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Activity Type: Placement of PRC Party-State Content

Xi Jinping Pens Op-Ed for Tajikistan State Media

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On July 5, 2024, Khovar News Agency, Tajikistan’s official news agency, and the government-owned Narodnaya Gazeta newspaper published an op-ed by Chinese President Xi Jinping titled “Working Together for a Brighter Tomorrow of China-Tajikistan Relations” (共創中塔關係美好明天). The article outlined five points for deepening China-Tajik relations in areas from “people-to-people exchanges” to top-down governance and border security enforcement. Xi’s proposals were broadcast across Chinese government websites and circulated by official news outlets including [Xinhua](https://regional.chinadaily.com.cn/gnfccru/2024-07/05/c1002506.htm) (新華社), People’s Daily (人民日報), and the international-facing China Global Television Network (中國環球電視網). The article was published on the same day that People’s Daily, the official “[mouthpiece](https://chinamediaproject.org/theccp_dictionary/mouthpiece/)” of the Central Committee of the Chinese Communist Party, signed an MOU with Khovar News Agency to deepen cooperation in areas like content sharing and talent exchanges.

Kazakh President’s TV and Radio Complex and China Media Group Announce Joint TV Program

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On June 16, 2025, during the second China-Central Asia Summit, a diplomatic meeting between China and five Central Asian countries first held in 2023, the state-run Kazakhstan President’s TV and Radio Complex and China Media Group (中央廣播電視總台) signed an agreement to jointly produce “Silk Way Star” (絲路之星), a singing competition gathering contestants from Central Asian countries and China, planned to air on the Kazakh national Silk Way TV channel and China Global Television Network (中國國際電視台), or CGTN. Raushan Kazhibayeva, the director at Kazakhstan President’s TV and Radio Complex, and Shen Haixiong (慎海雄), CMG’s president, signed the agreement in a ceremony that was attended by both Kazakh President Kassym-Jomart Tokayev and Chinese President Xi Jinping. A report on the agreement by state-run media Kazinform noted that both parties have a history of content exchange and cooperation on projects related to the China-led Shanghai Cooperation Organization. During Xi’s visit to Kazakhstan, both media also signed a memorandum of understanding on content and technology sharing. 

Chinese Charge d’Affairs to Spain Gives Interview on China’s Coronavirus Response to Onda Cero Radio Program

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On February 24, 2020, Yao Fei (姚飛), China’s then-charge d’affairs to Spain, was interviewed by Spanish radio broadcaster Onda Cero’s program “Más de uno” (“More Than One”) about the coronavirus pandemic. Acknowledging that the virus had caused a major public health crisis in China, Yao stated in the interview that China maintained a “policy of complete transparency” in its response to the virus in response to criticisms of the Chinese government’s secrecy around the virus that had emerged both domestically and internationally. Yao gave the interview shortly after the death of Li Wenliang (李文亮), the Chinese doctor who raised early alarms among his colleagues before dying of the virus himself. Asked about Li, Yao responded that the right to disclose information resides solely with the government and that “no individual citizen has the right or freedom to disclose this type of information,” which “can cause excessive panic in society.” The charge d’affairs also commented that measures taken to curb travel and trade with China were “excessive.” 

CMG Launches Multilingual Xi Jinping Quotations Program in Kyrgyzstan

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China Media Group (中央廣播電視總台), the state broadcaster operating under the direct control of the Chinese Communist Party’s Central Propaganda Department, launched a multilingual version of its television program “Ping ‘Yu’ Jin Ren: Classical Sayings Favored by Xi Jinping” (平’語’近人──習近平喜歡的典故) at a ceremony in Bishkek on August 30, 2026. The launch coincided with Chinese President Xi Jinping’s state visit to Kyrgyzstan ahead of the Bishkek summit of the Shanghai Cooperation Organization (SCO), the regional economic and security grouping founded in 2001 by China and Russia. Kyrgyz President Sadyr Japarov sent a congratulatory letter marking the occasion of the propaganda broadcast. The program, which presents classical Chinese texts quoted by Xi in speeches and writings, began airing the same day on state and mainstream broadcasters across nine SCO member and dialogue partner states, including Kyrgyzstan’s national broadcaster, Pakistan Television Corporation, Iran’s Islamic Republic News Agency, and Russia’s Rossiyskaya Gazeta, alongside additional state outlets in Belarus, India, Kazakhstan, Tajikistan, and Uzbekistan, according to the state-run China Central Television (CCTV). CCTV said the program was designed to help SCO-region audiences “better understand Chinese culture” (讀懂中國文化) and “sense Chinese wisdom” (感知中國智慧). A brief Xinhua item on the launch also ran in the newspaper eye (報眼), the small box beside the masthead reserved for high-priority items, on page one of the People’s Daily on August 31, 2026.

Chinese Embassy in Romania Publishes Special Edition on Poverty Reduction on Curierul National

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On May 20, 2021, the Chinese Embassy in Romania published a four-page special edition on the efforts of the Chinese Communist Party to reduce poverty in China, in cooperation with the daily Romanian-language newspaper Curierul Național. The edition theme was based on the 2021 White Paper “China’s Practices in Poverty Reduction and Human Rights” (人類減貧的中國實踐), which promoted the narrative of the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) on its national campaign to eradicate poverty, which was one of the leadership’s core propaganda narratives that year. As part of this special edition, the Chinese ambassador to Romania also published an article where he said that the CCP’s eradication of extreme poverty in China was achieved 10 years ahead of the schedule outlined in the UN 2030 Agenda for poverty eradication. However, independent data from the World Bank show that China’s own poverty line was just above the world’s poorest threshold. But in 2021, roughly 240 million people in China were still living below the poverty line for middle-income countries as defined by the World Bank.

