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Activity Category: Media Engagement Activity

Denmark and China Sign a Film Co-Production Agreement

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On May 3, 2017, Denmark signed a film co-production agreement with China during Danish Prime Minister Lars Løkke Rasmussen’s official visit to Beijing. The agreement was negotiated between China’s State Administration of Press, Publication, Radio, Film and Television (SAPPRFT) (國家新聞出版廣電總局) and the Danish Film Institute (Det Danske Filminstitut) (丹麥電影中心). Danish Film Institute CEO Henrik Bo Nielsen signed the agreement at a ceremony at the Great Hall of the People in Beijing, with Chinese Premier Li Keqiang (李克強) and Danish Prime Minister Rasmussen in attendance. The co-production agreement grants film projects access to national film support and theatrical markets in both countries. Danish films co-produced with Chinese partners would not be subject to China’s import quota of a maximum of 38 foreign films annually, instead gaining equal access to the Chinese market. Nielsen stated that the agreement “will be important to both parties, both economically and culturally” and that “encounters that take place when we exchange and cooperate on art and culture are both inspiring and necessary for mutual understanding.”

Ambassador Zhang Yanhui Publishes Signed Article in Diario El Salvador

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On January 15, 2026, the Chinese Ambassador to El Salvador, Zhang Yanhui (张艳辉), published a signed article in Diario El Salvador titled “China es un firme practicante del desarrollo verde global” (China is a firm practitioner of global green development). In the piece, Zhang promoted China’s commitment to “South-South cooperation” and the “community of shared future” between China and Latin America and the Caribbean (LAC). The article outlined five specific programs—Solidarity, Development, Peoples, Civilizations, and Peace—intended to serve as a roadmap for deepening ties with El Salvador. This placement illustrates the “borrowed boat” strategy, using a high-circulation local outlet to disseminate official Chinese Communist Party policy documents directly to the Salvadoran public.

Chinese Ambassador Criticizes EU Sanctions in Portuguese Press

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On April 26, 2021, the Chinese Ambassador to Portugal published a signed article in the Portuguese newspaper Diário de Notícias titled “Jointly Safeguard the Healthy Development of China-EU Relations” (共同維護中歐關係健康發展). In the article, the ambassador expressed “regret” over the EU sanctions targeting Chinese officials over human rights abuses in Xinjiang, saying that China only imposed counter-sanctions as a retaliatory measure, labeling the EU actions as interference in China’s internal affairs. The ambassador also discussed Portugal’s role as the EU’s rotating presidency holder in the first half of 2021 and expressed hope that Portugal would promote “objective” views of China among EU member states. The article followed the levying of joint sanctions in March 2021 by the European Union, the US, Canada and the UK against senior Chinese officials over abuses targeting the Uyghur minority in Xinjiang, which prompted Beijing to retaliate by blacklisting numerous EU lawmakers and scholars. 

Taiwan China Journalism Society and ACJA Co-Host 30th Cross-Strait University Students Journalism Camp

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The Taiwan China Journalism Society (台灣中國新聞學會) and the All-China Journalists Association (中華全國新聞工作者協會), or ACJA, co-organized the 30th Cross-Strait University Students Journalism Camp, held August 19-29, 2024, across Inner Mongolia and Beijing. Approximately 200 students from 18 universities on both sides of the strait participated, the largest cohort since the camp began in 2004. An official Chinese Communist Party-led press group that plays a key part in controls on journalism and media, the ACJA arranged visits to the official media conglomerate China Media Group (中央廣播電視總台), or CMG, which is directly under the CCP’s Central Propaganda Department; iFLYTEK (科大訊飛), the artificial intelligence firm that has been alleged to have aided surveillance operations in Xinjiang; and Peking University. The group also visited the Forbidden City, which was opened specially on a closed day at the ACJA’s arrangement. Lectures at the China National Archives of Publications and Culture were delivered by a researcher from China’s state-run Xinhua News Agency and professors from Beijing Foreign Studies University and Tsinghua University, focused on international communication strategy and what speakers described as “telling China’s story well” (講好中國故事) — a formulation that in CCP discourse refers both to tightening domestic media control and extending Chinese state influence over China’s narrative overseas. On August 26, the Taiwan Affairs Office (國務院台灣事務辦公室), or TAO — the State Council body responsible for implementing CCP policy toward Taiwan, including through what the Taiwan government and independent scholars have described as organized influence operations targeting civil society, media, and youth — hosted the camp students for a mock press conference in which a TAO spokesperson fielded questions framed around cross-strait relations. The camp’s closing ceremony featured a speech by ACJA chair Liu Siyang (劉思揚), who framed the camp as a vehicle for “national rejuvenation” (民族復興) and urged students to “promote cross-strait integration.”

Hong Kong News Executives’ Association Hosts 40th Anniversary Dinner with Taiwan’s China Journalism Society

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On April 18, 2026, the Hong Kong News Executives’ Association (新聞行政人員協會) held its 40th anniversary dinner in Hong Kong, attended by more than 400 guests including representatives from Taiwan’s China Journalism Society (台灣中國新聞學會), whom the NEA singled out by name in its account of the event in an effort to foreground PRC-framed cross-strait ties. Far from being a recognized press-related organization in Taiwan, the China Journalism Society is profiled on the website of the All-China Journalists Association (中華全國新聞工作者協會), or ACJA — the party-led body that serves as the leading instrument of CCP press and journalism control in China, managing the issuance of press cards to all journalists and administering mandatory training in Marxist journalism doctrine — alongside those of the ACJA’s own member organizations. The China Journalism Society was originally founded in Chongqing in March 1941 and revived in Taiwan in 1965. Also in attendance were Hong Kong Chief Executive John Lee Ka-chiu, Financial Secretary Paul Chan Mo-po, the secretary-general of the Central Government’s Liaison Office in Hong Kong, and a deputy commissioner of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs’ office in Hong Kong. At the dinner, Lee discussed Hong Kong’s first five-year plan and the Northern Metropolis development, and shared his personal experiences using artificial intelligence products.

