"We will work to build a contingent of overseas communications talent which will have a strong political sense, high professional qualifications, strict discipline and good practice," the CPC officials said in the letter.

They said in the face of the international community’s growing demand for information about China and increasingly intensive competition in international media, CIPG should "further liberate minds, seek truth from fact and progress with the times". They expressed the wish that CIPG continue to innovate in reform and development so as to make an ever greater contribution to creating a favorable environment for international opinion and building a prosperous society.