Entity Type: PRC Media Group

Shandong Radio and Television (山東廣播電視台) was formed in 2010 through the merger of three radio and television stations. According to its introduction, its official website, iqilu.com (齊魯網), is the designated platform for publishing Shandong provincial government news releases. Its 2025 annual report highlighted its external propaganda work, such as producing the five-episode documentary Master Yijing (義淨大師), intended to promote China-Malaysia exchange. The broadcaster also operates the Shandong International Communication Center (山東國際傳播中心), which aims to “tell the true and compelling stories” of Shandong. The language echoes “tell China’s story well,” the phrase Xi Jinping introduced in 2013 to enhance external propaganda. In September 2026, it took part in the China-Kazakhstan Media Roundtable in Almaty, co-organized by the All-China Journalists Association (中華全國新聞工作者協會).

Founded in December 2004, the Gansu Broadcasting Group (甘肅廣播電視總台), also known as Gansu Media Group, was formed hrough the merger of Gansu People’s Radio Station (甘肅人民廣播電台) and Gansu Television Station (甘肅電視台). According to its 2023 annual budget, the group operates under the guidance of the Propaganda Office of the Gansu Provincial Committee of the Chinese Communist Party (中共甘肅省委宣傳部). It runs six television and three radio channels, as well as an app (視聽甘肅) offering news and TV programs. Its external communications work includes the documentaryFrom the Loess Plateau to the East African Plateau: The Ribbon Crossing the “Belt and Road Initiative” (從黃土高原到東非高原：跨越「一帶一路」的飄帶). The film was selected for the “Silk Road Audio-Visual Project” (絲綢之路視聽工程), an initiative of the National Radio and Television Administration to promote Chinese audiovisual productions abroad. In 2026, the group took part in the China-Kazakhstan Media Roundtable, co-organized by the All-China Journalists Association, a Chinese Communist Party-led professional association that serves a key role in implementing press control policies.

The Guangxi People’s Publishing House (廣西人民出版社) is a state-owned publishing house based in Nanning and a subsidiary of the Guangxi Publishing & Media Group (廣西出版傳媒集團). According to China’s corporate registry, the group is fully owned by Guangxi’s Department of Finance (廣西壯族自治區財政廳). It describes itself as the first publisher established in Guangxi after the establishment of the PRC and has to date published over 20,000 titles. The publishing house’s website also states that the publisher has “stuck to the correct publishing direction, to promote the Party’s theory and line” (始終堅持正確的出版導向，以宣傳黨的理論和路線), a phrase indicating alignment with CCP messaging guidelines. At the 2026 China-ASEAN Urban Media Roundtable, the publisher signed an agreement with the Nanning Media Convergence Center to further cooperate on the promotion of Chinese publications in Southeast Asian countries.

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.

The Guizhou Daily Newspaper Group (貴州日報報業集團) is the publisher of the Guizhou Daily (貴州日報), the official mouthpiece newspaper of the Guizhou Provincial Committee of the Chinese Communist Party (CCP). The daily newspaper serves to both mirror the policy priorities of the central CCP leadership in Beijing at the provincial level, and to promote the policies and priorities of top provincial leaders. The newspaper group, formed originally in November 1949, soon after the establishment of the PRC, publishes a suite of commercial publications, including Guizhou Business Daily (貴州上報) and Guizhou Metropolis Daily (貴州都市報), and like other traditional publishing groups under CCP control, has moved in recent years toward greater digitalization. In early 2019, the group merged with Contemporary Guizhou Publishing Media Group (當代貴州期刊傳媒集團), the publisher since 2011 of a number of periodicals, including Contemporary Guizhou (當代貴州), to form the Guizhou Daily Convergent Media Group (貴州日報當代融媒體集團有限責任公司), which has formed cooperative partnerships overseas, including with Tavuli News in the Solomon Islands.

Henan Daily Press Group (河南日報報業集團) is a state-owned media conglomerate headquartered in Zhengzhou, built around its flagship party organ Henan Daily (河南日報), which was founded on June 1, 1949 as the official newspaper of the Henan CCP Provincial Committee. The group was formally established on July 28, 2000, and in 2004 was restructured to spin off its commercial assets and operations into a separate limited company, Henan Daily Press Group Co. Ltd. (河南日報報業集團有限公司), as part of a national pilot program on cultural-sector reform aimed at separating editorial and commercial functions; in 2022, its institutional arm was renamed Henan Daily Press (河南日報社), forming a parallel “one press, one company” structure that operates under the direct oversight of the Henan CCP Provincial Committee. The group reported total assets exceeding 10 billion yuan and roughly 5,300 employees as of 2024, with 34 wholly owned or controlled subsidiaries spanning publishing, digital media, education, and cultural tourism. Its properties include the metro daily Dahe Daily (大河報), the digital outlet Dahe.cn (大河網) operated through its Dahe Network Media Group (大河網絡傳媒集團) subsidiary, and the Henan International Communication Center, the province’s official international propaganda outlet, which it has operated since the center’s 2023 launch.

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).

China Media Group (中央廣播電視總台), also known as “Voice of China,” was established on March 21, 2018, under the direct control of the Chinese Communist Party’s Central Propaganda Department (中共中央宣傳部). China’s largest state media conglomerate was formed through the merger of China Central Television (中國中央電視台), founded in 1958, China National Radio (中央人民廣播電台), and China Radio International (中國國際廣播電台). The organization operates 47 television channels and 17 radio frequency bands, with claims of maintaining bureaus in 63 countries and regions. CMG states its flagship news program Xinwen Lianbo (新聞聯播) “attracts an average daily audience of 120 million” and claims the 2020 Spring Festival Gala was watched by 1.232 billion people in China and overseas.” The organization broadcasts in more than 40 languages through subsidiaries, including China Global Television Network (CGTN). As the China Media Project notes, CMG has been “portrayed by state media sources as a key step in advancing China’s international transmission capacity and telling China’s story well,” serving as the Party’s central platform for domestic propaganda and international broadcasting.