国内英语新闻:Xinhua signs MoU with WFP on strategic cooperation

BEIJING, June 5 (Xinhua) -- Xinhua News Agency signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) on strategic cooperation with the United Nations World Food Programme (WFP) on Sunday.

Xinhua editor-in-chief He Ping told visiting WFP executive director Ertharin Cousin that Xinhua was ready to enhance collaboration with the WFP in fighting hunger worldwide.

Hunger is the greatest enemy of humanity in peacetime, He said, noting Xinhua appreciates the great efforts by the WFP in the noble humanitarian cause of alleviating hunger and poverty over the past decades.

As a responsible media organization, Xinhua is willing to record and promote the great historical process, according to He.

Cousin lauded China's achievements in eliminating poverty, saying that she believes Xinhua's broad network will help increase global public awareness of the issue.

The WFP is the world's largest humanitarian agency fighting hunger worldwide.