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Activity Category: Media Engagement Activity

CICG Promotes Spanish Edition of Xi Jinping Book in Madrid

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On October 6, 2026, the China International Communications Group (中國外文局), or CICG, and the Chinese Embassy in Spain held a readers’ event in Madrid for the Spanish edition of the fifth volume of Xi Jinping: The Governance of China (習近平談治國理政), a collection of Xi’s speeches distributed abroad in dozens of languages as external propaganda. Chinese Ambassador Yao Jing (姚敬) said “Chinese modernization” (中國式現代化), a catchphrase Xi has promoted since 2021 to cast China’s development path as an alternative to Western models, was creating opportunities for Spain. He also urged building a “community of shared future for mankind” (人類命運共同體). CICG Vice President Xie Gang (謝剛) said the book would help readers “understand the Communist Party of China.” José Luis Centella, president of the Communist Party of Spain (西班牙共產黨), praised China’s “high-quality development,” and Marta Montoro of the Fundación Cátedra China (西班牙知華講堂基金會) also spoke. A Chinese-language report in China Today, a CICG-run magazine, said the event aimed to spread the CCP’s “innovative theory” in the Spanish-speaking world.

CCP Journalist Association Launches Belt and Road Journalists Network

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On September 28, 2019, 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, launched the Belt and Road Journalists Network (一帶一路記者組織合作平台) at the 2019 Belt and Road Journalists Forum in Beijing. According to China Daily, the ACJA initiated the network jointly with journalist groups in Belt and Road Initiative countries, with the stated purpose of promoting a “Silk Road spirit” (絲路精神) of “win-win results.” Its first presidium, with a five-year term and an annually rotating chair, drew together journalist associations and unions from China, Russia, Kazakhstan, Indonesia, Argentina and Nigeria. Lidia Fagale, president of the Union of Press Workers of Buenos Aires (Unión de Trabajadores de Prensa de Buenos Aires), became the first chair. Jiang Jianguo (蔣建國), deputy head of the Central Propaganda Department, urged participants to deliver “positive energy,” a phrase closely tied to media control under Xi Jinping. Shanaka Maliyadda of the Sri Lanka China Journalists Forum told the paper that the “ACJA is also helping us with media development in many aspects.”

ACJA Delegation Visits Nigeria’s Leadership Newspaper

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In May 2024, a delegation from 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 Abuja head office of Leadership Group Limited, publisher of the Nigerian daily Leadership. The delegation was led by ACJA Executive Secretary Wu Xu (吳旭) and accompanied by Christopher Isiguzo, president of the Nigeria Union of Journalists, which had signed a memorandum with the ACJA earlier that day. According to the paper’s own report, Isiguzo said the two unions sought the group’s collaboration because of “the deep relationship China enjoys” with the paper. Wu praised Leadership on its 20th anniversary and invited its staff to China. Managing Editor Raliat Ahmed-Yusuf thanked the Chinese government for collaboration conducted through its embassy in Nigeria. She said this included publishing content from China across all of the group’s titles and platforms, with dedicated features in Leadership Hausa titled “Daga Sin” and “Babban Bango” (“The Great Wall”). She said the arrangement had helped promote Chinese culture and showcase China’s infrastructure development and investments in Nigeria.

ACJA and Nigeria Union of Journalists Sign Memorandum

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In May 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, signed a memorandum of understanding with the Nigeria Union of Journalists at the union’s national secretariat in Abuja. NUJ President Christopher Isiguzo said the agreement, which he described as signed “on behalf of every journalist in Nigeria,” would bring exchange visits and training programs. He said Nigerian journalists would attend a forum in China that August “courtesy of the MoU.” That was the ACJA’s Belt and Road Journalists Forum in Chongqing, where the association launched its International Home of Journalists program for foreign journalist organizations. Wu Xu (吳旭), the ACJA executive secretary who led the Chinese delegation, said the agreement would “promote cooperation and friendship.” The memorandum’s terms were not made public. The NUJ has held a seat on the presidium of the ACJA-led Belt and Road Journalists Network since 2019, and Isiguzo served as the network’s chairman-in-office in 2023.

ACJA Leads Chinese and Greek Reporters to Piraeus Port

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On May 21, 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, organized a joint reporting visit by more than 20 Chinese and Greek journalists to the port of Piraeus. The visit was reported by South, the external propaganda brand of Guangdong’s South International Communication Center (南方國際傳播中心), part of the provincial Nanfang Media Group (南方報業傳媒集團), which sent its own representative on the trip. The port is operated by a subsidiary of China’s state-owned shipping giant COSCO Shipping (中國遠洋海運集團), and Chinese officials promote it as a flagship Belt and Road Initiative project. Su Xudong, president of the Piraeus Port Authority, and other executives briefed the delegation on the port’s development, its plans for cruise tourism, and its green and digital transformation. South reported that the visit enhanced “international understanding” of the port as a showcase of China-Greece cooperation. The visit took place alongside the China–Greece Media Think Tank Dialogue Roundtable in Athens, which the ACJA co-hosted that day with the Chinese School of Classical Studies at Athens. Greek participants in the roundtable included the Journalists’ Union of Athens Daily Newspapers, the Athens-Macedonian News Agency and the public broadcaster ERT. Two days earlier, the ACJA’s International Department had held a similar roundtable in Madrid.

