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Activity Type: Media Cooperation Agreement

Chongqing ICC Opens Bridging News Bureau in Kuala Lumpur

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On July 30, 2026, the Chongqing-based Western China International Communication Organization (西部國際傳播中心), or WCICO — formerly the Chongqing International Communication Center (重慶國際傳播中心), China’s first provincial-level center for state-led external propaganda — unveiled the Kuala Lumpur bureau of Bridging News (陸海財經). Alongside iChongqing, Bridging News is a core WCICO brand for what China’s leadership calls “external propaganda” (外宣), with accounts on Facebook and YouTube. WCICO opened the bureau with the Center for Advanced Studies and Research, or CASR, which characterizes itself as a non-partisan Malaysian think tank. WCICO deputy general manager Sang Jian (桑建) and CASR director of Chinese studies Teah Wuen Khai presided over the launch at the 2026 Land-Sea Economic Forum (陸海財經論壇). WCICO hosted the forum under the guidance of Chongqing’s government information office, which was led by a deputy propaganda chief. The forum drew nearly 200 Chinese and Malaysian participants. The bureau joined WCICO partner stations in Italy, Peru, Brazil, and Singapore. On September 15, 2026, a CASR commentary promoting western China’s development linked repeatedly to iChongqing sources. WCICO also circulated its account of the forum through PR Newswire. WCICO, launched in 2023 by the propaganda office of the Chongqing CCP Committee, is operated by the Chongqing Daily News Group (重慶日報報業集團). WCICO’s 2024 restructuring plan had called for staging the forum with the state-controlled CITIC Press Group (中信出版集團), and for making Bridging News a “mobile portal” for western China’s opening.

SCMP and Nanfang Media Group Sign Strategic Partnership at Asia Pacific Forum in Shenzhen

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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 provincial authorities have called “the main platform for Guangdong’s external communication.” Huang Can (黄灿), editor-in-chief of the Nanfang Media Group, stated that the two outlets would work together to tell “stories of the Guangdong-Hong Kong-Macao Greater Bay Area and China,” a phrasing that reflects the Party’s formal directive to “tell China a story well” or to present a positive and favorable image of China to the international public. SCMP’s publisher Tammy Tam framed the deal around next year’s 30th anniversary of what she called Hong Kong’s “return to the motherland,” the 1997 transfer of sovereignty of Hong Kong from the United Kingdom to China.

CMG and Kyrgyz National TV Sign Cultural Exchange Letter of Intent

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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. The CMG partnership with KTRK is part of China’s broader efforts to strengthen SCO media cooperation.

Khovar News Agency and People’s Daily Sign MoU

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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 Jinping, titled “Working Together for a Brighter Tomorrow of China-Tajikistan Relations” (共創中塔關係美好明天), was published by the Khovar News Agency and the government-owned Narodnaya Gazeta newspaper, outlining a “new blueprint” for China-Tajik relations framed by the countries’ shared border and historic connection via the Silk Road.

China Media Group and Kazakh President’s TV and Radio Complex Signed a Memorandum of Understanding on Content Sharing

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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 Kazakhstan President’s TV as part of the China-Kazakhstan Permanent Comprehensive Strategic Partnership (中哈永久全面戰略夥伴關係). Kazakhstan President’s TV and CMG also signed a cooperation agreement to develop a singing competition gathering contestants from Central Asia and China called “Silk Way Star” (絲路之星), planned to air on Chinese and Kazakh television channels.

China Media Group and Khabar Agency Sign Memorandum of Understanding on Content Sharing

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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 Permanent Comprehensive Strategic Partnership (中哈永久全面戰略夥伴關係) initially signed in 2019. This MoU was one of three agreements signed between CMG and Kazakh media during the summit.

CMG and Visit Finland Sign Cooperation Agreement

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On January 27, 2026, during a visit of Finland’s prime mInister visit to China, the tourism-promotion platform Visit Finland, an office under the country’s government agency for trade and investment promotion, signed a cooperation agreement for content production, project planning, and event organization with the state-run media conglomerate China Media Group. The agreement sought to promote what Chinese state media refer to as “people-to-people exchange” between the two countries, this being a recurring term that Chinese leader Xi Jinping uses to signal what China regards as a cornerstone of diplomacy — the contact between Chinese citizens and foreign publics. The agreement was signed by CMG President Shen Haixiong (慎海雄) and a representative of the Finnish Embassy in Beijing, and it was one of several deals signed during the visit that produced 11 business agreements between Chinese and Finnish companies, as well as multiple government-to-government memoranda of understanding.

Hong Kong Gonggong News Agency Signs Cooperation Agreement with Radio Mandarin d’Europe

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On November 28, 2025, Gonggong News Agency, a privately operating news service with connections to Hong Kong and Guangdong province and apparently close affiliations with the government of Uganda, signed a cooperation agreement in Hong Kong with Radio Mandarin d’Europe (欧洲华语广播电台), a Paris-based Mandarin language broadcaster. Both media agreed to cooperate in areas such as content sharing and joint talent development. During the signing ceremony, Gong Guolin (龚国林), the executive deputy director of Gonggong News Agency, said the media’s mission is to facilitate global communication. Radio Mandarin d’Europe Director Xie Nailong (谢乃龙), who is also the founder of the Rome Chinese Cultural Center Association (罗马中国文化中心), or Associazione Centro Cultura Cinese di Roma, a center promoting Chinese culture in Italy, also emphasized the broadcaster’s commitment to “tell China’s story well” (讲好中国故事), a direct echo of the Chinese Communist Party’s (CCP) policy under Xi Jinping for external propaganda. 

Guizhou Media Group Signs MOU with Tavuli News

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On June 27, 2026, the Guizhou Daily Convergent Media Group (贵州日报当代融媒体集团有限责任公司), an entity full controlled by provincial government in Guizhou, signed a memorandum of cooperation with Tavuli News, a privately-owned news outlet in the Solomon Islands. Attending the event, Li Weihong (李卫红), the editor-in-chief of Guizhou Daily (贵州日报), the flagship newspaper of the Guizhou provincial committee of the Chinese Communist Party (CCP), welcomed the delegation from the Solomon Islands and expressed the hope for “normalized relations” between the two sides. According to a read-out from the Tavuli News, which referred to its partner as the “Guizhou Today Convergent Media Group,” the partnership “establishes a framework for cooperation in news exchanges, joint reporting, journalist exchanges and professional development.” The agreement, which reportedly has a duration of three years, also expresses the intent to form a young journalist exchange program and to pursue multimedia reporting on “topics of mutual interest.” Registration listings in China shows that Guizhou Today Convergent Media Group is fully held by the State-owned Assets Supervision and Administration Commission (SASAC) of the People’s Government of Guizhou Province (贵州省人民政府国有资产监督管理委员会), the body that administers state-owned enterprises.