Hong Kong Press and News Executives’ Associations Sign MOU with Khabar Agency in Kazakhstan

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On June 2, 2026, the Newspaper Society of Hong Kong (香港報業公會) and the Hong Kong News Executives’ Association (新職行政人員協會) signed a memorandum of understanding with Khabar Agency (哈巴爾通訊社), Kazakhstan’s state-owned broadcaster, in Astana. The signing took place during a visit to Kazakhstan by Hong Kong Chief Executive John Lee Ka-chiu (李家超), who led a high-level delegation that for the first time included representatives of Hong Kong’s press industry. Under the agreement, the parties committed to jointly promoting what they described as “accurate narratives” about their respective regions, and to facilitating professional exchanges, training programs, and journalist study visits — language that mirrors official PRC framing around Western dominance of global public opinion and the need for alternative narrative channels. The agreement was one of seven MOUs signed between Hong Kong media and public and private sector counterparts in Kazakhstan during the visit. Hong Kong’s director of information services, Tse Chun-chung (謝振中), who accompanied the delegation in his first overseas trip in that role, said the visit responded to a policy direction set out in the previous year’s Policy Address to help local media expand networks beyond Hong Kong and “tell Hong Kong’s story well” (說好香港故事) — a phrase that echoes Xi Jinping’s directive to “tell China’s story well” (講好中國故事), a formulation used in the context of both tightening domestic media control and extending Chinese state influence over China’s narrative overseas.

Xi Pens Article for Greek Newspaper Kathimerini

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On November 10, 2019, ahead of his state visit to Greece, Chinese President Xi Jinping published a signed article in the Athens-based daily Kathimerini titled “Let Wisdom of Ancient Civilizations Shine Through the Future” (讓古老文明的智慧照鑒未來). The article described China and Greece as peer “great ancient civilizations” (偉大的古老文明), citing a claim by Greek novelist Nikos Kazantzakis that “Confucius and Socrates were two masks that covered the same face of human logic” — in this way using a Greek voice to lend credibility to his claims of deep culture affinity. Xi also urged both countries to cooperate more on the Belt and Road Initiative (一带一路), China’s massive global infrastructure program, which Greece formally joined in 2018. The article closed with a mention of a push for both countries toward “a community with a shared future for mankind” (人類命運共同體), one of the Chinese Communist Party’s key slogans for foreign policy, which frames China as the architect of an alternative global order to replace the Western-led one. 

China and Greece Hold Media Dialogue Roundtable

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On May 21, 2026, the “China–Greece Media Think Tank Dialogue Roundtable” (中希媒體智庫對話圓桌會) was held at the Chinese School of Classical Studies at Athens (CSCSA), an institute of the Chinese Academy of Social Sciences (中國社會科學院), inaugurated in Athens on November 28, 2024. The event was co-hosted by the All-China Journalists Association (中華全國新聞工作者協會), or ACJA — which, according to its own constitution, operates as “a national people’s organization of the Chinese press under CCP leadership” — and the CSCSA. The ACJA also plays a critical role for the CCP in enforcing domestic controls on journalists, including mandatory training in the “Marxist View of Journalism” (馬克思主義新聞觀), a framework that prescribes CCP dominance over the press and public opinion. Representatives from the Chinese Embassy in Greece, the ACJA, and multiple Chinese media outlets attended alongside Greek organizations including the Journalists’ Union of Athens Daily Newspapers, the Athens-Macedonian News Agency, the Greek public broadcaster ERT, and the Chinese-language China–Greece Times (中希時報). Participants discussed expanding joint reporting, exchange programs, a proposed annual China–Greece journalism prize (中希新聞獎), and a shared fact-checking mechanism, while framing journalists as “guardians of truth” in an AI-driven information environment marked by “fake news” and algorithmic bias. The gathering promoted a narrative of “civilizational dialogue” and invoked the Piraeus Port project — a flagship Belt and Road Initiative (一帶一路) investment — as a symbol of bilateral ties, coinciding with the 20th anniversary of the China–Greece comprehensive strategic partnership, signed in 2006.

Grupo Lucrea Signs Cooperation with Zhejiang Provincial Government Science Body

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On May 26, 2021, Spain’s Grupo Lucrea (啟創集團), a Madrid-based Chinese-run advertising and media company with close connections with state entities in the PRC, signed a cooperation agreement with the Zhejiang Provincial International Science and Technology Exchange Center (浙江省國際科技交流中心), a provincial government body based in Zhejiang Province, China, via an online video ceremony. The agreement was signed by Grupo Lucrea chairman Wang Peng (王鵬) and the director of the Zhejiang center, Gu Jihong (顧繼紅). The two parties agreed to cooperate under a framework described as “China-Spain Overseas Chinese Talent” (中西僑智), focused on facilitating exchanges of scientific and technological achievements between Spain and Zhejiang Province, cooperation between non-governmental science and technology organizations, and the recruitment of high-level talent. The framing of overseas Chinese communities as a “bridge” for technology and talent flows between Spain and China is consistent with approaches documented in overseas talent recruitment initiatives led by the United Front Work Department.