China will continue to manage the Internet in accordance with relevant laws in 2012, according to a statement from a national meeting that sets the annual agenda for China's image projection abroad.

China will use the Internet positively, develop it scientifically and strive to foster a "healthy and upward" cyberculture, it reads.

At the meeting, Wang Chen, deputy head of the publicity department of the CPC Central Committee, pushed for greater efforts to spread China's voice and project a positive image of China worldwide.

Efforts would also be made to promote China's national condition, values and development pattern as well as its internal and foreign policies.

As the country looks to promote its soft power, it will cultivate world-class media organizations and encourage media organizations to strengthen exchanges and cooperation with their foreign counterparts, according to the statement.

Xinhua