CRI听力：Foreign Journalists Visit Tibet Exhibit

Anchor:
The ongoing exhibition, marking the 50th anniversary of Democratic Reform in China's Tibet, received a group of foreign journalists Wednesday.

Our reporter Wang Ling talked to those journalists at the exhibition, which offers a different approach to understanding Tibet. (www.hXen.com)

Reporter:
At invitation of China's Foreign Ministry, more than fifty journalists and correspondents from some thirty foreign media offices in Beijing visited the exhibition this afternoon.

Bodnar Balazs is correspondent of Hungarian News Agency in Beijing. He said he was also here attending an exhibition featuring Tibet's development last year.

"I saw an exhibition last year in this museum. It is good to see what was before and what has happened. People are happy in these pictures because we know what it was before and what it is like now."

Sergi Vicente from Television of Catalonia has spent five years working in China. And he had a visit to Tibet in person three years ago.

"What I saw in Tibet when I was there in 2005 is that the government has invested a lot and has tried to make people happy. My personal opinion is that Tibet has made great progress when we see all these pictures of slaves. It is fact there was a cruel regime."

Sergi Vicente said he doesn't agree with some misleading reporting about Tibet in the west.

"Many people in the west haven't been to Tibet, and say things like that Tibetan culture is disappearing or that Tibetan language is forbidden. I'm also disappointed there is such kind of ignorance. I've been in Tibet and Qinghai and I've seen kids studying with books in Tibetan language. There is a lot of misinformation."

With the same goal to find out more about the real China, Alain Arnaud from the national Swiss radio, RSR, came to the broadcaster's Beijing office. He described the exhibition as quite impressive.

"It is quite impressive because it is not the image we show in West when we talked about Tibet. That is also one of the reasons I love to come here because I'm quite sure that the western media doesn't know enough about China. My aim is really to come here to see more about the real China and just simple people's lives, like how they live and what their problems are. Because my feeling is that actually the Chinese people have the same basic the problems as Swiss people, French people and American people. I think we are quite similar. "

Hopefully, through the voices of those journalists from different countries, a real and comprehensive picture of China will be provided to the people across the whole world.

Wang Ling, CRI news.