Shenzhen Daily launches multilingual products on its new media platforms today to mark the 100th anniversary of the founding of the Communist Party of China (CPC) and 24th anniversary of the English-language newspaper.
Articles in French, Russian, Spanish, Thai and Polish, written by expats in Shenzhen, are published on the Daily's app, website www.eyeshenzhen.com and social media accounts.
By reading the articles, readers can be transported to many worlds. They can enter the world of animals through the photos of Isaac Cohen, a Colombian middle school science teacher. He was impressed with the city's biological diversity and spent years photographing it.
They can also share the colorful daily life of Alejandro Vázquez Torronteras, a Spanish teacher at Shenzhen University who has adapted to this fast-growing migrant city. Or they can get immersed in the unique and inclusive food and cultural experiences of Sandra Vivier, who engages in French language education.
In the Thai language, Sae-Wang Phurin, a university student living in Shenzhen for three years, congratulated the CPC on its centennial and expressed his amazement over the city's public transport and use of cashless payment.
Meanwhile, a short video of Shenzhen Polytechnic students, who sent their best wishes to the CPC's centennial in eight languages, including English, French, German, Arabic, Japanese, Korean and Russian, has been released on Shenzhen Daily's app and multiple social media accounts.
"During initial trials, the multilingual service will be presented in five languages including Russian, Polish, French, Spanish and Thai in text and visual forms," Dong Haitao, editor-in-chief of Shenzhen Daily, said yesterday.
"This is a platform open to contributions from Chinese and expat readers. The service will be expanded to cover more languages to meet the demand of readers in the Guangdong-Hong Kong-Macao Greater Bay Area," he said.
The introduction of the multilingual service is to answer President Xi Jinping's call to increase international communication capacity to present a true, multidimensional and panoramic view of China to foreign readers.
It is a practice to use new concepts, domains and expressions to tell China's stories better, help targeted audiences to know more about real China and enlarge the circle of friends who understand China.
It is also the newspaper's move to implement the mobile-first strategy, which prioritizes mobile-enabled versions.
Established on July 1, 1997, Shenzhen Daily now is the leading news platform in South China and publishes multimedia contents across multiple platforms: the Shenzhen Daily newspaper, website www.eyeshenzhen.com, the WeChat accounts Shenzhen Daily and EyeShenzhen, Shenzhen Daily app, and Weibo, Twitter, YouTube and Facebook accounts under the name of Shenzhen Daily.