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China
The 25th Council of Heads of State of the Shanghai Cooperation Organization (上海合作組織), convening in Tianjin on August 31–September 1, 2025, adopted the Tianjin Declaration (天津宣言) alongside a dedicated "Statement on Further Deepening International Cooperation in Artificial Intelligence" (上海合作組織成員國元首理事會關於進一步深化人工智能國際合作的聲明) — one of five thematic statements issued at the summit. Attended by more than 20 heads of state including Chines…
China, Hungary
On February 26, 2025, Duna Médiaszolgáltató (DMSZ) and Hunan Satellite Television (湖南衛視) signed a memorandum of cooperation in Changsha, the capital of Hunan province, covering a range of media co-productions and exchanges. According to a Hunan Broadcasting press release, the memorandum was signed by a DMSZ executive and Song Dian (宋點), director of Hunan Satellite Television, in the presence of the Hungarian Consul General in Chongqing and Hunan Broadcasting chairman Gong Zhengwen (龔政文). The agreement covers co-production of China-related documentaries and food programs, cultural exchanges, and talent training. The deal builds on a July 2023 cooperat…
Japan
On December 4, 2024, the Keizai Koho Center (經濟廣報中心), the international communications arm of Keidanren (經團連), Japan's most influential business lobby, hosted its annual reception for Chinese media correspondents and Japanese corporate representatives in Tokyo. Held yearly since 2005, the event was paused during the COVID-19 pandemic and resumed in 2022. According to KKC, over 70 attendees participated, including 45 journalists from 24 Chinese media outlets such as China Media Group (中央廣播電視總台), Xinhua News Agency (新華通訊社), and People's Daily (人民日報). KKC Senior Managing Director Ryo Watanabe
China
Hunan Broadcasting System (湖南廣播電視台) is a state-owned media conglomerate headquartered in Changsha, Hunan Province, operating under the Propaganda Office of the Hunan Provincial Committee of the Chinese Communist Party. It was established on June 28, 2010, through a restructuring of the former Hunan Radio, Film and Television Group. The group operates multiple television channels and radio frequencies, and its most prominent outlet, Hunan Television (湖南衛視), is widely regarded as China's second-most-watched chann…
Japan
The Japan Business Federation, known as Keidanren, is a powerful corporate membership federation that is one of Japan's three major economic organizations, formed in May 2002 through the merger of the Japan Federation of Economic Organizations (established 1946) and the Japan Federation of Employers' Associations. According to its own description, as of 2025, the federation comprises 574 leading Japanese companies, 106 national industry associations, and regional economic organizations covering all 47 prefectures. The Federati…
Japan
The Duan Press was founded in 1996 in Tokyo by Duan Yuezhong (段躍中), also known as “Yakuchū Dan,” who previously worked at China Youth Daily (中國青年報), the official newspaper of the Communist Youth League of China. Duan arrived in Japan in 1991 and later established the press, which describes itself as promoting "mutual understanding" between the peoples of China and Japan, language that is often used by publications close to the Party. It publishes China-themed books in Japanese, and
Hungary
Duna Médiaszolgáltató (DMSZ) is Hungary's sole public service broadcaster, established on July 1, 2015, and headquartered in Budapest. While DMSZ carries the formal designation of a public service broadcaster, analysts describe it as a shell entity under effective government control, whose CEO holds no functional autonomy. The network has been strongly criticized within the EU in recent years as a pro-g…
Japan
The Keizai Koho Center (KKC), also known as the Japan Institute for Social and Economic Affairs, was established in 1978 as an affiliate of Keidanren (日本經濟團體連合會), a corporate membership federation that is one of Japan's three major economic organizations. KKC describes itself as a "platform" for the Japanese business community to engage with domestic and international stakeholders, conducting programs through which some 700 companies and 40 industry associations seek to develop ties with lawmakers, government officials, sc…
China
The Artificial Intelligence Cooperation Forum (中国—上海合作组织人工智能合作论坛) of the 2025 China-Shanghai Cooperation Organization (上海合作組織) convened in Tianjin on May 29, 2025, under the theme "Intelligence Converges in China, Wisdom Benefits SCO" (智汇中国，慧聚上合). Co-hosted by China's National Development and Reform Commission (国家发展和改革委员会), or NDRC, a ministerial-level department that coordinates the development policies of the Chinese Communist Party's Central Committee, and the Tianjin Municipal People's Government, the forum brought together ministerial-level repr…
China
The Tianjin Municipal People's Government (天津市人民政府) is the chief administrative body of Tianjin, a directly administered municipality under the central government of the People's Republic of China. It oversees the day-to-day governance of the municipality, including economic planning, public services, urban development, and the implementation of national 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 Tianjin Municipal Committee of the Chinese Communist Party (中國共產黨天津市委員會), which sets the political direction and holds ultimate authority over…
France
