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Entity Type: PRC Media Outlet

Tibet Daily

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.

Guangxi Daily

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.

Xinhua News Agency

Xinhua News Agency, established on November 7, 1931, as the Red China News Agency in Ruijin, Jiangxi province, is China’s official state news agency operating as a ministry-level institution under the State Council. The agency adopted its current name in January 1937 while headquartered in Yan’an, Shaanxi. Its headquarters is located near Zhongnanhai in Beijing, with the current president and Party Secretary Fu Hua (傅華), who was appointed in June 2022. By 2021, Xinhua had 181 bureaus globally, though more recent sources indicate over 170 overseas bureaus as of 2024, and publishes in multiple languages. Xinhua serves as the country’s leading news agency within the CCP’s news control system. Xinhua official news releases, or tonggao (通稿), are regarded as the authoritative version of events such as political meetings and CCP policy statements — authoritative in the sense that leadership approves them. In press orders and bans from the Central Propaganda Department, media will be instructed to “use only Xinhua releases” on particular stories. Today, Xinhua functions as an important channel for China’s leadership to disseminate its preferred narrative globally.

China News Service

China News Service (中國新聞社), established in October 1952, is China’s second-largest state news agency after Xinhua. The agency has been under the United Front Work Department of the Chinese Communist Party since 2018, focusing on overseas Chinese communities and residents of Hong Kong, Macau, and Taiwan. The agency maintains offices throughout mainland China and internationally, operating what it calls the “Global Chinese Media Cooperative Union” to redistribute state media content. In 2020, the U.S. State Department designated CNS as a “foreign mission.” According to the Media and Journalism Research Center, as of September 2024, CNS is classified as “State Controlled Media.” The agency expanded into film and television production, launched “China News Video” in 2007, and publishes several periodicals, including “China Newsweek” (中國新聞周刊).

Taiwan.cn

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.com

China.com is a comprehensive internet media platform operated by Beijing Huanet Zhixun Information Co., Ltd. (北京華網智訊信息有限公司), launched in May 1999 as one of China’s earliest portal websites. Its two shareholders are Ningbo Yurui Investment Co., Ltd. (宁波宇瑞投资有限公司), holding 75.0002 percent, and Guoguang Huanqiu Media Holdings Co., Ltd. (国广环球传媒控股有限公司), holding 24.9998 percent. In July 1999 it became the first China concept stock listed on NASDAQ, followed by a listing on the Hong Kong Stock Exchange Growth Enterprise Market in 2000. Following a dispute over a Valuation Adjustment Mechanism, it was delisted from NASDAQ in 2011 and acquired by Guoguang Huanqiu Media Holdings in 2013. After a revamp in 2021, the platform established 23 multilingual sites across 24 languages, reaching 1.63 million overseas users. Its channels cover news, military affairs, and finance. 

China Ocean Shipping News

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

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.

Economic Daily

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.