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Activity Type: Media Cooperation Agreement

Zhejiang Media Group Signs Content Sharing Agreement with Barcelona Public Broadcaster

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On September 9, 2019, officials from Zhejiang Media Group (浙江廣播電視集團), a state-owned Chinese broadcaster, and Barcelona’s publicly owned broadcaster Betevé signed a cooperation agreement under which Zhejiang’s broadcaster would supply documentaries to Betevé while Betevé would provide Spanish-produced content to Zhejiang television. The agreement, titled “Beautiful Zhejiang, Vibrant Barcelona,” was signed in Barcelona and also involved the Barcelona Chinese Education Foundation (巴塞羅那中文教育基金會), known in Spanish as “Any Nou Xinès amb Barcelona,” which assisted in producing a related program segment. Attendees included Zhu Guoxian (朱國賢), a Zhejiang Provincial Party Committee Standing Committee member and propaganda chief, and China’s consul general in Barcelona, Lin Nan (林楠). Betevé’s director, Sergi Vicente, said the partnership would “promote Chinese and Western culture” (弘揚中西方文化), echoing standard formulations from Chinese official political discourse.

Xinhua News Agency Signs Agreement With Televisao de Mocambique

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On April 21, 2026, China’s state agency, Xinhua, signed a news exchange and cooperation agreement with Televisão de Moçambique (TVM), Mozambique’s government-funded national public broadcaster, during Mozambican President Daniel Francisco Chapo’s state visit to Beijing. According to Xinhua, the agreement covers the exchange of news content and personnel visits between the two outlets. The agreement was included on the official outcomes list of President Chapo’s state visit to Beijing.

Xinhua Signs Agreement With Gabinete de Informacao

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On April 21, 2026, Xinhua News Agency, China’s state news agency, signed a Memorandum of Understanding with Mozambique’s Gabinete de Informação (莫桑比克國家新聞辦公室), whose functions include government information release and coordination between government departments and media. The signing took place during Mozambican President Daniel Francisco Chapo’s state visit to China and was listed on the official outcomes of the visit. According to Xinhua, the MOU aimed to strengthen news communication cooperation and jointly develop a high-level forum mechanism for media think tanks from Global South countries, with the stated goal of improving what Xinhua described as “the effectiveness of information dissemination across the Global South” — framing that positions Xinhua as a central node in shaping information flows through partner state institutions across the region.

Buryatia Government Delegation Visits Inner Mongolia

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A delegation from the government of the Republic of Buryatia (布里亞特共和國), a federal republic of Russia located in Eastern Siberia, renowned as a spiritual center of Buddhism in Russia, visited China’s Inner Mongolia Autonomous Region from April 27-30, 2026, for talks on news and media cooperation. The trip was led by Ivan Sergeevich Loginov, chairman of the Information Policy Committee of the Administration of the Head of the Republic of Buryatia. According to a report from Inner Mongolia Daily (內蒙古日報), the delegation toured the Inner Mongolia Art Theatre, the Inner Mongolia Museum, and the offices of Inner Mongolia Daily and Inner Mongolia Radio and Television, including the latter’s international communication and “media convergence” (融媒體) centers, an effort to combine party media outlets into single, multi-platform operations under centralized editorial control. The delegation also attended a sister-city event between Hohhot and the Buryat capital, Ulan-Ude. On April 29, the visitors held a working session with regional press and culture officials to discuss cooperation on news websites, broadcast content sharing, and translated programming. “Media exchange is an important entry point for deepening friendly cooperation between the two countries,” Loginov was quoted as saying. He called for joint projects and regular journalist exchanges to “increase mutual understanding” between the two countries — language consistent with standard Chinese Communist Party framing of bilateral cultural exchange as relationship-building rather than as a vehicle for shaping foreign perceptions of China.

China Media Group Signs Four Serbian Media Partnerships

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China Media Group (中央廣播電視總台) signed four cooperation agreements with Serbian media and cultural institutions on May 8, 2024, during Chinese President Xi Jinping’s state visit to Serbia. CMG Director and Deputy Minister of the Publicity Department Shen Haixiong (慎海雄) signed agreements with Serbia’s Presidential Media Relations Department, Politika newspaper, Radio Television of Serbia, and the Ministry of Culture. The agreements were witnessed by Xi Jinping and Serbian President Aleksandar Vučić. Officials said the agreements would promote “people-to-people exchanges” (人文交流) and contribute to building a “China-Serbia community of shared future in the new era” (新時代中塞命運共同體) through “news exchange, joint programming, and technical cooperation” (新聞信息交換、聯合制播節目、技術交流). The agreements were described as part of Xi’s state visit outcomes, with CMG cited as signing the most cooperation documents among participating institutions. Politika is Serbia’s oldest and most influential daily newspaper, founded in 1904.

China Signs Media Cooperation Deals with Ukraine

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From February 8-17, 2017, Tian Jin (田進), Deputy Diretor of China’s State Administration of Press, Publication, Radio, Film and Television (國家新聞出版廣電總局), led a Chinese broadcasting delegation to Ukraine, the UK, and Romania to strengthen bilateral media cooperation. The delegation signed a cooperation memorandum with Ukraine’s National Council of Television and Radio Broadcasting and a letter of intent with Ukraine’s National Broadcasting and Television Committee. The visit resulted in nine specific agreements covering joint productions, journalist exchanges, program broadcasting, content support, training, technical cooperation, and establishing permanent contact mechanisms. The delegation also donated Chinese films and TV programs to Ukrainian and Romanian broadcasters and witnessed the strategic cooperation agreement between Zhejiang Huace Film & TV Group and Britain’s ITV.

Myanmar Think Tank Signs Xinhua Cooperation Deal

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On August 22, the Myanmar Narrative Think Tank and Xinhua News Agency signed a cooperation agreement in Yangon under the Global South Joint Communication Partnership Program (全球南方聯合傳播夥伴計劃), a Xinhua-led initiative that claims to promote cooperation between media outlets and research institutions from developing countries. Chairman Ko Ko (高高) of the Myanmar Narrative Think Tank and Xinhua’s Yangon Bureau Chief Zhang Dongqiang (張東強) signed the agreement, with Ko Ko stating the partnership aims to “strengthen people-to-people relations” and “contribute to peace, prosperity and sustainable development.” Zhang said during the signing ceremony that the agreement reflects Xinhua’s efforts to work with organizations in the Global South to “amplify their voices on the international stage” — language echoing China’s portrayal of itself in foreign policy as a champion of developing countries.

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.

AdnKronos and Xinhua Sign MoU on News Cooperation

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In December 2017, Italian news agency AdnKronos and Xinhua News Agency (新華社) signed a cooperation agreement during the fourth World Internet Conference (世界互聯網大會) in Wuzhen, Zhejiang Province. According to a report by PrimaOnline, the agreement covered news exchange, video production, and digital interconnection between the agencies.