Full coverage: G20 Hangzhou Summit

The G20 summit starts this weekend, and final preparations are wrapping up in the host city Hangzhou in eastern China.

Photo taken on Aug. 31, 2016 shows a press conference hall at the media center of the G20 summit in Hangzhou, capital of east China's Zhejiang Province. The G20 summit will be held in Hangzhou on Sept. 4 and 5. (Xinhua/Xing Guangli)

The G20 media center is officially open. Nearly 5,000 journalists from more than 70 countries and regions, including 2,000 from overseas, have registered to cover the meetings.

More than 50 English-speaking volunteers are on hand to help them with the process and to collect their reporter badges.

Over the following week, these journalists will be finding out how China can help boost the global economic recovery and make the summit a mechanism for long-term governance strategies.

“From yesterday to today, one thousand pieces are given out. Half of them are about reporters' badges. The rest are about radio and wireless service,” said Wu Xin, deputy leader, G20 Overseas Media Group.