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China, Taiwan
In late August 2026, the Chinese Communist Party’s official All-China Journalists Association (中華全國新聞工作者協會) hosted an eight-day trip to China. Fifteen senior journalists from the Taiwan-based Republic of China Veteran Journalists Association (中華民國資深記者協會) visited cultural attractions and technology companies in Shanghai and Anhui Province, and also conducted exchanges with Chinese media, including Hefei Broadcast Television (合肥市廣播電視臺) and Anhui New Media Group (安徽新媒體集團). In the ACJA’s news release, “Republic of China” (中華民國) is removed from the ROCVJA’s name and writte…
China, Hong Kong
During the September 2026 Asia-Pacific Media Conference in Shenzhen, the Hong Kong-based newspaper South China Morning Post (SCMP) and the Chinese media conglomerate Nanfang Media Group (南方報業傳媒集團) signed a memorandum of understanding to “establish a long-term framework for news collaboration, event organisation, and media technology innovation,” according to an SCMP report. The partnership will mainly involve the Nanfang Media Group’s International Communication Center’s GDToday, which Guangdong provi…
Taiwan
The Republic of China Veteran Journalists Association (中華民國資深記者協會) is a professional organization for senior journalists based in the central city of Taichung. It was established in 2005 by Hung Hsi-ming (洪錫銘), founder of the Taiwan-based Century News (世紀新聞社). According to Hung, nearly 200 members joined ROCVJA when it was founded. In a 2025 Century News report, Hung said that the organization has had “many exchanges” with Chinese official media, such as Xinhua News Agency, People’s Daily, and the United Front’s China News Service, or CNS. One exa…
China
Anhui New Media Group (安徽新媒体集团) was founded in 2014 under the Anhui Provincial Party Committee Propaganda Office, according to its website. It claims to be the first authorized provincial-level online media group in the country and the first provincial news website in Anhui Province to gain authorization from the State Council Information Office, an external nameplate for the CCP’s Central Propaganda Department. In addition to providing news, Anhui Media Group also operates several Anhui government and party websites. It also runs the Anhui International Communication …
Hong Kong
The South China Morning Post (SCMP) is Hong Kong's oldest English-language daily newspaper. It was founded in 1903 by Australian-Chinese revolutionary intellectual and activist Tse Tsan-tai and British journalist Alfred Cunningham with the stated mission to “tell the truth for the good of humanity." Today, SCMP covers Hong Kong, China, broader Asian politics, business, and current affairs. It
China
Hefei Broadcast Television (合肥市廣播電視台) is an official television station of the Hefei city government and falls under the leadership of the Hefei Municipal Party Committee’s propaganda department. It claims to be the largest television broadcast institution in Anhui Province, providing four TV channels and four radio programs on news, lifestyle, technology, sports, culture, and tourism, according to a recruitment announcement in 2025. The notice also states that it has over 100 social media accounts, with more than 70 million followers. It established Hefei Culture Broadcas…
Kyrgyzstan
The National Broadcasting Corporation of the Kyrgyz Republic (KTRK), Kyrgyzstan's state broadcaster, signed a letter of intent for joint cultural exchange activities with China Media Group on September 2, 2025, during the Shanghai Cooperation Organization (SCO) summit in Tianjin. The agreement was among 14 bilateral media cooperation deals CMG struck with broadcasters from 13 countries during the summit, covering news reporting, joint programming, cultural activities, technological innovation, industry development, personnel exchanges, and media resource sharing. T…
China
On September 5, 2026, Xinhua News Agency (新華社), together with other Chinese media and media organizations from across Asia, announced the establishment of the Asia-Pacific Media Partnership Organizing Committee (亞太媒體合作夥伴計劃籌備委員會). It was one of several new media initiatives announced at the Asia Pacific Media Forum (亞太媒體高端論壇) in Shenzhen, a gathering of over 400 journalists, media scholars, academics, and officials from the Indo-Pacific under the
Portugal
Jornal Puxin (葡新報) was founded in 2005 by Ma Limei (馬麗梅), a Guangdong immigrant who initially worked in the service industry. Jornal Puxin initially focused on notices from the embassy, legal advice for Chinese immigrants, and local news. The paper has since gone bilingual, publishing in both Chinese and Portuguese, and has a wide digital presence across WeChat, Weibo, Facebook, Instagram, and X. According to re…
China
The Shenzhen Municipal Committee of the Chinese Communist Party (中國共產黨深圳市委員會) is the leading political organ of the Chinese Communist Party in Shenzhen, a sub-provincial city and special economic zone in the southern Guangdong Province. The Committee exercises authority over governance, economic planning, and ideological work. It was established on January 23, 1979, when Guangdong's provincial party committee dissolved the former Bao'an County committee and established Shenzhen as a city. The city became one of China's first special economic zones in the 1980s, and it is now…
