Yang Mu's Journalism Career

1957 was assigned to the international department of Xinhua head office, which became the most important turning point in his life, from an all-round cadre to a reporter. He made up his mind to be an excellent reporter. To this end, he established three principles: ① to establish a strong revolutionary journalism; Do what you need to do and learn what you need; Exercise your body and style to meet the needs of journalism, especially for foreign journalists. Over the past 40 years, he has formed his own "strict, bitter, meticulous and progressive" style.

When he started working in the international department of Xinhua News Agency, he was proficient in Russian. After 1960, he needed to use English at work, so he studied English news writing hard and compiled a dictionary to accumulate vocabulary. The leader assigned him to report on international sports and technology. He didn't understand and was not interested in sex, so he went to the Sports Commission to consult table tennis coach Fu Qifang and men's team champion Rong Guotuan. He participated in the 28th World Table Tennis Championships in Yugoslavia, the Universiade in Bulgaria, the 7th and 8th Asian Games in Iran and Thailand, and even the Olympic Games in Seoul. He not only wrote the news himself, but later became one of the main members of Xinhua News Agency's press corps. Large-scale sports meetings often require 16 days of work. Every night after the press conference, he will also write a daily commentary on the game, go to bed at 3 am, get up at 7 am, and then go to work to start a new day.

Since 1964, he has often been sent to international conferences or visited abroad with central leaders and has been to 36 countries. What made him deeply educated was his visit to Romania with Premier Zhou Enlai.

From 1980 to 1986, he served as the chief reporter of the Bangkok branch of Xinhua News Agency, covering not only Thailand and Cambodia, but also Malaysia and Singapore. In the past six and a half years, he conducted surprise interviews, thinking that only by in-depth interviews and visits to the front line can we give full play to the characteristics of Xinhua News Agency, speed up reporting time, strengthen research and make friends. He is also committed to the "landing" of Xinhua News Agency's Chinese and English manuscripts in Thailand and strives to be adopted by local newspapers. He established the interview rate, the news rate of the day and the newspaper adoption rate in the branch, that is, the "three rates" standard of interview, timeliness and landing. Since April 1980, it has been registered every day, checked and summarized every month and reported to the head office, which has been well received. He stipulates that every day before midnight, whenever an important foreign guest visits Thailand, the reporter of the branch must be interviewed at the airport, and immediately write a manuscript and send it back to the head office after returning to the branch, which meets the requirement of "sending news on the same day". The practice of attaching importance to interviews has also been recognized by Xinhua News Agency reporters. Xinhua News Agency reporter is "Mr. Everywhere".

Yang Mu once went deep into the battlefield in Cambodia, interviewed 20 or 30 times before and after, and participated in international conferences on Cambodia held in Singapore, Malaysia and Paris. From 65438 to 0990, the United Nations held the "Round Table of Experts on Hot Issues in Asia" in new york, and he was invited to participate. Therefore, he is famous for his writing and research on Cambodia and ASEAN issues, and has also made friends with a group of elites and Chinese from these countries. 1986 came back from Thailand and left for 40 days. Many units sent people (such as the director of Sihanouk's general office) to see me off at the airport.

In Yang Mu's journalistic career, the most memorable ones are several adventurous interviews. Since 198 1, he has led five groups of Xinhua writers and photographers to interview the Cambodian battlefield. He experienced riding an elephant in the dry season, drinking dirty water like a sewer in a crack, and letting it rain heavily in the rainy season. 1982 ended, and the reporter and his party went deep into Angkor -6 Highway in the hinterland of Cambodia and walked back and forth for 37 days. When I arrived at litchi mountain, I was chased by the Vietnamese army, and I marched in an emergency overnight. Poplar caught a bad cold and later turned into malignant malaria. The high fever persists and cannot be cured. The anti-Vietnamese troops sent more than 80 rescuers to escort him to the military medical clinic on the Thai-Cambodian border. I went through difficulties and obstacles all the way, and it took me six days to get to the clinic. My health was seriously damaged. After his illness, he insisted on interviewing Sihanouk and others.