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Activity Type: Promotional or Propaganda Media Event

China Media Group Holds Hi China Event in Kuala Lumpur

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In August 2024, the “HI CHINA – Discovering China Opportunities – Celebrating 50 Years of China-Malaysia Relationship” event was held at Sunway Velocity in Kuala Lumpur, commemorating five decades of diplomatic ties between China and Malaysia. Organized by China Media Group (中央广播电视总台) and supported by China Enterprises Chamber of Commerce in Malaysia (CECCM), the cultural exchange celebration featured speeches by Manoharan Periasamy, Director-General of Tourism Malaysia, and Shi Le (施乐), Director of the Sinhala Department of CMG’s Asian and African Languages Programming Centre. CECCM President Ni Qingjiu (倪庆久) participated as a distinguished guest in the opening ceremony. The event included booths showcasing Chinese cultural exchanges, which organizers said “deepened cultural interactions with the Malaysia public” and highlighted collaborative spirit between the two nations whose diplomatic relations were established on May 31, 1974. 

Foreign Journalists Tour Chinese Industry Sites During Belt and Road Media Forum

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Organized around the 2025 Belt and Road Media Cooperation Forum (2025″一带一路”媒体合作论坛), a joint Chinese and foreign media interview team (中外媒体联合采访团) conducted multi-city site visits across China — reported in the CCP’s official People’s Daily on February 12, 2026. The government-facilitated journalist delegation toured five locations: State Power Investment’s Shizitan Hydroelectric Station in Chongqing, China Overseas Land’s Daji Lane commercial district (中海大吉巷商圈) in Beijing, Yili’s Yunnan dairy factory, Fenjiu Group’s distillery in Shanxi, and Great Wall Motors’ Xushui plant in Hebei. Participating foreign media included outlets from Georgia, Azerbaijan, Pakistan, Argentina, Peru, Uruguay, Cuba, Kazakhstan, South Africa, Botswana, Tanzania, and Lesotho. “In China, I saw the process of technological development. The Shizitan Hydropower Station is evidence of modernized development,” said Catherine Gulua, founder and editor-in-chief of Georgia’s Mutavari Media Center, on her third documented China visit since 2023. A previous journalist tour, including Gulua, provided a clear opportunity for Chinese state media to promote positive views of the country in the voice of visiting journalists, a common tactic for organized tours, which are not purely educational.

China News Service Hosts 12th World Chinese Media Forum

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The 12th World Chinese Media Forum (第十二屆世界華文傳媒論壇) opened on September 7, 2025, in Kunming, Yunnan Province, bringing together representatives from over 120 Chinese-language media outlets from more than 50 countries and regions across five continents. Attendees included Huang Huanming (黃煥明), president of Jian Hua Daily (柬華日報), and a representative from Cambodia China Times (柬中時報). The forum was hosted by China News Service (中國新聞社). Chen Xu (陳旭), deputy minister of the United Front Work Department (UFWD) and director of the State Council Overseas Chinese Affairs Office, attended the opening ceremony alongside Li Baojun (李保俊), Yunnan Provincial Committee Standing Committee member and head of the provincial division of the UFWD. The World Chinese Media Forum, described by official state media as playing a key role in “global Chinese media cooperation and consensus-building,” is a key vehicle for the CCP to exercise influence over media in diaspora communities.

Honduran State TV Airs CGTN Program Amid Diplomatic Shift

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On March 26, 2023, just hours after Honduras severed ties with Taiwan, the Chinese international state broadcaster CGTN (中國國際電視台) aired a special program on Canal Ocho (第八頻道), Honduras’s state-owned “Channel 8.” The program, clearly prepared well in advance of the shift of diplomatic recognition from Taiwan to the PRC, revealed the diplomatic role played by Chinese state media in the transition. CGTN operates under China Media Group (中國媒體集團), the state-run conglomerate directly under the Chinese Communist Party’s Central Propaganda Department (中央宣傳部). CMG subsequently established a permanent bureau in Tegucigalpa, while Xinhua News Agency (新華社) opened a local office positioned as a hub for Central American operations. Shortly afterward, 30 Honduran journalists participated in a ten-day, all-expenses-paid tour of China under Foreign Ministry supervision — consistent with Beijing’s post-recognition media engagement strategy across the region.

Chinese Embassy Hosts Zimbabwe China Film Festival

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The 2025 Zimbabwe-China Film Festival opened in Harare on August 5, attended by Chinese Ambassador to Zimbabwe Zhou Ding (周鼎) and over 200 officials and diplomatic representatives. The festival, co-hosted by the Chinese Embassy, China’s National Film Administration, and Zimbabwe’s Ministry of Sport, Entertainment, Arts and Culture, featured four Chinese films, including Panda Plan, YOLO, The Captain, and Red Sea Operation. Ambassador Zhou emphasized that the festival demonstrated China’s “Global Civilization Initiative” and aimed to deepen cultural understanding during Zimbabwe’s 45th year of diplomatic relations with China. Deputy Director Luo Yang (羅楊) of China’s National Film Administration noted this year marks the 130th anniversary of world cinema and 120th of Chinese cinema, expressing hopes for expanded film industry cooperation. Zimbabwean Deputy Minister of Sport, Entertainment, Arts and Culture Jessaya welcomed the festival as supporting the country’s “Film Strategy 2025-2030,” while a representative from Zimbabwe’s Film Association praised the strengthened bilateral cultural exchange.