Vietnam
The Vietnam News Agency, or VNA, is the official state-run news agency of the Socialist Republic of Vietnam, founded in 1945. The agency functions as a government agency that publishes and broadcasts official information and documents of the Communist Party and State and provides information services for the Party's leadership and state management. It operates more than 30 foreign bureaus worldwide, and it owns and publishes several news…
China
The Shenzhen Press Group (深圳報業集團) is a Chinese state-owned media conglomerate formed in 2002 through the merger of the Shenzhen Special Zone Press Group (深圳特區報業集團), a paper founded in 1982 as the official organ of the Shenzhen Municipal Committee, and the Shenzhen Commercial Daily (深圳商報), a business and economy focused paper. As described in their “About Us” page, the group’s miss…
Tajikistan
On July 5, 2024, Khovar News Agency, Tajikistan’s official news agency, and the government-owned Narodnaya Gazeta newspaper published an op-ed by Chinese President Xi Jinping titled “Working Together for a Brighter Tomorrow of China-Tajikistan Relations” (共創中塔關係美好明天). The article outlined five points for deepening China-Tajik relations in areas from “people-to-people exchanges” to top-down governance and border security enforcement. Xi’s proposals were broadcast across Chinese government websites and circulated by official news outlets including [Xinhua](…
Tajikistan
On July 5, 2024, during President Xi Jinping’s third visit to Tajikistan since assuming office in 2012, Khovar News Agency, Tajikistan’s national news outlet, signed a memorandum of understanding with People’s Daily (人民日報), the official “mouthpiece” of the Central Committee of the Chinese Communist Party. The memorandum aims to establish a “regular cooperation mechanism” to deepen news content exchange, joint events, and talent exchange between the two outlets. The signing took place on the same day that an op-ed by President Xi …
Kazakhstan
The state-run Kazakhstan President’s TV and Radio Complex and China Media Group (中央廣播電視總台), also known as the “Voice of China,” signed a memorandum of understanding during the Second China-Central Asia Summit in June 2025, a diplomatic meeting between China and five Central Asian countries. The agreement, according to a report by the national broadcaster China Central Television (中央電視台), which is owned by CMG, will facilitate technology and content exchange between China Media Group and Kazak…
Kazakhstan
On June 16, 2025, during the second China-Central Asia Summit, a diplomatic meeting between China and five Central Asian countries first held in 2023, the state-run Kazakhstan President’s TV and Radio Complex and China Media Group (中央廣播電視總台) signed an agreement to jointly produce "Silk Way Star" (絲路之星), a singing competition gathering contestants from Central Asian countries and China, planned to air on the Kazakh national Silk Way TV channel and Chi…
Spain
On February 24, 2020, Yao Fei (姚飛), China’s then-charge d’affairs to Spain, was interviewed by Spanish radio broadcaster Onda Cero’s program “Más de uno” (“More Than One”) about the coronavirus pandemic. Acknowledging that the virus had caused a major public health crisis in China, Yao stated in the interview that China maintained a “policy of complete transparency” in its response to the virus in response to criticisms of the Chinese go…
Kazakhstan
On June 16, 2025, during the Second China-Central Asia Summit, a diplomatic meeting between China and leaders from five Central Asian countries, China Media Group (中央廣播電視總台) signed a memorandum of understanding with the Khabar Agency, one of Kazakhstan’s largest state broadcasters owned wholly by the Ministry of Culture. The MoU aimed to broaden exchanges in areas such as news content and technology sharing. According to a report from the CMG-owned China Central Television (中央電視台), or CCTV, the agreement would contribute to the development of the China-Kazakhstan Permane…
Spain
Headquartered in Madrid, Onda Cero is a national radio broadcaster that first went on air November 1990, covering news, politics, culture, and more. It is owned by the publicly-traded Astresmeda, one of Spain’s largest media companies which also owns several other radio and television stations as well as a streaming platform, Astresplayer. Onda Cero had an average of 2.3 million listeners in the first half of 2026, according to a
Belarus, India, Kyrgyzstan, Russia, Uzbekistan
China Media Group (中央廣播電視總台), the state broadcaster operating under the direct control of the Chinese Communist Party's Central Propaganda Department, launched a multilingual version of its television program "Ping 'Yu' Jin Ren: Classical Sayings Favored by Xi Jinping" (平'語'近人──習近平喜歡的典故) at a ceremony in Bishkek on August 30, 2026. The launch coincided with Chinese President Xi Jinping's state visit to Kyrgyzstan ahead of the Bishkek summit of the Shanghai Cooperation Organization (SCO), the regional economic and security group…
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