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On August 24, 2022, Xinhuanet (新華網), the publicly listed online platform of China’s government-run news agency, Xinhua, signed a cooperation agreement in Beijing with the government of Cangzhou, a port city in Hebei province, and unveiled the Cangzhou International Communication Center (滄州市國際傳播中心). According to Xinhuanet, the launch opened a North America branch of the center in New York offering “24-hour international communication services.” The propaganda office of the Cangzhou CCP Committee later sai…
Spain
On October 6, 2026, Zhang Hui (張輝), communication director at the China International Communications Group (中國外文局), or CICG, unit that publishes China Today (今日中國), held a roundtable in Madrid with Spanish journalist Georgina Rosa Higueras Rumbao and Juan Antonio Perteguer, whom CICG described as the head of a Spanish business association. The session, titled “Understanding China’s Development Logic and Exploring Opportunities for Cooperation with China” (讀懂中國發展邏輯，探討對華合作機遇), took place at a book-reading exchange on the Spanish edition of Xi Jinpi…
Spain
On October 6, 2026, three mayors from Spain’s Toledo province took part in a roundtable on local cooperation with China, titled “Spanish Mayors’ Dialogue: New Opportunities for Local Cooperation with China” (西班牙市長對話——對華地方合作新機遇), held as part of a Madrid book-reading exchange on the Spanish edition of Xi Jinping: The Governance of China, Volume V (習近平談治國理政第五卷西文版). Manuel Guillermo Fernández Lázaro-Carrasco of Gálvez, Emilio Bravo Peña of Mora and Sagrario Gutiérrez Fernández of Guadamur discussed
Argentina, Belarus, Brazil, Bulgaria, Chad, China, Democratic Republic of Congo, Egypt, Ghana, Indonesia, Mauritius, Nigeria, Russia
From August 26 to September 1, 2024, the official All-China Journalists Association (中華全國新聞工作者協會), or ACJA, a Chinese Communist Party-led professional association that serves a key role in implementing press control policies, co-hosted the 2024 Belt and Road Journalists Forum with the propaganda office of the Chongqing CCP Committee (中共重慶市委宣傳部). It was the first edition of the annual forum held outside Beijing. Nearly 100 leaders of journalist organizations and media representatives from 50 countries and regions joined organized reporting tours of Chongqing before the ma…
Germany
On December 2, 2024, the Jinan International Communication Center (濟南國際傳播中心), a municipal external propaganda platform guided by the propaganda office of the Jinan CCP Committee (濟南市委宣傳部), opened a German branch in Frankfurt together with the German bureau of Nouvelles d’Europe (歐洲時報). Sun Shihui (孫世會), then executive deputy head of the propaganda office, and Hu Xudong (胡旭東), editor-in-chief of the paper’s German bureau, attended the unveiling. Jinan named Hu an honorary overseas promoter of “Spring City culture” (泉城文化海外推薦官), after the city’s nickname, formally enlisting a newspaper editor to market Jinan abroad. The two sides also signed an international communication agreement.…
Spain
On May 19, 2026, the International Department of the official All-China Journalists Association (中華全國新聞工作者協會), or ACJA, a Chinese Communist Party-led professional association that serves a key role in implementing press control policies, hosted the China-Spain Media Think Tank Dialogue Roundtable (中西媒體智庫對話圓桌會) in Madrid. More than 30 representatives of Chinese and Spanish media outlets and think tanks took part in discussions on media responsibility in the AI era, under a theme linking that topic to advancing stable China-Spain relations. This framing is central to China’s glob…
Spain
On October 6, 2026, Xie Gang (謝剛), vice president of China International Communications Group (中國外文局), or CICG, presented José Luis Centella Gómez, president of the Communist Party of Spain (西班牙共產黨), or PCE, with a copy of China Today (今日中國) featuring Centella’s article on the 90th anniversary of the Long March, the CCP’s foundational 1934–1936 military retreat. Xie, Centella and Chinese Ambassador to Spain Yao Jing (姚敬) met in Madrid ahead of a CICG
China, Egypt, Indonesia, Kazakhstan, Nigeria, Russia, Solomon Islands, Switzerland
On October 12, 2023, the official All-China Journalists Association (中華全國新聞工作者協會), or ACJA, a Chinese Communist Party-led professional association that serves a key role in implementing press control policies, gathered nearly 100 heads of journalist organizations and media representatives from more than 40 countries and regions in Beijing to mark the 10th anniversary of the Belt and Road Initiative. Sun Yeli (孫業禮), then a deputy head of the Central Propaganda Department (中央宣傳部), addressed the forum. ACJA president He Ping (何平) urged attendees to jointly tell good stories of Belt and Road cooperation and to sing the
Belgium
On August 24, 2022, Xinhuanet (新華網), the publicly listed online platform of China’s government-run news agency, Xinhua, signed a cooperation agreement in Beijing with the government of Cangzhou, a port city in Hebei province, and unveiled the Cangzhou International Communication Center (滄州市國際傳播中心). According toXinhuanet, the launch opened a Europe branch of the center in Brussels offering “24-hour international communication services.” The propaganda office of the Cangzhou CCP Committee later said th…
