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At the 2025 Media Cooperation Forum on Belt and Road held in Kunming, China, NEWS.am news and analytical agency received the Grand Prize in the “Best Video” category at the second Silk Road Global News international awards ceremony for its work “In the Book of my Dreams.”
The video tells about Armenian-Chinese relations, the origins of which go back centuries and is presented through the eyes of an 11-year-old Armenian boy.
The 2nd Silk Road Global News Award, hosted by the BRNN and organized by the BRNN council chair, People's Daily, features four categories—Best Reporting, Best Photography, Best Video, and Best Innovation. Since April 2024, approximately 5,000 applications were received from 110 countries and regions to participation in this competition. And according to the results of the selection, 58 works from 37 countries were put on the list of award winners, including 4 grand prizes, 16 victories in nominations, and 38 consolation prizes.
Highlights included Colin Stevens, editor-in-chief of EU Reporter, who won Best Reporting for China's Belt & Road: Building Bridges not Walls. Argentine photographers Renato Valentini, Rocío Vellón and others took home Best Photography Award for their photo essay CRRC New Energy Trains Roll into Jujuy. Best Video went to In the Book of my Dreams by NEWS.am from Armenia, while Documentary: Treasures and Masks, a co-production by Egyptian Television and China Media Group, was honored with the Best Innovation Award.
