Sino-US Intellectual Exchange Qu Yingpu (seated center), deputy editor-in-chief of China Daily, speaks at a panel discussion during a Sino-US colloquium on a new type of major country relations and the role of the media on Sunday in Washington. [Li Ge/China Daily]

Media professionals and scholars from China and the United States participated in a two-day conference Oct 5-6 at the National Press Club in Washington to discuss the new type of major country relationship and the role of the media. The meeting was organized by the China Energy Fund Committee as its sixth Sino-US Colloquium first launched four years ago.