Chinese Embassy in Sweden Personnel Publish Article on Europe and China Relations

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On January 15, 2026, Wan Degang (萬德剛), Chargé d’Affaires ad interim of the Chinese Embassy in Sweden, published a signed article in Stockholm-based online outlet NewsVoice urging greater cooperation between China and Europe as “the world is facing more pronounced instability and uncertainty.” In a clear reference to the United States, the article mentions the situation in Venezuela as well as “the uncertain future of Greenland.” The article, titled “Crossing Mountains and Seas, Beauty in Harmony: China and Europe Join Hands to Build a Community with a Shared Future for Mankind” (跨越山海，美美與共：中歐攜手共建人類命運共同體), makes a clear reference to the “shared future” foreign policy language of Chinese leader Xi Jinping, which frames CCP principles like state sovereignty and non-interference as common goals for development and transnational peace. Echoing a classic Chinese expression that Xi Jinping has used since 2017 to describe the Chinese Communist Party as having a global responsibility for international peace, Wan argues that China and Europe are under “heaven as one family” (天下一家).

Dolon TV Gains Exclusive CCTV Rebroadcast Rights in Kyrgyzstan

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Beginning in 2015, privately owned Kyrgyz broadcaster Dolon TV received Chinese government subsidies through 2018 under a designation in China’s “National Cultural Export Key Project” catalogue, according to an OSCE Academy in Bishkek research report on Chinese information operations in Kyrgyzstan. Around the same period, Dolon TV secured free, exclusive rebroadcast rights to at least ten CCTV channels, according to China Index, an independent research project tracking PRC-linked media relationships, which also reports that Dolon TV produces original programming on Chinese cultural and economic projects in Kyrgyzstan. Unlike Xinhua, Wen Wei Po, and Silk Road Observer, Dolon TV is not registered as foreign media with Kyrgyzstan’s government, and operates nominally as an independent local broadcaster while carrying Chinese state television content and receiving state support.

Global Times Holds Photo Exhibition in Bishkek During Media Forum

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On May 27, 2026, Global Times (環球時報) held a stop of its “Overseas China Week” series in Bishkek, launching a photo exhibition titled “Linked by Mountains and Rivers, Bound by Shared Hearts — China and Kyrgyzstan Hand-in-Hand for the Future” alongside the 2026 China-Kyrgyzstan Media Cooperation Forum. Attendees included People’s Daily deputy editor-in-chief Cui Shixin (崔士鑫), Kyrgyzstan’s Deputy Minister of Culture, Information, Sports and Youth Policy Salkyn Sarnogoeva, Kyrgyz Tuusu Publishing House head Galina Baitekerek, and a Chinese embassy counselor. The exhibition was organized around four themes described by Global Times as “shared security responsibilities,” “integrated development opportunities,” “joint ecological construction,” and “mutual learning among civilizations,” and included images of joint counter-terrorism drills, the China-Kyrgyzstan-Uzbekistan railway, and a Chinese-built waste-to-energy plant in Bishkek. The event also displayed the Russian-language edition of Xi Jinping: The Governance of China and Global Times feature coverage decoding the book, alongside AR translation glasses made by Chinese company LLVision. Global Times reported that Kyrgyz visitors, including a Kyrgyz National University Chinese-language teacher and the editor-in-chief of Slovo Kyrgyzstana, offered favorable impressions of the exhibition’s content and presentation. Global Times said the “Overseas China Week” series had previously appeared in South Africa, South Korea, Brazil, Argentina, Germany, and Kazakhstan.

Kyrgyzstan Premieres China-Produced Belt and Road Documentary

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On November 30, 2023, Bishkek hosted the premiere of the documentary One Belt, One Road: Next to You, marking the tenth anniversary of the Belt and Road Initiative, according to Kyrgyzstan’s state news agency Kabar. Chinese Ambassador to Kyrgyzstan Du Dewen (杜德文), Kyrgyz Transport and Communications Minister Tilek Tekebaev, and Kyrgyz Deputy Minister of Culture, Information, Sports and Youth Policy Chyngyz Esengul uulu attended. Du said the initiative had “evolved from a Chinese initiative into an international practice” over its first decade and voiced hope that continued cooperation would advance a “Chinese-Kyrgyzstan community with a common destiny” — an unmistakable reference to Xi Jinping’s key foreign policy phrase. The five-episode documentary covers infrastructure, trade, transport, agriculture, and cultural cooperation between the two countries, and was slated to air through “China TV Theater,” a strand created by China’s National Radio and Television Administration (NRTA), the state agency that regulates broadcast and online audiovisual content and oversees the licensing of domestic and foreign media in China, to place Chinese state-produced programming on foreign broadcasters’ channels and platforms. Kabar described Dolon TV, its local carrier, as Kyrgyzstan’s second-largest cable operator, with more than 100 channels in Russian, Chinese, and English, and reported that the company has partnered with Chinese media on content adaptation, packaging, and dubbing since the Belt and Road Initiative’s launch.