Entity Type: PRC Media Outlet

Yunnan Media Group (雲南廣播電視台), or YMG, serves as the provincial state broadcaster of southwestern China’s Yunnan province under the leadership of the provincial Chinese Communist Party committee. Established on August 29, 2012, through the merger of Yunnan Television Station and Yunnan People’s Radio Station, YMG operates nine television channels and eight radio frequencies. The organization functions as a directly administered institution under the Yunnan provincial government while receiving guidance from the provincial party propaganda office. YMG plays a strategic role in China’s media and cultural outreach to Southeast Asia, working closely with the provincial government and Yunnan’s South and Southeast Asia Regional International Communication Center (雲南省南亞東南亞區域國際傳播中心) to promote cross-border exchanges with neighboring countries.

Taiwan.cn (中國臺灣網)  was launched in July 1999 as a news website, operating under the State Council Taiwan Affairs Office (國務院臺灣事務辦公室), Beijing’s primary government agency for Taiwan policy formulation and implementation. The site serves as a key platform for advancing official Chinese positions on cross-strait relations while presenting itself as providing “authoritative reporting” on Taiwan affairs and boasting of being beloved by internet users on both sides of the Taiwan Strait. The platform is available in three languages—simplified Chinese, traditional Chinese, and English. Beyond standard news coverage, it produces targeted content, including “Two Straits Headlines”  (兩岸頭條) and “Two Straits Quick Commentary” (兩岸快評), which serve to disseminate Beijing’s messaging on Taiwan-related developments to both mainland and Taiwanese audiences.

China Economic Information Service(中國經濟信息社), abbreviated as CEIS, is an economic information service enterprise under Xinhua News Agency (新華社). Established in October 1989 and restructured in April 2016, CEIS has become China’s most authoritative economic information service institution with the broadest service areas and most comprehensive information types. With information collection points covering 180 countries and regions and branches in 30 Chinese provinces, CEIS claimed it “serves over 130,000 institutional users and 39 million individual users globally.” The company built several national platforms, including Xinhua Finance, Xinhua Silk Road, Xinhua Credit, and Xinhua Index, while operating national projects such as the National Integrated Government Service Platform. CEIS positioned itself as the “national economic information flagship” (國家級經濟資訊旗艦) offering services in consulting, data processing, information integration, and system maintenance.

The Xinmin Evening News, was established on September 9, 1929, in Nanjing as Xinmin Po (新民報) by three editors from Central News Agency: Chen Mingde (陳銘德), Wu Zhusi (吳竹似), and Liu Zhenghua (劉正華). After 1946, the newspaper expanded to Shanghai, where it launched its evening edition as Xinmin Evening News. Currently owned by Shanghai United Media Group (上海報業集團), the publication underwent significant transformation in 1958 when the evening edition was formally renamed from Xinmin Po Evening Edition to Xinmin Evening News. In October 2020, the United States Department of State designated the newspaper as a foreign mission of the Chinese government. On January 1, 2025, Xinmin Evening News was integrated with Liberation Daily (解放日報) and Wenhui Daily (文匯報) into the unified Shangguan News platform (上觀新聞), consolidating Shanghai’s three major newspapers under a shared digital framework.

Tibet Daily (西藏日报) is the official Communist Party newspaper of the Tibet Autonomous Region, first published on April 22, 1956 — making it the first daily newspaper established after the People’s Liberation Army entered Tibet. Published in both Chinese and Tibetan, the paper serves as the mouthpiece for the Chinese Communist Party’s Tibet Autonomous Region Committee (中国共产党西藏自治区委员会), with a stated mission of promoting Party policies, regional government initiatives, and what it describes as Tibet’s development and stability.

Wuxi Daily (无锡日报) is the mouthpiece publication of the CCP Committee of the city of Wuxi, in China’s Jiangsu province. Founded on August 1, 1949, as Workers’ Life (工人生活), it became the official party organ in 1954 and adopted its current name in 1957. The newspaper suspended publication during the Cultural Revolution (1966-1979) before resuming operations. Now published by Wuxi Daily Media Group, the full-color broadsheet maintains the largest circulation among local news publications in the Wuxi region at 50,000 copies, with readership reaching 550,000-600,000 people. It covers Wuxi city and surrounding areas including Jiangyin and Yixing cities. The publication claimed in the late 2010s to have pioneered online newspaper services in Jiangsu province and has evolved into a multimedia platform encompassing print, digital, mobile, and audio-visual content.

Science and Technology Daily is the official newspaper of China’s Ministry of Science and Technology, established in 1986 with its name calligraphed by Deng Xiaoping. Based in Beijing, it’s a state-run media outlet described by Chinese authorities as a “central mainstream media” tasked with “propaganda missions for the Party and the state in science and technology.” The publication claims to maintain 33 domestic bureaus and 14 international offices, positioning itself as a comprehensive media organization connecting domestic and international science communities. The paper gained historical significance as one of the few Chinese publications to cover the 1989 Tiananmen Square protests. In 2021, it launched an English edition “dedicated to telling China’s science and technology innovation story to the world.”

China Newsweek (中國新聞周刊), launched in January 2000, is a Beijing-based magazine published by China News Service (CNS). The publication produces editions in multiple languages including English, Japanese, Korean, Italian, and South Asian languages. CNS claimed the magazine has been “widely accepted by the mainstream society” due to what it called stories written with “keen, profound, incisive and original perspective.” The magazine gained some recognition in the 2000s for its professional reporting, including investigative coverage.

Guangxi Daily serves as the official newspaper of the Chinese Communist Party’s Guangxi Zhuang Autonomous Region Committee (中國共產黨廣西壯族自治區委員會). Established on December 3, 1949, as the CCP Guangxi Provincial Committee’s organ, it relocated from Guilin to Nanning on January 22, 1950, following the province’s liberation. When Guangxi became an autonomous region on March 5, 1958, the newspaper became the regional party committee’s official organ. In December 2009, the Guangxi Daily Media Group (廣西日報傳媒集團) was established while maintaining the newspaper’s operations. The publication claims to be “the most authoritative and influential party committee organ newspaper in Guangxi” (廣西最具權威性和影響力的黨委機關報), guided by Marxist-Leninist principles, Mao Zedong Thought, Deng Xiaoping Theory, the Three Represents, Scientific Outlook on Development, and Xi Jinping’s important speeches. With a daily circulation of 230,000 copies, since 2005, it has become one of China’s first provincial party newspapers to manage its own distribution.