Media encouraged to bring China and world closer

Media workers should break free from ideological constraints and commit to truth and integrity, much like journalist Edgar Snow from the United States did in his reports on China more than eight decades ago, experts said on Friday.

Such an approach could foster understanding and friendship between Chinese people and the rest of the world, they said.

"Snow's legacy is rooted in his belief in the value of cross-cultural understanding and grounded in a sense of ethical integrity. Today, those ideals are just as critical," said Samuel Colin Maclean, a relative of Edgar Snow and a representative of Harvard University's Fairbank Center for Chinese Studies.