Telling China’s Story, One Bottle at a Time
As China’s leaders gathered in Beijing to chart the country’s future amid economic uncertainty, state media sought to shift the focus — bottling up more critical coverage.
The First Cross-Strait Media Summit (第一屆兩岸媒體人北京峰會) was held in Beijing in late 2015, 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). The summit was the inaugural event in an annual series established under the strategic cooperation agreement the two groups signed in late 2014, providing a recurring institutional framework for bringing Taiwan media executives to Beijing for meetings with senior CCP officials and state media counterparts. The summit series ran annually from 2015, with the exception of 2018, through at least 2019. Want Want China Times Media Group chairman Tsai Eng-meng (蔡衍明) led the Taiwan delegation.