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Taiwan China Journalism Society

The Taiwan China Journalism Society (台灣中國新聞學會) is described by the All-China Journalists Association (中華全國新聞工作者協會), or ACJA, the party-led body that serves as the leading instrument of CCP press and journalism control in China, as an association of Taiwan mass media practitioners, originally founded in Chongqing in March 1941 and, according to the ACJA, “revived in Taiwan in 1965.” The ACJA profiles the Taiwan China Journalism Society on its own website alongside its own member organizations, and the society’s chair described, in the above-linked CNTV coverage, a longstanding tripartite cross-strait meeting mechanism between the society, the ACJA, and Hong Kong press organizations. The society has been closely tied to Taiwan’s private Shih Hsin University (世新大學) since its founding. The university was established by the society’s founder, Cheng She-wo (成舍我), and the chairperson of the university’s board of directors has concurrently served as the society’s president. In November 2019, Zhou Chenghu (周成虎), Shih Hsin’s board chair and Cheng She-wo’s grandson, was elected society president, succeeding his mother Cheng Chia-ling (成嘉玲), who had held both roles before him. The society is not a part of Taiwan’s recognized civic journalism sector, and is generally unknown by journalists in the country. Taiwan’s acknowledged representative journalism body is the Association of Taiwan Journalists (台灣新聞記者協會), a member of the International Federation of Journalists. The society publishes the Chinese Press Institute Bulletin (新聞界), a monthly publication covering Taiwan, mainland China, Hong Kong, Macau, and international media industry news. Until 2016, full versions were archived on its website, but since then can only be found in the “events” sections of the site. Analysis of the bulletin’s content suggests a consistent orientation toward PRC-framed cross-strait media cooperation. A 2016 issue documented a society delegation visit to Sichuan organized at the ACJA’s invitation and attended by Ma Xiaoguang (馬曉光), then head of the Taiwan Affairs Office’s news bureau, who urged cross-strait media practitioners to preserve the “results” of eight years of exchanges regardless of how political relations developed. The same issue covered a cross-strait journalism camp co-organized with the ACJA, in which participants were encouraged to “tell our story well” (說好我們的故事), an echo of Xi Jinping’s “tell China’s story well” directive. The society is formally registered with Taiwan’s Ministry of the Interior, according to its charter, which was last revised at the 10th general membership meeting in May 2011 and filed under Ministry of the Interior reference number 1000142664. The charter explicitly provides for mainland Chinese news organizations and journalists to hold honorary membership, a structural mechanism that institutionalizes the society’s cross-strait ties with the ACJA and its affiliated bodies. In September 2025, a 19-member delegation led by the society’s chair visited Zhejiang University of Media and Communications (浙江傳媒學院). The visit was accompanied by Shen Yibing (沈毅兵), head of the ACJA’s Taiwan, Hong Kong and Macau Affairs Department, making the operational relationship between the two bodies explicit. In April 2026, society representatives attended the 40th anniversary dinner of the Hong Kong News Executives’ Association (新聞行政人員協會) in Hong Kong.

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  • Chinese Name:
    台灣中國新聞學會
  • Founding Date:
    01.01.1965
  • Address:
    1st Floor, Communications Building, No. 1, Lane 17, Section 1, Muzha Road, Wenshan District, Taipei City 116, Taiwan
  • Current Status:
    Active

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