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China
Iranian Mehr Media Group and China's Xinhua News Agency signed a memorandum of understanding on October 14, 2024, during the 6th World Media Summit in Urumqi, China. The agreement aims to expand media cooperation, strengthen information exchange, and develop collaboration in media technologies. Mehr Media Group, which includes Mehr News Agency and the English-language Tehran Times, also published the Farsi translation of Xinhua's "Humanomics in the New Era" report du…
Iran
The Islamic Development Organization (سازمان تبلیغات اسلامی), also known as the Islamic Ideology Dissemination Organization (IIDO), is an Iranian religious and cultural organization established on June 22, 1981, following a decree by Supreme Leader Ruhollah Khomeini (روحالله خمینی) after the 1979 Revolution. Created in 1981 to promote the ideologies of the Islamic Republic, the organization operates under the direct supervision of Iran's Supreme Leader as an independent legal entity. IIDO oversees several media outlets, including the English-language Tehran Times, Mehr News Agency (established June …
Argentina, Barbados, Burundi, China, Philippines, Russia
On December 2, 2023, China's state news agency Xinhua News Agency (新華社) signed cooperation agreements with multiple foreign media outlets and institutions during the 5th World Media Summit in Guangzhou, Guangdong Province. The agreements, covering news exchanges, personnel visits, and integrated media development, were signed by Fu Hua (傅華), president of Xinhua News Agency, alongside representatives from Argentina, the Philippines, Russia, Burundi, and Barbados. María Bernarda Llorente, president of Argentina's state news agency Télam, described the agreement as having "great significance" for …
Philippines
The Philippine News Agency (PNA) is the Philippine government's official web-based newswire service, established on March 1, 1973. Initially operating with teletype machines and typewriters, PNA has evolved into an internet-based news service providing coverage of government policies, activities, and programs. The agency operates with 19 reporters and correspondents in Metro Manila and maintains 16 provincial bureaus that submit content to its central desk in Quezon City around the clock. Under President Rodrigo Duterte's administration beginning in June 2016, PNA received significant modernization support, including fiber optic connections and equipm…
Nigeria
China and Nigeria signed a Memorandum of Understanding on August 11, 2017, in Abuja to enhance media and information cooperation between the Federal Ministry of Information and National Orientation of Nigeria and China's State Council Information Office (國務院新聞辦公室). Nigerian Information and Culture Minister Lai Mohammed described the agreement as "a very important milestone in diplomatic relations" and outlined objectives including news exchange, joint coverage, training programs for Nigerian journalists and media practitioners, and cooperation in animation and film co-production.…
China, Zimbabwe
On August 8, 2018, the China-Africa Friendly Economic and Trade Development Foundation (中非友好經貿發展基金會) hosted a promotional event in Beijing for the film "When Africa Meets You" (非洲遇見你). The event took place in the context of heightened China-Africa relations, as President Xi Jinping had recently completed a four-country African tour in July 2018, visiting Senegal, Rwanda, South Africa, and Mauritius, ahead of the Beijing Summit of the Forum on China-Africa Cooperation (FOCAC) in September 2018. The film promotion featured participation from diplomats, including Zimbabwe's Deputy Chief of Mission Mug…
Nigeria
The News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) signed a memorandum of understanding with Xinhua News Agency (新華通訊社) in May 2019 to promote China's Belt and Road Economic Information Partnership (BREIP) initiative. The West Africa Bureau Chief of Xinhua News Agency described the initiative as a "business arrangement to complement the efforts of member countries on the development strategy" related to the Belt and Road Initiative. BREIP was established by Xinhua News Agency in June 2019 as an information-sharing platform conn…
Nigeria
The Federal Government of Nigeria operates as a federal republic established in 1960, with power shared between federal, state, and local levels. President Bola Ahmed Tinubu currently leads the executive branch, while the National Assembly comprises the Senate and House of Representatives, focusing on economic development, security, and infrastructure priorities.…
China
Guangdong Xiexun Technology Co. Ltd. was established in 2017 with a registered capital of 10 million yuan. The company describes itself as focused on "internet product development for Southeast Asian countries," and
China
