce the 2022 Beijing Winter Olympics to the world.

Invited to make a keynote speech during the visit to Chengdu in 2019.

Published the relative book by Hong Kong News Press with 350 Chinese characters in Dec. 2020.

In 2011, invited to visit Hainan province

My name is Ren Chuangong (James Ren), now working as a foreign professor from Australia in the College of Humanities and School of Journalism and Communication, Jilin University. I have been telling the true & vivid stories to the world for more than 20 years or nearly 30 years.

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