The United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO) is a specialized agency of the United Nations established on November 16, 1945, in London, with its Constitution grounded in the conviction that "peace must therefore be founded, if it is not to fail, upon the intellectual and moral solidarity of mankind." Headquartered in Paris, UNESCO works across 194 member states to strengthen international cooperation in education, science, culture, and information. The organization sets standards, produces tools, and develops knowledge to address glob…
Cyprus
The China-Cyprus-Europe Media Forum was held from October 21-23, 2025, in Nicosia, Cyprus. According to a report from the official China News Service, the forum was organized by the China Media Group (中央广播电视总) and the Chinese Embassy in Cyprus, along with the Cyprus Broadcasting Corporation (塞浦路斯广播电视公司), the Cyprus Mail (塞浦路斯邮报), and the government-run Xinhua News Agency (新华社). More than 100 representatives from the media, government, diplomatic missions, universities, think tanks, and enterprises attended. The Chinese Ambassador said that he hoped participants would "deepen exchanges" and "tell stories…
China, Taiwan
The Fourth Cross-Strait Media Summit (第四屆兩岸媒體人北京峰會) was held in Beijing on May 10, 2019, co-organized by Beijing Daily Group (北京日報報業集團) and Want Want China Times Media Group (旺旺中時媒體集團). Nearly seventy Taiwan media organizations sent representatives, led by Want Want Holdings (旺旺集團) chairman Tsai Eng-meng (蔡衍明). CPPCC chairman and Politburo Standing Committee member Wang Yang (汪洋) received the Taiwan delegation in a closed-door session, directing those present that achieving peaceful unification and one country two systems required the efforts of media colleagues, and mocking Taiwan's government as unable to guarantee its situation two years hence. Wang Yang further stated that Taiwan inde…
Poland
On June 17, 2025, in Warsaw, Poland, China's official Xinhua News Agency organized a forum with Li Danhong (李丹红), charge d'affaires of the Chinese Embassy in Poland, Polish Media Association (波兰媒体协会) President Marek Traczyk, and former Polish Deputy Prime Minister Janusz Piechocinski attending at Lukaszewski University. Xinhua claimed in official coverage that the event would "enhance economic cooperation and mutual understanding" between the countries, with Li presenting China's commitment to "building an open global economy" and "sharing the dividends of its modernization," while Traczyk,…
China, France, United Kingdom
On December 1, 2023, Xinhua News Agency hosted leaders from the global newswires Reuters, AFP, and the Associated Press in Beijing, with Xinhua President Fu Hua (傅華) proposing a "high-level dialogue and cooperation mechanism" among the agencies. The meeting preceded the fifth World Media Summit in Guangzhou and Kunming. The World Media Summit (WMS), is a forum conceived by China in the midst of the 2008 Beijing Olympic Games and first held in October 2009, with the explicit idea on China’s part to
China, Peru
On October 30, 2024, the China Media Group (CMG), the state-run media conglomerate directly under the Chinese Communist Party’s Central Propaganda Department, launched a program showcase in Lima, a promotional event to introduce approximately 20 Spanish-language productions. These include documentaries on Xi Jinping’s signature Belt and Road Initiative, China’s global development and infrastructure push, and a series on a series on Chinese-…
China
The 2025 South and Southeast Asian Media Network Annual Meeting (2025南亞東南亞媒體聯盟年會) was held on September 5, 2025, in Kunming, bringing together representatives from 11 countries including China, Cambodia, Laos, Myanmar, Thailand, Vietnam, India, and Sri Lanka. The event featured what Chinese state media characterized as "high-level participation" from propaganda and information ministers, underscoring the official and diplomatic core of what the Chinese hosts portrayed as a meeting about regional media cooperation. China Daily publisher Qu Yingpu (曲瑩璞) and Yunnan's top propaganda official, Z…
Vietnam
On January 14, 2026, at the China-ASEAN Digital Ecosystem Cooperation Networking Dinner in Hanoi, Vietnam — held alongside the 6th ASEAN Digital Ministers' Meeting — China and ASEAN formally announced plans to establish the China-ASEAN Digital Academy (中国—东盟数字学院) and the China-ASEAN AI Industry Innovation Center (中国—东盟人工智能产业创新中心). The event was co-organized by China's
Indonesia
The Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN) is a regional intergovernmental organization established on August 8, 1967, in Bangkok, Thailand, with the signing of the ASEAN Declaration (Bangkok Declaration) by five founding members: Indonesia, Malaysia, the Philippines, Singapore, and Thailand. The bloc expanded over subsequent decades, with Brunei Darussalam joining in 1984, Vietnam in 1995, Laos and Myanmar in 1997, Cambodia in 1999, and Timor-Leste on October 25, 2025, bringing total membership to eleven states.
China
The China Academy of Information and Communication Technology (中國信息通信研究院), or CAICT, is a state-affiliated research institution established in 1957 and directly subordinate to China's Ministry of Industry and Information Technology (工業和信息化部). The academy describes its mission as serving as a "national high-end professional think tank and an industrial innovation and development platform," guided by the institutional motto "virtue and learning, industry and ambition" (厚德實學 興業致遠). Over the decades, CAICT has played a central role in shaping …
