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Activity Type: Media Summit

Chinese Consulate General in Rio de Janeiro Hosts Media Dialogue Session

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On December 9, 2025, the Chinese Consulate General in Rio de Janeiro held a media dialogue session titled “China’s Governance and China-Brazil Cooperation,” as reported by People’s Daily. Consul General Tian Min (田敏) and consular officials gave presentations explaining the significance of the Fourth Plenary Session of the 20th CPC Central Committee, a major Communist Party leadership meeting held in October 2025 that adopted recommendations for China’s 15th Five-Year Plan (2026–2030). The session also served as a platform for the Party’s messaging on Taiwan, with officials instructing media on “correctly understanding and viewing the Taiwan issue” (正確認識看待台灣問題). Discussions also covered China-Brazil political trust, trade, and cultural exchange. The session was described as having a “friendly and harmonious atmosphere” (氣氛友好融洽) by People’s Daily. Brazilian media attendees included representatives from the daily O Globo, financial newspaper Valor Econômico, political news website Brasil 247, and three other outlets; Chinese media participants included People’s Daily, Xinhua News Agency, and China Media Group.

Annual Reception for Chinese Media and Japanese Corporations held by Keizai Koho Center

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On December 4, 2024, the Keizai Koho Center (經濟廣報中心), the international communications arm of Keidanren (經團連), Japan’s most influential business lobby, hosted its annual reception for Chinese media correspondents and Japanese corporate representatives in Tokyo. Held yearly since 2005, the event was paused during the COVID-19 pandemic and resumed in 2022. According to KKC, over 70 attendees participated, including 45 journalists from 24 Chinese media outlets such as China Media Group (中央廣播電視總台), Xinhua News Agency (新華通訊社), and People’s Daily (人民日報). KKC Senior Managing Director Ryo Watanabe referenced the November 2024 Japan-China summit in Peru, at which Prime Minister Ishiba and President Xi reaffirmed their commitment to “constructive and stable” bilateral relations.

China-Cyprus-Europe Media Forum

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The China-Cyprus-Europe Media Forum was held from October 21-23, 2025, in Nicosia, Cyprus. According to a report from the official China News Service, the forum was organized by the China Media Group (中央广播电视总) and the Chinese Embassy in Cyprus, along with the Cyprus Broadcasting Corporation (塞浦路斯广播电视公司), the Cyprus Mail (塞浦路斯邮报), and the government-run Xinhua News Agency (新华社). More than 100 representatives from the media, government, diplomatic missions, universities, think tanks, and enterprises attended. The Chinese Ambassador said that he hoped participants would “deepen exchanges” and “tell stories of China-Cyprus friendship well” — language reflecting the Chinese Communist Party’s emphasis on “telling China’s story well” (講好中國故事), a core propaganda directive under Xi Jinping aimed at shaping international narratives about China. Cooperation between China and Cyprus, China-EU relations, media responsibilities, and the role of AI in media development were the main topics of the forum. The event released a declaration calling for the media to build “a community with a shared future for humanity” — this being a signature foreign policy concept introduced by Xi Jinping, and suggesting that the document was drafted by China’s Ministry of Foreign Affairs. The forum was timed ahead of the 55th anniversary of China-Cyprus diplomatic relations and Cyprus’s EU Council presidency in 2026.

Fourth Cross-Strait Media Summit Held in Beijing

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The Fourth Cross-Strait Media Summit (第四屆兩岸媒體人北京峰會) was held in Beijing on May 10, 2019, co-organized by Beijing Daily Group (北京日報報業集團) and Want Want China Times Media Group (旺旺中時媒體集團). Nearly seventy Taiwan media organizations sent representatives, led by Want Want Holdings (旺旺集團) chairman Tsai Eng-meng (蔡衍明). CPPCC chairman and Politburo Standing Committee member Wang Yang (汪洋) received the Taiwan delegation in a closed-door session, directing those present that achieving peaceful unification and one country two systems required the efforts of media colleagues, and mocking Taiwan’s government as unable to guarantee its situation two years hence. Wang Yang further stated that Taiwan independence advocates were mistaken to rely on the United States, which would not go to war with China over Taiwan. The remarks were recorded and leaked the following day, triggering a public controversy in Taiwan. Taiwan President Tsai Ing-wen (蔡英文) convened a national security meeting the same morning the summit took place; the Foreign Ministry and National Security Bureau both issued statements condemning the CCP’s interference in Taiwan’s press freedom. Xinhua News Agency’s dispatch on Wang Yang’s remarks omitted the statements about Taiwan’s government and the United States entirely. The incident was reported by The News Lens and [Up Media](https://www.upmedia.mg/newsinfo.php?Type=24&SerialNo=63014)_.

