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RTHK Produces Cross-Media Musical for National Security Education Day

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On June 26, 2022, Hong Kong’s public broadcaster RTHK premieredBauhinia in Bloom — Cross-Media Musical Performance (紫荊花開—跨媒體音樂匯演), a 70-minute, five-act production commissioned by the Hong Kong Special Administrative Region’s Committee for Safeguarding National Security to mark 2022’s National Security Education Day. Composed, written, and directed by Mei Kwong-chiu (梅廣釗), chairman of the Federation of Hong Kong Composers and a member of the China Musicians Association, a mainland state-affiliated body, the performance involved more than 170 performers, including the Hong Kong Chinese Orchestra, the Hong Kong Dance Company, and several lion dance and martial arts troupes, and used orchestral, choral, and dance elements to narrate what the Committee’s event page described as the “significant historical development of the motherland and Hong Kong over the past century,” promoting the “holistic national security outlook” (總體國家安全觀). That page confirms the program “was produced by RTHK.” National Security Education Day has been co-organized since 2021 by Hong Kong’s national security committee together with the Central People’s Government’s Liaison Office in Hong Kong and the central government’s Office for Safeguarding National Security, both directly named as supporting organizers in official announcements of the event.

Xinhua Renews Media Cooperation MOU with Thailand PRD

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On July 20, 2026, Xinhua News Agency signed a memorandum of understanding with Thailand’s Public Relations Department (PRD), a body under the Prime Minister’s Office responsible for state public relations, aimed at strengthening cooperation in media operations management, digital transformation, and AI applications, according to a report by Xinhua. The signing was one of three parallel media MOUs the PRD concluded that day, alongside the People’s Daily and China Media Group, as part of a package of 15 agreements marking the close of Thai Prime Minister Anutin Charnvirakul’s official visit to China, witnessed by Anutin and Chinese Premier Li Qiang at the Great Hall of the People. The agreement builds on a cooperation relationship dating to a first MOU signed in November 2019 and renewed in 2025. In an April 2026 meeting with Xinhua President Fu Hua, PRD Director-General Sudruetai Lertkasem proposed developing PRD into a “national information hub” modeled on Xinhua’s structure and invited Xinhua personnel to serve as advisors to the department.

VGTRK and CMG Sign Documentary Cooperation Memorandum

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On May 8, 2025, during Chinese President Xi Jinping’s state visit to Russia, which coincided with Moscow’s commemoration of the 80th anniversary of the Soviet victory in World War II, the All-Russia State Television and Radio Broadcasting Company (VGTRK) and China Media Group (中央廣播電視總台), or CMG, signed a memorandum on deepening cooperation, according to the Kremlin’s official list of documents signed and adopted that day. The agreement was one of 28 such documents, which also included two joint statements on strategic partnership and global stability, and a cluster of other Russia-China media memoranda signed the same day involving National Media Group, RT, Rossiya Segodnya, and Lomonosov Moscow State University. The Kremlin’s published list does not detail the VGTRK-CMG agreement’s specific provisions beyond its general subject.

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.

China Media Group Launches Program Showcase in Lima

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On October 30, 2024, the China Media Group (CMG), the state-run media conglomerate directly under the Chinese Communist Party’s Central Propaganda Department, launched a program showcase in Lima, a promotional event to introduce approximately 20 Spanish-language productions. These include documentaries on Xi Jinping’s signature Belt and Road Initiative, China’s global development and infrastructure push, and a series on a series on Chinese-style modernization — the latter a key part of political framing since the 20th National Congress of the CCP in October 2020. The lineup, which also includes dramas, will be broadcast on Peru’s state-run IRTP and Panamericana Television. Shen Haixiong (慎海雄), CMG president and a deputy head of the Central Propaganda Department, and Gustavo Adrianzén, Peru’s prime minister, both delivered video remarks, with Shen describing the initiative as presenting a “trustworthy, lovable and respectable” China. The showcase fell two weeks before Xi Jinping’s state visit to Lima for the APEC summit, where China inaugurated the 3.6 billion-dollar Port of Chancay and signed an upgraded free trade agreement with Peru.

CMG Signs Deal with Two Peruvian Media

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On November 20, 2024, América TV and the newspaper El Comercio signed a collaboration agreement with China Media Group (中央廣播電視總台), or CMG, the media conglomerate under China’s Central Propaganda Department. The agreement aims to “produce content that appeals to both Peruvian and Chinese audiences,” according to Fernando Muñiz Bethancourt, CEO of América Multimedia. The collaboration includes program exchange, joint production, technology innovation, and personnel training. Specific projects mentioned in the announcement include news exchange, joint film production, joint content broadcasting, and personnel exchange and training. The agreement was signed during the Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation (APEC) summit in Lima, which took place from November 13-16, 2024. The Chinese delegation was led by Shen Haixiong (慎海雄), the president and editor-in-chief of CMG, who concurrently serves as a deputy director of the Central Propaganda Department.

China and Portugal Launch Media Platform

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On May 23, 2025, the Nanfang Media Group (南方報業傳媒集團), a Guangzhou-based state media conglomerate under the provincial CCP Committee, jointly launched a media platform in Lisbon with Guangdong’s South International Communication Center (南方國際傳播中心) and the China-Portugal Chamber of Commerce and Industry. The South International Communication Center editor-in-chief stated that the “Greater Bay Area Chinese-Portuguese Media Content Platform” would collaborate with Portuguese media and think tanks to disseminate “stories of Chinese-style modernization” (中國式現代化故事) as well as stories of China-Portugal cooperation to Portuguese-speaking audiences. The Chinese Ambassador to Portugal attended the event, saying that the platform could help introduce China to Portuguese-speaking countries and vice versa. According to state media reporting, representatives from Iris FM and Global Media Group also participated. 

CMG Signs Animation Cooperation with RTP

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In August 2023, officials from China Media Group visited Portugal’s public broadcaster, RTP (Rádio e Televisão de Portugal), to formalize cooperation on the animated series “O Panda e o Galo” (The Panda and the Rooster), featuring a Portuguese Barcelos rooster and a Chinese panda. During the ceremony, a Letter of Intent was signed between RTP and CMG’s children’s programming department for potential future cooperation projects. The Chinese Ambassador to Portugal characterized the partnership as an opportunity to “strengthen friendship between the two peoples.” The 52-episode animation series aired as part of CMG’s broader initiative featuring international panda-related co-productions with multiple countries, including Russia, New Zealand, and South Africa.

Lancang-Mekong Cooperation Summit 2018

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The Lao Ministry of Information, Culture and Tourism and China’s state-run People’s Daily (人民日報) co-hosted the Lancang-Mekong River Cooperation Media Summit (瀾滄江—湄公河合作媒體峰會) in Vientiane from July 1-3, 2018. The meeting was held under the theme “Cooperation in Lancang-Mekong Community for a Bright Future” and gathered senior officials and media representatives from six countries along the river system: Laos, China, Cambodia, Myanmar, Thailand and Vietnam. The summit focused on evaluating the implementation of a joint declaration signed in Beijing the previous year and strengthening cooperation in media, particularly in new media and tourism promotion. The Lancang-Mekong Cooperation initiative, established in 2015 by China with the five Mekong countries, represents a multilateral framework for regional cooperation.