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Belarus, Brazil, China
On July 19, 2025, 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, convened the 2025 Belt and Road Journalists Forum in Ganzhou, in China’s Jiangxi province. The ACJA co-hosted the forum with the propaganda office of the Jiangxi Provincial Party Committee. The Jiangxi Journalists Association (江西省新聞工作者協會), Jiangxi Daily (江西日報) and the Ganzhou Municipal People’s Government (贛州市人民政府)
Kazakhstan
On September 23, 2026, 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, and the Union of Journalists of Kazakhstan co-organized the 2026 China-Kazakhstan Media Roundtable in Almaty. The event brought together Chinese and Kazakh journalists, scholars and business representatives to exchange experiences on issues including the role of AI in journalism. In his opening speech, ACJA Secretariat member Yin Lujun (殷陸君) said media collaboration strengthens t…
Brazil
On November 8, 2024, the Brazilian Press Association (巴西新聞協會), or ABI, signed a strategic cooperation agreement in São Paulo with Chongqing’s Western International Communication Center (西部國際傳播中心), or WICC, to set up a Bridging News Brazil Liaison Office. The agreement was reported by Forum Macao (中國—葡語國家經貿合作論壇), a Macau-based platform backed by the Chinese government, citing the ABI. Bridging News is one of the WICC’s international platforms. The WICC is run by …
Cabo Verde, Chile, China, Mongolia, Slovakia, Tajikistan, Zambia
On October 17, 2026, 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, convened the 2026 Belt and Road Journalists Forum in Nanjing. The ACJA co-hosted the forum with the propaganda office of the Jiangsu Provincial Party Committee and the Nanjing Municipal People’s Government. About 100 heads of journalist organizations and media representatives from more than 50 countries and regions attended. The event was held …
France
On July 20, 2026, a Chinese journalists’ delegation headed by Zhang Chunjiao (張春校), vice chair 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, visited the Paris-area offices of Nouvelles d’Europe (歐洲時報), according to the newspaper’s own report. Nouvelles d’Europe is a French-based Chinese-language newspaper with ties to the state-run China News Service and the CCP’s United Front Work Department. Zhong Cheng (鍾誠), president o…
Brazil
On June 16, 2025, the Brazilian Press Association (ABI), founded in 1908 and one of Brazil’s oldest press organizations, signed a memorandum of understanding in Rio de Janeiro with 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, according to the ABI. Wu Xu (吳旭), a member of the ACJA Secretariat, signed for the Chinese side. The memorandum formalized a relationship that began in 2023. In August 2024, the ABI was admitted to the …
China
Shandong Radio and Television (山東廣播電視台) was formed in 2010 through the merger of three radio and television stations. According to its introduction, its official website, iqilu.com (齊魯網), is the designated platform for publishing Shandong provincial government news releases. Its 2025 annual report highlighted its external propaganda work, such as producing the five-episode documentary Master Yijing (義淨大師), intended to promote China-Malaysia exchange. The broadcaster also operates the Shandong…
China
The Ganzhou Municipal People’s Government (贛州市人民政府) is the chief administrative body of Ganzhou, a prefecture-level city in southern Jiangxi province. Ganzhou’s jurisdiction includes Ruijin (瑞金), which served from 1931 as the capital of the CCP’s Chinese Soviet Republic and remains an iconic destination for “red tourism” built around Party revolutionary history. The govern…
Kazakhstan
The Union of Journalists of Kazakhstan (哈薩克斯坦記者協會) is a national journalists’ organization based in Almaty. It was re-established in 2001 as the legal successor to the Soviet-era union of journalists of the Kazakh SSR, which state media date to 1959. The old union lapsed after failing to re-register under a 1996 law on public associations. From its re-establishment, the union was led by Seitkazy Matayev, a former press secretary to President Nursultan Nazarbay…
China
Founded in December 2004, the Gansu Broadcasting Group (甘肅廣播電視總台), also known as Gansu Media Group, was formed hrough the merger of Gansu People’s Radio Station (甘肅人民廣播電台) and Gansu Television Station (甘肅電視台). According to its 2023 annual budget, the group operates under the guidance of the Propaganda Office of the Gansu Provincial Committee of the Chinese Communist Party (中共甘肅省委宣傳部). It runs six television and three radio channels
China