CCP and Nuevas Ideas Party Host Media and Think Tank Exchange

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On April 8, 2024, Liu Jianchao (劉建超), Minister of the International Department of the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) Central Committee, met in Beijing with a high-level delegation from El Salvador’s ruling party, Nuevas Ideas, led by Vice President-elect Félix Ulloa. During the meeting, Liu emphasized that the CCP is willing to “promote exchanges and cooperation” between the counterpart departments of the two parties, specifically highlighting media and think tanks as key areas for collaboration. This engagement aimed to institutionalize the sharing of “experience in party building and state governance” to ensure the stable development of bilateral relations. The meeting official report by the International Department of the CCP underscores a strategic shift toward direct party-to-party coordination to align the communication apparatus of Nuevas Ideas with the ideological and media frameworks of the CCP.

Want Want China Times Media Group Delegation Visits Beijing Daily Group

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Want Want Holdings (旺旺集團) and Want Want China Times Media Group (旺旺中時媒體集團) chairman Tsai Eng-meng (蔡衍明) led a delegation to Beijing Daily Group (北京日報報業集團) on July 6, 2016, meeting with Beijing Daily Group president Fu Hua (傅華) and holding a joint working session. The two sides agreed to jointly organize the Second Cross-Strait Media Summit (第二屆兩岸媒體人北京峰會) in Beijing later that year, focusing on cross-strait youth exchange and industrial cooperation. Beijing CCP Committee Secretary and Politburo member Guo Jinlong (郭金龍) separately received the Want Want China Times delegation — including Tsai Eng-meng, former Taichung mayor and Want Want China Times Media Group vice chairman Hu Chih-chiang (胡志強), and Want Want Media Group president Tsai Shao-chung (蔡紹中) — and expressed the Beijing Municipal CCP Committee’s full support for cross-strait media cooperation, urging the two sides to develop the summit into the premier cross-strait media communication platform. At the session, Tsai Eng-meng said Want Want Group was considering establishing a cross-strait youth entrepreneurship and exchange park in Beijing. The visit was reported by Want News, a Want Want China Times subsidiary publication.

First Cross-Strait Media Summit Held in Beijing

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The First Cross-Strait Media Summit (第一屆兩岸媒體人北京峰會) was held in Beijing in late 2015, co-organized by Beijing Daily Group (北京日報報業集團) and Want Want China Times Media Group (旺旺中時媒體集團). The summit was the inaugural event in an annual series established under the strategic cooperation agreement the two groups signed in late 2014, providing a recurring institutional framework for bringing Taiwan media executives to Beijing for meetings with senior CCP officials and state media counterparts. The summit series ran annually from 2015, with the exception of 2018, through at least 2019. Want Want China Times Media Group chairman Tsai Eng-meng (蔡衍明) led the Taiwan delegation.

Third Cross-Strait Media Summit Held in Beijing

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The Third Cross-Strait Media Summit (第三屆兩岸媒體人北京峰會) was held in Beijing in December 2017, themed around the thirtieth anniversary of cross-strait journalism exchange. Taiwan Affairs Office (國台辦) and Taiwan Work Office of the CCP Central Committee (中共中央台灣工作辦公室) director Zhang Zhijun (張志軍) attended and addressed the gathering. Want Want Holdings (旺旺集團) and Want Want China Times Media Group (旺旺中時媒體集團) chairman Tsai Eng-meng (蔡衍明) and Want Want China Times Media Group vice chairman Hu Chih-chiang (胡志強) both attended. The summit was co-organized by Beijing Daily Group (北京日報報業集團) and Want Want China Times Media Group, as reported by The News Lens.

2018 China-Latin America Media Forum

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The 2018 China-Latin America Media Forum took place in Buenos Aires, Argentina on November 19, 2018, focusing on “Deepening Media Cooperation to Help Build a China-Latin America Community with a Shared Future,” according to Xinhua News Agency. Representatives discussed media’s role in bilateral cooperation and new media platforms. Xinhua reported that a Brazilian representative from a financial information group claimed that media plays an “incomparable role” in cooperation, allowing audiences to receive “first-hand information” rather than filtered news from Europe and the United States, language that closely mirrors Chinese state media talking points about Western media bias—as reported by Xinhua. Alejandro Ramos Esquivel (亞歷杭德羅·拉莫斯·埃斯基維爾), who served as Notimex’s Director-General from 2013-2018, reportedly stated the forum brought together diverse media organizations to analyze cooperation trends, predicting collaboration would “flourish” as China’s “Belt and Road Initiative” gains influence. The event highlighted opportunities in website development and capacity building.