Comfortable environment, convenient communication equipment, broadband, IDD telephone, bulletin boards. Many African reporters coming to China for the Beijing Summit of the Forum on China-Africa Cooperation said they feel like working at home.

So far over 1,200 Chinese and overseas journalists have been registered for the covering of the summit, including 118 African reporters that have arrived in Beijing. About 300 African reporters are expected to come to China for the summit.

Yin Nan, a volunteer from the China Foreign Affairs University said they have made full preparations so as to offer more convenience to African reporters. Volunteers working for the summit have received many language tests and relevant training, he said.

At the press center, working staff will offer timely help to any African reporter that meets technological problems with their computers. Brochures about Chinese society, economy, culture, tourism and preparation for the Olympic Games are handy at the press center, and African reporters are happy with all kinds of snacks, coffee and tea outside meeting halls.

Pierre Essomba, a reporter from the Cameroon Tribune said he and his colleagues would cover major meetings between leaders of Cameroon and China in Beijing, and also interview some Chinese enterprises that have cooperative projects with his country.

These are issues of great concern among domestic readers, he said.

Source: Xinhua