Entity Type: PRC Media Outlet

China Ocean Shipping News (中國遠洋海運報) is a Chinese-language industry newspaper owned by COSCO Shipping Group Co., Ltd. (中國遠洋海運集團有限公司), or COSCO Shipping, a Shanghai-headquartered state-owned marine transportation conglomerate owned by the State Council and supervised by the State-owned Assets Supervision and Administration Commission (國有資產監督管理委員會), or SASAC. The newspaper is registered in Shanghai and appears as a four-page color broadsheet issued every Friday. The newspaper’s coverage focuses on COSCO group activities and Chinese Communist Party study sessions. Its masthead states a mission to uphold the “guidance of public opinion” (輿論導向), a Party term for shaping news coverage to keep it in line with official messaging, and to serve China’s ocean shipping industry.

Jilin Radio and Television Station is a provincial-level state broadcaster based in Changchun, the capital of China’s northeast Jilin province. It was formed on October 31, 2018 through the merger of two older state outlets — Jilin People’s Broadcasting Station (吉林人民广播電台) and Jilin Television (吉林電視台) — under the Jilin Province Institutional Reform Plan, approved by the Party Central Committee and State Council. JLRTV runs eight radio frequencies covering a range of formats including news, traffic, music, and rural programming, as well as seven television channels, among them Jilin Satellite Television, which is distributed nationally across China. The station is directly owned by the Jilin Provincial People’s Government, and its content is supervised by the Propaganda Office of the Jilin Provincial Communist Party Committee.

The Economic Daily (經濟日報), founded in January 1983, is a Chinese state-owned financial and business newspaper published by the Central Committee of the Chinese Communist Party (中國共產黨中央委員會). According to its official website, the publication operates under direct Party supervision to communicate official economic policy and narratives. The newspaper focuses on economic development, financial markets, and industrial policy, serving as a key platform for disseminating the Party’s economic directives and perspectives. The Economic Daily also operates China Economic Net, an online portal launched in 2003, which extends coverage to international economics, technology, and lifestyle content alongside traditional financial reporting.

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.

Xiamen Daily (廈門日報) is the official organ of the Xiamen Municipal Committee of the Chinese Communist Party (CCP)(中共廈門市委機關報). Founded on October 22, 1949, with its masthead calligraphy provided by Shu Tong (舒同), then a standing member and propaganda chief of the CCP East China Bureau, the paper is the sole broadsheet daily of the Xiamen Special Economic Zone. As a municipal party organ, it primarily relays local CCP committee announcements and policy directives, mirroring the People’s Daily on central political priorities. The paper suspended publication in 1970 and resumed in 1979, and has historically played a central role in cross-strait messaging given Xiamen’s position as the mainland city geographically closest to Taiwan.

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.

Guangdong Radio and Television (廣東廣播電視台), or GRT, is a provincial state media organization operating under the Guangdong Provincial Party Committee’s Propaganda Office. Formed in 2014 through the merger of Guangdong People’s Broadcasting Station (established 1949), Guangdong Television (established 1959), and Southern Broadcasting, Film & Television Media Group, GRT serves China’s most populous province and plays a strategic role in external propaganda activities targeting Southeast Asia, particularly Vietnam. GRT operates multiple channels and digital platforms under CCP guidance, with capacity for multilingual broadcasting given Guangdong’s proximity to Hong Kong, Macau, and Southeast Asian markets.

China Report (El Popola Ĉinio in Esperanto) is a state-run monthly magazine published by China Report Magazine Press (中國報道雜誌社), operating under the China Foreign Languages Bureau/China International Communications Group (CICG). Founded in 1950 as People’s China Report in Esperanto, it is one of China’s earliest external propaganda publications. The magazine transitioned from print to online in 2000 and simultaneously launched a Chinese-language monthly edition focused on political and economic reporting on China’s development. In 2006, the publisher adopted the additional designation “China Foreign Languages Bureau Chinese Periodicals Center” (中國外文局中文期刊中心), consolidating management of CICG’s commercial Chinese-language publications. China Report operates as part of CICG’s external propaganda apparatus, coordinating with regional media networks across Southeast Asia to shape international narratives about Chinese development and foreign policy, including co-organizing annual news selection events with media from Lancang-Mekong countries.

Established in 2010 through the merger of local radio and television entities, the Guangzhou Broadcasting Network, or GZBN (廣州廣播電視台), operates major channels such as GZBN Comprehensive and News, alongside the Nanguo City 4K (南國都市4K) channel — which the network claims was the first 4K station at a municipal level in China. As a municipally-owned institution (事业单位) under the direct leadership of the Guangzhou Municipal Committee of the Communist Party of China (CCP) and the Guangzhou Municipal Government, GZBN serves as the state-run municipal broadcasting outlet for the southern city of Guangzhou. Headquartered at the Guangzhou International Media Port (廣州國際媒體港), GZBN led a transition toward high-definition broadcasting by becoming the nation’s first institution to completely phase out standard-definition channels.