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CMG and Kyrgyz National TV Sign Cultural Exchange Letter of Intent

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The National Broadcasting Corporation of the Kyrgyz Republic (KTRK), Kyrgyzstan’s state broadcaster, signed a letter of intent for joint cultural exchange activities with China Media Group on September 2, 2025, during the Shanghai Cooperation Organization (SCO) summit in Tianjin. The agreement was among 14 bilateral media cooperation deals CMG struck with broadcasters from 13 countries during the summit, covering news reporting, joint programming, cultural activities, technological innovation, industry development, personnel exchanges, and media resource sharing. The CMG partnership with KTRK is part of China’s broader efforts to strengthen SCO media cooperation.

China Announces Asia Pacific Media Partnership Organizing Committee at Shenzhen Forum

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On September 5, 2026, Xinhua News Agency (新華社), together with other Chinese media and media organizations from across Asia, announced the establishment of the Asia-Pacific Media Partnership Organizing Committee (亞太媒體合作夥伴計劃籌備委員會). It was one of several new media initiatives announced at the Asia Pacific Media Forum (亞太媒體高端論壇) in Shenzhen, a gathering of over 400 journalists, media scholars, academics, and officials from the Indo-Pacific under the theme of “building a prosperous Asia-Pacific community: consensus and action.” The committee has sixteen founding members: eight from China and eight foreign media. The Chinese founders, all official Party media, are the CCP’s flagship People’s Daily (人民日報), the state official wire service Xinhua News Agency (新華社), the central broadcaster China Media Group (中央廣播電視總台), the English-language China Daily (中國日報), the state foreign language publisher China International Communications Group (中國外文局), the United Front Work Department’s China News Service (中國新聞社) and two provincial media groups, Nanfang Press Media Group (南方報業傳媒集) and Shenzhen Press Group (深圳報業集團). The foreign founders are Russia’s national agency TASS, the party-owned Vietnam News Agency, Indonesia’s Antara News Agency, Malaysia’s Bernama news agency, Peru’s Andina News Agency, Canada Daily News, Cambodia’s official Agence Kampuchea Presse, and the Pakistan Broadcasting Corporation. The program’s secretariat will be based at Xinhua.

Jornal Puxin

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Jornal Puxin (葡新報) was founded in 2005 by Ma Limei (馬麗梅), a Guangdong immigrant who initially worked in the service industry. Jornal Puxin initially focused on notices from the embassy, legal advice for Chinese immigrants, and local news. The paper has since gone bilingual, publishing in both Chinese and Portuguese, and has a wide digital presence across WeChat, Weibo, Facebook, Instagram, and X. According to recent profiles of Ma, Jornal Puxin’s turning point came in 2012 when she began participating in the United Front Work Department’s sponsored trips to China, particularly to Qinghai and Tibet. In 2014, emerging from a hiatus caused by financial struggles, the paper was “infused with new blood”: it hired new talent and established a Portuguese-language section, and its mission became “telling China’s story well.” According to Xinmin Evening News, the Portuguese edition of Jornal Puxin has “helped foreigners understand the true history and situation of Tibet and Xinjiang” by distributing materials and participating in exchange events with Portuguese journalists.

Shenzhen Municipal Committee of the Chinese Communist Party

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The Shenzhen Municipal Committee of the Chinese Communist Party (中國共產黨深圳市委員會) is the leading political organ of the Chinese Communist Party in Shenzhen, a sub-provincial city and special economic zone in the southern Guangdong Province. The Committee exercises authority over governance, economic planning, and ideological work. It was established on January 23, 1979, when Guangdong’s provincial party committee dissolved the former Bao’an County committee and established Shenzhen as a city. The city became one of China’s first special economic zones in the 1980s, and it is now known as China’s “Silicon Valley.”

Vietnam News Agency

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The Vietnam News Agency, or VNA, is the official state-run news agency of the Socialist Republic of Vietnam, founded in 1945. The agency functions as a government agency that publishes and broadcasts official information and documents of the Communist Party and State and provides information services for the Party’s leadership and state management. It operates more than 30 foreign bureaus worldwide, and it owns and publishes several newspapers and outlets, such as the English-language daily Viet Nam News, the multimedia portal VientnanPlus, the French newspaper Le Courrier du Vietnam, and the photo magazine Vietnam Pictorial. VNA maintains bilateral and multilateral partnerships with international newswires such as AFP, Reuters, and Xinhua News Agency. 

Shenzhen Press Group

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The Shenzhen Press Group (深圳報業集團) is a Chinese state-owned media conglomerate formed in 2002 through the merger of the Shenzhen Special Zone Press Group (深圳特區報業集團), a paper founded in 1982 as the official organ of the Shenzhen Municipal Committee, and the Shenzhen Commercial Daily (深圳商報), a business and economy focused paper. As described in their “About Us” page, the group’s mission is to uphold “Xi Jinping Thought on Socialism with Chinese Characteristics for a New Era,” the Party’s guiding ideology under Xi Jinping. The group publishes several newspapers and magazines, including the economic newspaper Shenzhen Commercial Daily (深圳商報), the evening newspaper Shenzhen Evening News (深圳晚報), and the English-language Shenzhen Daily. It also manages platforms such as the news app Dute (读特) and the financial platform Duchuang (读创). In 2025, the group announced a three-year plan (2025–2027) to overhaul how it produces news. The plan restructured the group’s organizational model, shifting the large majority of the editorial staff toward online content production to be posted on their news app platforms. It also created a dedicated technology division to build AI tools for content creation.

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.

Khovar News Agency and People’s Daily Sign MoU

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On July 5, 2024, during President Xi Jinping’s third visit to Tajikistan since assuming office in 2012, Khovar News Agency, Tajikistan’s national news outlet, signed a memorandum of understanding with People’s Daily (人民日報), the official “mouthpiece” of the Central Committee of the Chinese Communist Party. The memorandum aims to establish a “regular cooperation mechanism” to deepen news content exchange, joint events, and talent exchange between the two outlets. The signing took place on the same day that an op-ed by President Xi Jinping, titled “Working Together for a Brighter Tomorrow of China-Tajikistan Relations” (共創中塔關係美好明天), was published by the Khovar News Agency and the government-owned Narodnaya Gazeta newspaper, outlining a “new blueprint” for China-Tajik relations framed by the countries’ shared border and historic connection via the Silk Road.

China Media Group and Kazakh President’s TV and Radio Complex Signed a Memorandum of Understanding on Content Sharing

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The state-run Kazakhstan President’s TV and Radio Complex and China Media Group (中央廣播電視總台), also known as the “Voice of China,” signed a memorandum of understanding during the Second China-Central Asia Summit in June 2025, a diplomatic meeting between China and five Central Asian countries. The agreement, according to a report by the national broadcaster China Central Television (中央電視台), which is owned by CMG, will facilitate technology and content exchange between China Media Group and Kazakhstan President’s TV as part of the China-Kazakhstan Permanent Comprehensive Strategic Partnership (中哈永久全面戰略夥伴關係). Kazakhstan President’s TV and CMG also signed a cooperation agreement to develop a singing competition gathering contestants from Central Asia and China called “Silk Way Star” (絲路之星), planned to air on Chinese and Kazakh television channels.