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Activity Type: Media Summit

2024 Overseas Chinese Media Tour of Jiangxi Province

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The “Walking China, Reporting China” (行走中國·報道中國) 2024 overseas Chinese media tour of Jiangxi Province took place October 13-19, 2024, bringing together 22 senior journalists and editors from 18 countries across five continents. The event was jointly organized by the China News Service (中國新聞社), the World Chinese Media Cooperation Union (世界華文媒體合作聯盟), and the Jiangxi International Communication Center (江西國際傳播中心). Participating media included Romania’s European Overseas Chinese News (歐洲僑報), Egypt’s China Weekly (中國週報), Cambodia’s Chinese Daily (柬華日報), Indonesia’s Harian Nusantara, and Brazil-China Communication Agency (巴西巴中通訊社). Other countries represented included France, Italy, Canada, Japan, South Korea, and the Philippines. The delegation visited Lushan Mountain, the Haihun Marquis archaeological site, and China’s Imperial Examination Culture Park, exploring Jiangxi’s natural landscapes, cultural heritage, and economic development. Officials emphasized the province’s “red revolutionary history, green ecology, and ancient culture” as key narratives for overseas promotion.

Chinese Embassy and Xinhua Host Cultural Event in Tokyo

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On February 18, 2025, in Tokyo, Xinhua News Agency and China’s embassy to Japan co-hosted a media and think tank dialogue that brought together approximately 160 Chinese and Japanese representatives. Xinhua News Agency President Fu Hua (傅華) emphasized China and Japan’s “profound historical and cultural roots” and the “great potential for people-to-people and cultural exchanges,” while Chinese Ambassador to Japan Wu Jianghao (吳江浩) noted that Sino-Japanese relations were at a “critical period of improvement and development” despite “serious disagreements and differences that need to be properly managed.” At the event, Xinhua issued a think tank report titled “Promoting the Development and Progress of Human Civilization through Exchange and Mutual Learning.” Japanese participants included Japan-China Association Chairman Takeshi Noda (野田毅), Japan-China Friendship Parliamentarians’ Union Secretary General Shoichi Kondo (近藤昭一), and Tokyo Broadcasting System Holdings Chairman Takashi Sasaki (佐々木卓), who emphasized the importance of strengthening bilateral dialogue and cultural exchanges under current international circumstances.

China-Thai Media Forum

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On January 17, 2025, a Sino-Thai media cooperation forum titled “Our Golden Friendship: Joining Hands to Build a China-Thailand Community with a Shared Future Media and Think Tank Dialogue” (我们金色的友谊：携手构建中泰命运共同体媒体智库对话会) was held in Bangkok, bringing together journalists, media specialists, and think tank researchers from both countries to discuss what they characterized as the responsibility of media and think tanks in both countries to “promote mutual trust and cooperation” as China-Thailand relations approach their 50th anniversary in 2025. Former Thai Deputy Prime Minister Pinit Jarusombat (披尼) emphasized the importance of leveraging media and think tanks to “strengthen people-to-people connections” between the two nations. The forum was organized by China International Communication Group (中国外文局), or CICG, the Chinese Embassy in Thailand, and Yunnan Province’s Propaganda Office, with key attendees including Gao Anming (高岸明), Editor-in-Chief of China International Communication Group, and General Surasit Thanatthang (苏拉西·塔纳唐) from the National Research Council of Thailand. Chinese Ambassador Han Zhiqiang (韩志强) delivered a video address highlighting the bilateral partnership.