ACJA and Chinese Embassy Host Rwandan Journalists

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From June 21 to 28, 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 Embassy of the People’s Republic of China in Rwanda hosted an African media delegation in China. The delegation included staff of Rwanda’s Kigali Today Ltd., according to a first-person account by Antoinette Mutoni, published by Kigali Today’s English-language outlet KT Press and republished by the Belt and Road Journalists Network. Mutoni described the trip as “a living testament” to a long-standing partnership between Kigali Today and the Chinese embassy. The ACJA’s “Home of Journalists” program presented the trip as giving reporters from Ethiopia and Rwanda close access to China’s tech industry. The delegation toured technology firms in Shanghai, including Alibaba Group and STAR Vision Space Technology, before continuing to Zhejiang and Sichuan. On June 24, the journalists took part in a China-Africa Media Roundtable. Mutoni wrote that she came away convinced of journalists’ role in reinforcing China-Africa friendship. The account as republished retains a stray line describing the text as a cleaner, more polished version of the author’s original, an apparent leftover editing note.

ACJA Hosts Foreign Media for China-CEE Media Roundtable in Dunhuang

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On May 29, 2026, the “Home of Journalists” program 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 a media roundtable in Dunhuang, in China’s Gansu province, for journalists, experts and scholars from China and 12 Central and Eastern European countries. Participants included Dejan Jazvić, editor-in-chief of the Federal News Agency of Bosnia and Herzegovina; Maria Nikolaeva Nishandzhieva of the Bulgarian newspaper 24 Hours; Jan Klokočovnik of the Slovenian newspaper Primorske novice; and Ana Maria Alessandra Dobra, a prime-time anchor at Romania’s Realitatea Plus, according to a Xinhua report. The roundtable focused on the media’s role in “mutual learning among civilizations” (文明交流互鑒), the language of Xi Jinping’s Global Civilization Initiative. The ACJA held a similar China-CEE roundtable in Hebei province in 2023, where participants praised the initiative’s significance. China Dailyquoted a Romanian television host on the trip as saying China “is a country that respects its own people.” It reported that the visiting journalists hoped to tell their audiences about a “true, diverse and multidimensional” China, echoing Xi’s 2021 call to present a “true, multidimensional and panoramic” China to the world. The ACJA has also co-organized CEE journalists’ visits to China with the China-CEEC Cooperation Secretariat.

Ganzhou Forum Expands ACJA Journalist Network

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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) organized the event, and the Ganzhou government issued the forum’s English-language press release internationally. About 100 heads of journalist organizations and media representatives from more than 50 countries and regions attended, under the official theme “Promoting Civilizations Dialogue and Global Modernization with Power of Journalists” (新聞力量·文明對話·推動世界現代化). Wang Gang (王綱), deputy head of the Central Propaganda Department, addressed the forum. In his keynote, ACJA President He Ping (何平) called on media to promote the “common values of all humanity” (全人類共同價值), a formulation advanced by Xi Jinping as an alternative to universal values. The forum was held under the Belt and Road Journalists Network (一帶一路記者組織合作平台), whose rotating chair, Andrey Krivosheev of the Belarusian Union of Journalists, urged journalists to help build a “community with a shared future for mankind” (人類命運共同體), Xi’s signature foreign policy slogan. Journalist organizations from 11 countries received certificates admitting them to the ACJA’s International Home of Journalists (國際記者之家). They included Brazil’s National Federation of Journalists, which agreed to host visiting journalists from the network in Brazil. The forum also launched an International Home of Journalists volunteer program and set up a Belt and Road journalists’ station in Jiangxi to host foreign reporters. Before the forum, foreign participants toured five Jiangxi cities, including Nanchang and Jingdezhen, on organized reporting trips that featured dialogues with local Party secretaries and mayors. China-Latin America and China-EU journalist roundtables were held on the sidelines.

ACJA Hosts 2026 China-Kazakhstan Media Roundtable

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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 the China-Kazakhstan “permanent comprehensive strategic partnership” (中哈永久全面戰略夥伴關係), which the two countries announced in 2019. According to China News Service, several Chinese media representatives proposed initiatives to foster collaboration between media and universities, though the report did not detail them. The roundtable also awarded certificates to five Chinese and five Kazakh journalists as “volunteers” (志願者) of the ACJA’s “International Home of Journalists” (國際記者之家), a network the ACJA launched in 2024 to recruit foreign journalist associations. The volunteer program was launched at the 2025 Belt and Road Journalists Forum in Ganzhou, with volunteers tasked with developing news exchanges and collaboration. Chinese participants included representatives of China Media Group, the China Internet Information Center, China Petroleum Daily, Shandong Radio and Television, and Gansu Broadcasting Group, according to China News Service.