China's Xi urges young, new media workers to lead rejuvenation of nation


  • World
  • Thursday, 21 May 2015

Chinese President Xi Jinping awaits the arrival of US Secretary of State John Kerry for a meeting at the Great Hall of the People in Beijing, China, May 17, 2015. REUTERS/Saul Loeb/Pool

BEIJING (Reuters) - Chinese President Xi Jinping has urged the younger generation and new media professionals to join the government in an intensified push to achieve China's dream of "national rejuvenation".

In a speech to the United Front Work Department late on Wednesday, Xi said that the government would seek to improve the work of new media professionals, who should form a "patriotic united front" and encouraged them to contribute in "cleaning up cyberspace", state news agency Xinhua said.

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