all-round China-Africa ties in a fast and healthy manner. 3. We unanimously believe that media in developing countries shall serve national development and social progress, and become a driving force behind national modernization. They shall promote traditional culture，build national consensus，serve public interests and safeguard social stability. They shall join hands to push forward the establishment of a new model of international relations with win-win cooperation at the core, and jointly safeguard and promote international equity and justice. 4. We will, in the tradition of equal consultation and joint development and based on the solid foundation of China-African media cooperation and the platform of the Forum on China-Africa Media Cooperation, encourage and support more of direct exchanges in personnel and information between China and African media, promote mutual exchange and learning between the two civilizations, so as to better serve the passing on and carrying forward the traditional friendship and the establishment and development of the Comprehensive Strategic and Cooperative Partnership between China and Africa, embark on a five-year capacity building program through training, infrastructure development and institutions building. 5. We unanimously commit, in the Silk Road Spirit of peace and cooperation, openness and inclusiveness, learning from each other, mutual benefit and win-win results, to joint effort for bringing into play the advantages of radio, film and television in cultural and people-to-people exchanges and communication to contribute to the promoting of the initiative to jointly build the Silk Road Economic Belt and the 21st Century Maritime Silk Road, develop and promote national and local African contents to fully contribute to digital economy, and enhance our cooperation in cybersecurity and digitalization. 6. We unanimously hold that maintaining peace and calm in the South China Sea is of great importance to world peace, stability and development, and in the common interest of the people all over the world. African countries strongly call the related parties to peacefully resolve, through friendly consultation and negotiation, territorial and maritime disputes in accordance with bilateral agreements and relevant regional consensus, and affirm the respect to sovereign states and signatory states to the United Nations Convention on the Law of the Sea of their rights to choose dispute settlement approach on their own. 7. We unanimously undertake to facilitate, from inheriting and carrying forward the traditional friendship between China and Africa and jointly safeguarding international equity and justice and facilitate China-Africa cooperation in the fields of media and international communication to win more say and increase influence for us in the arena of international public opinion so as to provide favorable public opinion support for China and Africa to realize common development and our shared dreams. The Third Forum on China-Africa Media Cooperation June 21, 2016