The China Global Television Network (CGTN) Global Media Summit and the Global Video Media Forum (VMF) 2017 opened on Tuesday in south China's Hainan Province, drawing almost 400 representatives from up to 100 media organizations from 45 countries and regions to discuss topics such as how to accelerate and deepen the integrative development of conventional and emerging media, make full use of new technologies and applications to innovate approaches of media dissemination, and how to deal with the challenges commonly faced by the media around the world.