Hong Kong Students Complete CCP-Sponsored Jiangxi Media Tour
On July 29, 2025, the state-run Hong Kong Ta Kung Pao Wen Wei Po Media Group (香港大公文汇传媒集团) and its associated Ta Kung Pao Wen Wei International Communication Center (大公文汇国际传播中心), held a media-related tour in Jiangxi province in cooperation with the Propaganda Office of the Jiangxi Provincial Committee of the CCP (中共江西省委宣传部). Themed around the life and work of Fan Changjiang (范长江), the famous Chinese war correspondent for the Ta Kung Pao who in 1949 established the All-China Journalists Association (ACJA) with the Marxist political figure and propagandist Hu Qiaomu (胡乔木), the Jiangxi tour introduced Hong Kong journalism students to the political history of Anyuan County — where Mao Zedong and others mobilized a labor movement among mine workers in 1922. Officials claimed the eight-day program covering four cities, called the “2025 Fan Changjiang Action Hong Kong Media Students Jiangxi Trip” (2025范长江行动香港传媒学子江西行), would help students become “bridges” for Jiangxi-Hong Kong cooperation and “spokespersons” for China stories. Cao Yinghua (曹英华) of Jiangxi’s propaganda office said students should use their “professional, objective, youthful” writing to “show the world a true, three-dimensional, and comprehensive China” — standard PRC political language suggesting ideological training rather than professional journalism education.
