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Hunan Provincial Authorities Provide Film & Media Training to 65 Journalists From Across Francophone Africa

by Eric Olander

Media companies and government officials from China’s central Hunan province are in the midst of a two-week training program for French-speaking journalists from across Africa, including 20 from the Democratic Republic of the Congo and others from Senegal, Cameroon, and Gabon among other countries.

The online trainings are organized by Hunan’s Institute of Foreign Trade and are ostensibly intended to introduce the Chinese media market to participants in the hope of enhancing media trade and co-productions.

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