TEHRAN (FNA)- Senior media officials of Iran and
China emphasized the need for both Tehran and Beijing to stretch new
horizons and open new chapters to expand cultural cooperation,
announcing a joint radio station is scheduled to be established by the
two countries' relevant bodies in the near future.
In a meeting between Deputy Head of the Islamic Republic of Iran
Broadcasting (IRIB) Hossein Soufi and his counterpart from China Radio
International (CRI) in Tehran on Wednesday, the officials singed a
letter of understanding on launching a joint radio station by the two
capitals.
The document was signed in a ceremony during which Soufi said Iranian
and Chinese media officials are determined to promote bilateral
cooperation given the two countries' cultural and historical
commonalties.
He hoped that the joint radio station would help confront the West's media propaganda.
Trade between Iran and China in the past year was estimated at $45bln.
Iran is currently China's third largest supplier of crude, providing
Beijing with roughly 12 percent of its total annual oil consumption.
According to the figures released by China's General Administration of
Customs in January, China's crude oil imports from Iran reached 2.5mln
tons (mt) in December 2012, up 43 percent from November.
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