The symposium with the theme of creating high-quality works and telling China's stories well is held on December 17. (PHOTO: Publishing House of Electronics Industry)

By ZONG Shihan

A symposium with the theme of creating high-quality works and telling China's stories well was held in Beijing on December 17. A new book on foreign experts' China stories was also released on the occasion.

Written by Xu Qingqun, editor-in-chief of International Talent Magazine, the book tells the stories of 16 foreign experts working and living in China, recording their thoughts on the progress of education and technology, the improvement in medical and health care, and the achievements of rural revitalization in the past decade.

Laurence J. Brahm, an American documentary filmmaker, said at the symposium that China and foreign countries need a new "ping-pong diplomacy" and "kung fu culture," and more foreigners need to understand China's values.

British-Canadian Michael Crook, who has lived in Beijing for 50 years, said in the current complicated international situation, it is necessary to tell China's stories from the perspective of foreign experts, and also to tell the story of the Chinese helping overseas, so that more foreigners know the real China.