The Propaganda Office of the Chinese Communist Party’s Jiangsu Provincial Committee (中共江蘇省委宣傳部) functions as the central ideological control apparatus for the province. It directs all state-run media, including the provincial Party committee’s official mouthpiece, Xinhua Daily (新華日報), published by the Xinhua Daily Media Group (新華報業傳媒集團). Located in Nanjing’s Gulou District (南京市鼓樓區), the office implements directives from both the central and provincial Party leadership to maintain “correct” political orientation in all local media. It controls information flows, manages public opinion, coordinates propaganda campaigns, and oversees cultural production across the province, ensuring…
China
Founded in January 1987, China Petroleum Daily (中國石油報) is a national newspaper covering China’s oil and gas industry. The paper is wholly owned by China National Petroleum Corporation (中國石油天然氣集團有限公司), or CNPC, China’s largest state-owned oil and gas company, according to China’s business registry. In a report on a 2024 Lunar New Year event it organized, the p…
China
The Nanjing Municipal People’s Government (南京市人民政府) is the chief administrative body of Nanjing, the capital of Jiangsu province and a sub-provincial city in the People’s Republic of China. It oversees the day-to-day governance of the city, including economic planning, public services, urban development, and the implementation of national and provincial policy at the local level. As with all levels of government in China, the Municipal People’s Government operates subordinate to and under the leadership of the Nanjing Municipal Committee of the Chinese Communist Party (中國共產黨南京市委員會), which sets t…
China
Founded in January 1997, the China Internet Information Center (中國互聯網新聞中心), or CIIC, operates the china.com.cn website (中國網). According to its introduction page, the site aims to promote “Xi Jinping Thought on Socialism with Chinese Characteristics for a New Era” (習近平新時代中國特色社會主義思想), Xi’s signature political ideology, written into the Party constitution at the 19th National Con…
China
The Shandong Provincial People’s Government (山東省人民政府) is the chief administrative body of Shandong, a coastal province in eastern China with its capital in Jinan. It oversees the day-to-day governance of the province, including economic planning, public services, urban development and the implementation of national policy at the provincial level. As with all levels of government in China, it operates subordinate to and under the leadership of the Shandong Provincial Committee of the Chinese Communist Party (中國共產黨山東省委員會), which sets the political direction and holds ultimate authority over governance in t…
Germany
From October 14 to 16, 2026, the state-run Global Times (環球時報), a tabloid published by the Chinese Communist Party’s People’s Daily (人民日報), hosted the 17th Media Forum China-Germany (第十七屆中德媒體圓桌會) in the southwestern German city of Heidelberg. The forum has long been run in partnership with China Media Management Inc. (CMM-I傳媒諮詢有限公司), a Beijing-based media consulting firm. According to the Global Times, senior journalists, media executives and scholars from both countries discussed 10 topics, including China-Germany relations, global security, AI governan…
Tajikistan
The Union of Journalists of Tajikistan (塔吉克斯坦記者聯盟) is Tajikistan’s oldest national journalists’ organization. It was established in 1959 at the first congress of journalists of what was then the Tajik Soviet Socialist Republic. The union describes itself as an independent, self-governing public organization. It brings together journalists’ unions from the country’s regions, cities and districts, with branches in the Khatlon, Sughd and Gorno-Badakhshan regions. Its Dushanbe office is at 16 Sadi Sherozi Avenue, the same building that houses the state news…
Tajikistan
On October 16, 2026, the Union of Journalists of Tajikistan (塔吉克斯坦記者聯盟) signed a cooperation agreement with the All-China Journalists Association (中華全國新聞工作者協會), or ACJA, in Nanjing, according to Tajikistan’s state news agency Khovar, citing the union. The ACJA is an ostensible professional media association that works as a key part of China’s press control apparatus. In its own declarations
Brazil
On July 19, 2025, Brazil’s National Federation of Journalists, or FENAJ, the chief labor and professional organization representing journalist unions and media workers across the country, received a certificate recognizing it as an “International Home of Journalists” (國際記者之家) at the 2025 Belt and Road Journalists Forum in Ganzhou, in China’s Jiangxi province. The International Home of Journalists is an initiative of the All-China Journalists Association (中華全國新聞工作者協會), or ACJA, an ostensible prof…
Cabo Verde
On October 17, 2026, the Association of Journalists of Cabo Verde, or AJOC, received an International Home of Journalists (國際記者之家) partnership certificate at the 2026 Belt and Road Journalists Forum in Nanjing, according to the Cabo Verdean outlet Mindel Insite. The International Home of Journalists is an initiative of the All-China Journalists Association (中華全國新聞工作者協會), or ACJA, an ostensible professional media association that works as a key part of China’s press con…