China and Indonesia Hold Youth Media Exchange Program

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On August 29, 2025, the “We and the World Dialogue” (我們與世界對話) China-Indonesia youth media exchange took place in Jakarta, marking the 75th anniversary of diplomatic relations between the two countries. Nearly 100 young representatives from media organizations, universities, and research institutions participated. The event was co-organized by several Chinese institutions linked to the Guangxi Provincial Government, including the Information Office of the People’s Government of Guangxi Zhuang Autonomous Region (廣西壯族自治區人民政府新聞辦公室), the Guangxi International Communication Center (廣西國際傳播中心) — an office under the province’s propaganda office — and Guangxi Radio and Television (廣西廣播電視台). Indonesian partners included the state-run Televisi Republik Indonesia (印尼國家電視台) and the newspaper Harian InHua (印華日報). Participants explored three central themes throughout the event, including AI, media integration (媒體融合), and “Partners with Shared Destiny” (命運與共好夥伴) — this last theme clearly aligned with Xi Jinping’s foreign policy framework. This event is part of Guangxi’s broader role under a national plan in China to empower border provinces in the south to promote Chinese messaging across Southeast Asia.

People’s Daily and Zambian Media Conduct Joint Reporting on China-Africa Cooperation

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On July 29, 2024, the People’s Daily (人民日報) and several Zambian media outlets conducted a joint reporting visit in Lusaka under the theme “China-Africa Cooperation in the New Era” (新時代中非合作) — described as the first such joint reporting exercise between Chinese and Zambian media conducted on Zambian soil. Journalists from the People’s Daily, the Zambia Daily Mail, and the Daily Nation visited the Lusaka Park of the Zambia-China Economic and Trade Cooperation Zone (中贊經貿合作區), described in the People’s Daily report as China’s first economic and trade cooperation zone in Africa. According to the People’s Daily, as of June 2024 the zone hosted nearly 90 Chinese enterprises with total investment exceeding 2.7 billion US dollars, and cumulative sales revenue of more than 28 billion US dollars. The joint visit was framed in the People’s Daily as an exercise in “telling the story of China-Zambia and China-Africa cooperation in the new era” (講好新時代中贊、中非合作故事) and “telling the story of high-quality Belt and Road Initiative co-construction” (講好高質量共建一帶一路故事) — formulations that echo Xi Jinping’s directive to “tell China’s story well” (講好中國故事), first issued at the 2013 National Propaganda and Ideology Work Conference. The report was published in the People’s Daily on July 31, 2024.

China Media Group Co-hosts Event at UN Headquarters

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On August 13, 2025, the Permanent Mission of China to the United Nations and the state-run China Media Group (中央廣播電視總台) co-hosted a cultural exchange event at the United National Headquarters in New York to commemorate the the 80th anniversary of the victory of the Chinese People’s War of Resistance Against Japanese Aggression and the World Anti-Fascist War — China’s language for the end of World War II. In remarks to the event, called “Echoes of Peace,” Fu Cong (傅聰), the PRC’s permanent representative to the UN, said China was “proud to be the first country to sign the United Nations Charter,” a statement obscuring the fact that it was the Republic of China (ROC), the current government of Taiwan, that originally signed the Charter in 1945. Shen Haixiong (慎海雄), president of China Media Group, delivered video remarks stating the event aimed to “promote the correct historical view of World War II.” According to Shen, the correct view meant recognizing “the united front against Japanese aggression advocated and established under the banner of the Chinese Communist Party.” The remarks highlighted a key propaganda aspect of 80th anniversary celebrations organized by China, which were meant to rewrite the history of China’s war of resistance to define the CCP’s role as primary — and the CCP, by extension, as a key founder of the UN system.

China and Greece Hold Media Dialogue Roundtable

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On May 21, 2026, the “China–Greece Media Think Tank Dialogue Roundtable” (中希媒體智庫對話圓桌會) was held at the Chinese School of Classical Studies at Athens (CSCSA), an institute of the Chinese Academy of Social Sciences (中國社會科學院), inaugurated in Athens on November 28, 2024. The event was co-hosted by the All-China Journalists Association (中華全國新聞工作者協會), or ACJA — which, according to its own constitution, operates as “a national people’s organization of the Chinese press under CCP leadership” — and the CSCSA. The ACJA also plays a critical role for the CCP in enforcing domestic controls on journalists, including mandatory training in the “Marxist View of Journalism” (馬克思主義新聞觀), a framework that prescribes CCP dominance over the press and public opinion. Representatives from the Chinese Embassy in Greece, the ACJA, and multiple Chinese media outlets attended alongside Greek organizations including the Journalists’ Union of Athens Daily Newspapers, the Athens-Macedonian News Agency, the Greek public broadcaster ERT, and the Chinese-language China–Greece Times (中希時報). Participants discussed expanding joint reporting, exchange programs, a proposed annual China–Greece journalism prize (中希新聞獎), and a shared fact-checking mechanism, while framing journalists as “guardians of truth” in an AI-driven information environment marked by “fake news” and algorithmic bias. The gathering promoted a narrative of “civilizational dialogue” and invoked the Piraeus Port project — a flagship Belt and Road Initiative (一帶一路) investment — as a symbol of bilateral ties, coinciding with the 20th anniversary of the China–Greece comprehensive strategic partnership, signed in 2006.