Ghana
The New Times Corporation is one of Ghana’s two state-owned newspaper publishers. It publishes the daily Ghanaian Times and the weekly The Spectator. It began as the Guinea Press, established by President Kwame Nkrumah in 1957 as the printing house for his Convention People’s Party. After Nkrumah’s overthrow in a 1966 military coup, the press was taken over as state property by decree in 1968, and in 1971 it was reconstituted under its current name. The corporation is wholly state-owned and overseen by Ghana’s State Interests and Governance Authority, but it funds itself mainly through advert…
Egypt
The Middle East News Agency (中東通訊社), or MENA, is Egypt’s official news agency. It was established on December 15, 1955 as a joint-stock company owned by Egyptian press establishments. It was nationalized in 1960 and placed under the Ministry of Information. The agency has ties to Chinese state media going back decades. MENA’s chairman has said the agency signed its first news exchange agreement with Xinhua in 1958, and that the agreement remains in effect. He has also praise…
Thailand
The Confederation of ASEAN Journalists was founded in Jakarta on March 11, 1975 by delegates of the national journalist organizations of ASEAN member states. Journalist bodies from Myanmar and Cambodia later joined. Its presidency rotates among member organizations. Indonesia took the post for 2022–2024 at a general assembly in Bali in October 2022, with PWI chairman Atal S. Depari as president. Speaking in that capacity at the 2023 Belt and Road Journalists Forum in Beijing, Depari
Solomon Islands
The Media Association of Solomon Islands (所羅門媒體協會), or MASI, is the country’s national association of journalists. In May 2022, MASI called on members to boycott the only press event of Chinese Foreign Minister Wang Yi’s (王毅) visit to Honiara, protesting restrictions that limited attendance to a few selected local outlets and Chinese media and allowed only two questions. Officials cited COVID-19 concerns, but MASI president Georgina Kekea called that an excuse and framed…
United States
The North America Regional Bureau (新華社北美總分社) of Xinhua News Agency, China’s state news agency and an institution directly under the State Council, was formally established in New York in October 2008. According to Xinhua, the bureau oversees nine bureaus in the United States and Canada, including those in Washington, at the United Nations, and in Ottawa and Toronto. In May 2011, the bureau moved into
Switzerland
The Geneva Press Club, formally the Club suisse de la presse, is a Swiss association founded on October 22, 1997, with backing from the Swiss Confederation. Its mission is to host visiting journalists and foster exchanges between Swiss and international figures in politics, economics, culture and science. Its founding members included Swiss broadcaster RTSR, La Tribune de Genève and other media groups, alongside private institutions. The club organizes press conferences and debates for the international organizations based in Geneva, and
Spain
The Ayuntamiento de Gálvez (加爾維斯市政府) is the municipal government of Gálvez, a town in Spain’s Toledo province in the Castile-La Mancha region. As of October 2026, the council was led by Manuel Guillermo Fernández Lázaro-Carrasco of the conservative People’s Party (人民黨). He won reelection in May 2023 after 28 years as mayor. On October 6, 2026, Fernández
Ghana
The Ghanaian Times (加納時報) is an English-language daily newspaper published in Accra by the New Times Corporation, a wholly state-owned enterprise overseen by Ghana’s State Interests and Governance Authority, which replaced the State Enterprises Commission in 2019. The publisher began as the Guinea Press, established by Ghana’s first president, Kwame Nkrumah, in 1957 as the printing house for his Convention People’s Party. In February 1966, army and police officers overthrew Nkrumah in a milita…
Mauritius
The Media Trust is a Mauritian statutory body established under the Media Trust Act in 1994. It was set up to strengthen the professional capacity of local journalists through training. Its chairperson as of August 2024, Ashok Taluck Beeharry, told the 2024 Belt and Road Journalists Forum in Chongqing that he admired Chinese media’s commitment to public service. The Trust’s ties to Beijing predate that forum. According to
China
Beijing Review (北京週報) is an English-language weekly news magazine launched in Beijing in March 1958 as Peking Review. It is published by the China International Communication Group (中國外文出版發行事業局), or CICG, which official sources describe as an “international communication institution” responsible for the “external promotion tasks of the Party and state” (承擔黨和國家對外宣介任務). CICG is an institution directly under the CCP Central Committee. Under a 2021 restructuring of…
China
The Cangzhou International Communication Center (滄州市國際傳播中心) is a municipal external propaganda platform in Cangzhou, a port city in Hebei province. It was launched on August 24, 2022, at a ceremony in Beijing, under a cooperation agreement with Xinhuanet (新華網), the online platform of Xinhua News Agency. The center is one of the many local international communication centers that Beijing h…
