On Aug 31 good news came from the 12th National City New Media Innovation & Development Summit 2019 that www.xnnews.com.cn won five awards, including “top 10 national local convergence media development construction model centers”.

The 12th National City New Media Innovation & Development Summit 2019 was held in Yantai, Shandong province on Aug 28-31. This summit is themed by “Media opportunity and trend in 5G era”, on which about 250 chief editors, heads, experts and scholars from over 100 local major media gathered to exchange the views on the development trend and management experience of convergence media.

The summit held the award ceremony of “celebrating the 70th anniversary of the founding of new China, seeking national local convergence media models” competition. www.xnnews.com.cn titled “top 10 national local convergence media development construction model centers”; a new media work, “A Xianning girl has being lost track of her natural parents for over 20 years, but she appears 9000 km away…” won the first prize of 2019 Innovation Competition News Work Contest; the thesis “Local features in convergence media construction—preliminary study on Xianning Party and government official websites cluster construction” and “Problem and suggestion on building all-media communication pattern by prefecture-level newspapers” won the first prize and the third prize respectively; and Zhu Fengjin, person in charge of www.xnnews.com.cn, was awarded the honorable title of top 10 innovation elites of 2019 Innovation Competition.

Some well-known internet experts and scholars, such as Zheng Haitao, a doctoral advisor of Tsinghua University, Zhang Guanghui, director of Radio & TV and Marketing and Media Asset Solution of Huawei Corp., lectured on deep media integration in 5G era, internet development trend, prediction on media-enterprise cooperation development trend, and etc.

This summit is hosted by China Local News Network Alliance, Propaganda Department of Yantai Municipal Party Committee, and Cyberspace Administration of Yantai Municipal Party Committee, and organized by Yantai Daily Media Group, Aokai Media and www.shm.com.cn.