At 2 pm, the meeting officially began. The three spokespersons of Mu Yang, Cheng Gang, Yan Lei and Zhou Ying also came. Mu Yang finally saw the Three Treasures of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs. Sister Ying was generous and intellectual, Yan Lei was gentle and polite, and they could see a kind of confidence power.

"Before the meeting, we welcome the new Comrade Mu Yang to work in the News Department. Mu Yang is 26 years old. He was previously a counselor of economics and business in Munich, Germany. Today he joined the News Department's Release Office and served as deputy director of the spokesperson's assistant team. From now on, we will be a comrade in a trench. We also welcome backbone forces like Mu Yang to join our team."

Cheng Gang said to me, everyone applauded and welcomed. When Cheng Gang introduced Mu Yang, he had already stood up. Everyone applauded and welcomed. Mu Yang bowed slightly and sat down.

Next, the entire team began to discuss the afternoon speech.

The regular diplomatic meeting is the Ministry of Foreign Affairs to release information on China's important diplomatic activities, explain China's foreign policy work, and undertake the news work of important national foreign affairs activities. It is held every day from Monday to Friday at 3 pm in the Blue Hall of the South Building of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs.

Before 2011, the regular meetings were twice a week, Tuesday and Thursday, from Tuesday and Thursday, to five times after 2011, and the workload suddenly increased several times. This difficulty can be imagined.

The specific process is that today's spokesperson first releases a few messages. This is the information the Ministry of Foreign Affairs wants to publish to the public, and then the reporter's questioning session. Each regular meeting usually lasts no more than 20 minutes.

Don’t underestimate these short 20 minutes. This is how it is done every day, and you need to deal with major domestic and foreign events, as well as various tricky questions that reporters may raise. This is quite difficult. The information you need to prepare can be described as a massive amount. You can imagine how much work is.

"There are three pieces of information that need to be announced this afternoon. The first is that at the invitation of Foreign Minister Yang XX, Russian Federation Foreign Minister Sergei Viktorovic Lavrov will come to China from July 28 to 29 to attend the Fifth Foreign Ministers' Meeting on the Asian Mutual Cooperation and Confidence Measures, and pay an official visit to China."

"Article 2, the 22nd China-ASEAN senior officials consultation will be held in Singapore from July 27 to 28. Chinese Vice Foreign Minister Liu Zhenmin will co-chair the meeting with Chi Weiqiang, the Standing Secretary of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Singapore, a country coordinating China-ASEAN relations."

"Article 3: From now on, Ambassador Gong Xiaosheng will replace Ambassador Wu Siko as China's Middle East Special Envoy"

"These three are confirmed, right? Please consider the sentences in them carefully and then finalize them." Cheng Gang said to the assistant group after reading them.

Director Cheng Gang spoke today for today's regular meeting. While he read these notices, he also wanted to get familiar with the contents.

"Next, let's discuss the issues that journalists are more concerned about today."

"This is what I have summarized today. There are 31 hottest items in total and 102 secondary items. Preliminary opinions have been given." Shen Jianhua said.

"About the incident of the kidnapping of our citizens in the southern Philippines, we have prepared detailed information, including the personal basic information of the kidnapping, the organization of the kidnapping, and the preparation work of our embassy."

"The issue of China sending more troops to South Sudan is also a hot topic. We have prepared several aspects of this issue that reporters may mention."

"Japan is discussing with the United States about purchasing offensive weapons."

“The issue of the Mozambique government signing a ceasefire with the opposition’s national resistance movement and ending the hostile state agreement.”

Mu Yang is a newcomer, and he is still in the learning stage and has not spoken. He is always observing everyone's work status and working methods. Mu Yang believes that with his own abilities, he will definitely be competent for this job as soon as possible.

After sorting out these information one by one, it was already 2:45. After the meeting, everyone started to walk out. Today, Director Cheng Gang was the spokesperson, so he was going to the Blue Hall of the South Building to prepare for the regular meeting at 3:00. Time was really tight.

Mu Yang suddenly thought of something, took two steps to chase Cheng Gang and said, "Director Cheng, can I visit the regular meeting?"

Cheng Gang did not stop, looked at Mu Yang with a smile, and said as he walked: "Yes, feel the atmosphere at the press conference and the tricky questions of those reporters, so it is easier to understand how to deal with the media."

Everyone came to the blue hall of the south building. The reporter sat a lot. Mu Yang found a place behind him to sit down and check the time. There were still 5 minutes left.

The Blue Hall is a press conference hall newly launched by the Ministry of Foreign Affairs in October 2010. It is named Blue Hall because it is mainly blue. It is located on the third floor of the South Building of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs. It has a total area of ​​550 square meters, twice that of the old press conference hall. The facilities are equipped with more international, professional and humanized.

The original designer said that blue represents openness, courage, sincerity and harmony. Blue is also the color of the sea, with the mind of "the sea embraces all rivers", and is also the spirit and essence of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs. I hope that the "Blue Hall" will become a bridge of communication, a platform of communication, and a mirror that constantly reflects China's reform and opening up process.

The most prominent sign in the publishing hall is a huge blue background board with a height of 5 meters and a width of 6 meters. The background board is inlaid with white world map outlines and Chinese and English words "Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the People's Republic of China", meaning "to be in love with China and look at the world".

There is a publishing station in the middle, and there is a national flag on each side of the publishing station. Below is the reporter area, and Mu Yang is sitting at the end.

At 3:00 pm, the regular press conference began. Cheng Gang strided to the front of the release stage and stood there. "Good afternoon, friends from reporters." Then Cheng Gang went straight to the topic, "At the invitation of Foreign Minister Yang XX, Foreign Minister Sergei of the Russian Federation."

The three news items that need to be reported were quickly finished. The reporters were not very concerned about these contents, and the next questioning session was the most exciting.

A reporter asked: "Just a while ago, the Yasukuni Shrine in Japan was completely damaged by a terrorist explosion. The Japanese government recently stated that it would rebuild the Yasukuni Shrine. What do China have any opinions on this."

"I have paid attention to this news. China is cracking down on all terrorism."

"As for the fact that Japan was hit by terrorist bombings and the Yasukuni Shrine was damaged, we Chinese believe that Yasukuni Shrine openly worshipped Class A war criminals in World War II. The Chinese government expressed strong indignation for Japan's act of brutal trampling on the feelings of China and other Asian war victims, and blatantly challenging historical justice and human conscience, and raised strong protests and severe condemnation to the Japanese side."
Chapter completed!