
Taming News of a Border Tragedy
The catastrophe that struck the China-Nepal border last month is a case study in information control — and the clearest sign yet that Xi Jinping has rewritten the script for domestic media.

Zhejiang Media Group (浙江廣播電視集團) was founded on November 8, 2001, through the merger of Zhejiang Radio Station and Zhejiang Television. The group is directly under the Zhejiang Provincial Party Committee and provincial government. The group operates 18 broadcast channels, including Zhejiang Satellite TV (浙江衛視) and Zhejiang Voice (浙江之聲), alongside new-media platforms China Blue News (中國藍新聞) and Z-Vision (Z視介). The group claims, without explanation, that it ranks “in the front nationwide” (位居全國前列) and notes in an online introduction that it has averaged “one Zhejiang story per day” on CCTV’s news program Xinwen Lianbo (新聞聯播).
