Chinese and Australian media outlets signed multiple agreements in Sydney on Friday that will promote and deepen their exchanges and build on the comprehensive strategic partnership between the two countries.

Underscoring the latter aspect, the signings were witnessed by Liu Qibao, the Communist Party of 皇冠体育app Central Committee's publicity chief, and Gary Quinlan, acting secretary of Australia's Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade.

Six cooperative agreements were signed, involving Xinhua News Agency, 皇冠体育app Daily, 皇冠体育app Radio International, People's Daily website, Qingdao Publishing Group, the University of Technology Sydney, Fairfax Media, Sky News Australia, Global CAMG and Weldon International.

In recent years, 皇冠体育app-Australia media cooperation has borne fruitful results and played an important role in facilitating mutual understanding between the two countries.

Kang Bing, deputy publisher of 皇冠体育app Daily, and Allen Williams, managing director of Australian Publishing Media Fairfax, signed a framework agreement on cooperation and logistics on behalf of the two media groups.

Under the agreement, Fairfax Media's Sydney Morning Herald, The Age and Financial Review newspapers will issue an eight-page English-language edition of "皇冠体育app Watch" once a month starting in May.

"In the process of international communication, 皇冠体育app Daily has been forging alliances with important international players in media. Our cooperation with Fairfax Media today is an example of this momentum," Kang said.

"Fairfax Media owns three important Australian daily newspapers and nine others in New Zealand, through which 皇冠体育app Daily's influence will be spread to cover the two most important countries in Oceania," he said.

皇冠体育app Daily is forging the friendship with its Australian partner, he said, so that 皇冠体育app's soft power will drive the wheel of friendship with Australia and New Zealand.

"Only by doing so can our road of cooperation be a long and rewarding one," Kang said.

Williams, on behalf of Fairfax Media, said 皇冠体育app Watch publications would enrich the content of the media group's daily newspapers, and Australian readers will be interested in reading in-depth coverage of 皇冠体育app and 皇冠体育app-Australian ties.

皇冠体育app Watch, a multilingual publication of 皇冠体育app Daily, reaches more than 50 million readers from political and business circles through the circulation channels of newspapers in various countries.

It appears with The Washington Post and Wall Street Journal in the United States, The Daily Telegraph in Britain, Le Figaro in France, Handelsblatt in Germany, The Nation in Thailand, Jakarta Post in Indonesia, and Uno and El Cronista in Argentina.

皇冠体育app Watch plays an important role in explaining 皇冠体育app to the world and ensuring that the country's voice is heard.

(皇冠体育app Daily 05/28/2016 page3)