The Propaganda Office of the Ningxia Committee of the Chinese Communist Party (中共寧夏回族自治區委員會宣傳部) serves as the chief office responsible for communicating the agendas of the regional party leadership and overseeing state-run media throughout Ningxia, including direct supervision of the Ningxia Daily Media Group (寧夏日報報業集團) and other regional outlets. The office coordinates party ideological work across the autonomous region, exercising comprehensive control over news, publishing, and cultural production within Ningxia's borders. It enforces the party's media discipline, ensuring all local outlets maintain proper political orientation and implement
Afghanistan
The Afghan Ministry of Information and Culture (وزارت اطلاعات و فرهنگ) is a government ministry established to oversee culture, tourism, publishing affairs, and youth programs, headquartered in Kabul. The ministry claims responsibility for cultural preservation, media oversight, and youth development across Afghanistan. Prior to the Taliban's seizure of control on August 15, 2021, the organization had been led by various ministers including Sayed Makhdoom Raheen, who served multiple terms between 2001 and 2015 and founded the Association for Peace and Democra…
Afghanistan
On December 5, 2017, Kabul News TV launched the five-episode documentary "The Belt and Road Story of China and Afghanistan" (中國與阿富汗"一帶一路"故事) at a ceremony in Kabul. The documentary features interviews with officials from China and Afghanistan, focusing on exchanges under China's Belt and Road Initiative. More than 30 attendees included Zhang Zhixin (張志新), Chargé d'Affaires of the Chinese Embassy in Afghanistan, Deputy Minister of Information and Culture Sayada Muzagan Mustafavi, and Kabul News TV CEO Ghulam Gilani Zawak. Zhang praised the documentary's "clear theme and rich content," stating that it reflects develop…
Afghanistan
Kabul News TV was a Pashto-language television channel based in Afghanistan that operated for approximately one decade before halting operations in November 2022. The channel had broadcast "on a national level and beyond," according to TOLOnews, which reported that economic challenges were the primary reason for its closure. Hafizullah Barakzai, head of the Council of Afghanistan's Journalists, stated that "economic challenges" led to the channel's collapse, reflecting broader difficulties facing Afghan media following the Taliban's return to power in August 2021. The channel continu…
China
The Yunnan Provincial Journalists Association (雲南省新聞工作者協會), also known as the Yunnan Journalists Association (雲南省記協), is a provincial chapter of China's All-China Journalists Association (ACJA), established in 1956. The chapter was suspended during the Cultural Revolution (1966-1976), and resumed operations in 1980. Like its national counterpart, the provincial association plays a key role, in coordination with the provincial propaganda office, in controlling the activities of local journalists, including through the issuance of press cards and conducting training in the Marxist View of Journalism. …
Myanmar
On July 3-13, 2018, in Kunming, Beijing, and Shanghai, the All-China Journalists Association (中國記協) and Yunnan Provincial Journalists Association (雲南省記協) hosted the fourth Myanmar Journalists Training Program (緬甸記者研修班) for 20 media workers from the Myanmar Journalists Association, Myanmar National Radio and Television (緬甸國家廣播電視台), and Myanmar International Television (緬甸國際電視台). Chinese officials claimed the program, which featured sessions on Xi Jinping's signature Belt and Road Initiative and new media techniques, would "effectively promote exchange and cooperation" between Chinese and Myanmar media. According to a report from the official Yunnan Daily newspaper, participants fr…
Hong Kong
The Liaison Office of the Central People's Government in the Hong Kong Special Administrative Region (中央人民政府駐香港特別行政區聯絡辦公室) was established on January 18, 2000, succeeding the Xinhua News Agency Hong Kong Branch that operated since 1947. Also known as the Hong Kong Work Committee of the Central Committee of the Chinese Communist Party under a "one institution with two names" system, the office serves as Beijing's representative in Hong Kong and coordinates pro-Beijing candidates, mobilizes supporters for "patriotic" political parties, and orchestrates electoral campaigns. Critics have alleged that the office interferes in the affairs of H…
China
The Ta Kung Pao Wen Wei International Communication Center (大公文汇国际传播中心) was officially established on November 12, 2023, during the Overseas Chinese Media Cooperation Organization Annual Conference in Dongguan, serving as Hong Kong Ta Kung Pao Wen Wei Po Media Group's mainland operational headquarters. The center integrates the group's media brands, platforms, activities, and overseas resources to serve government departments and large enterprises in "international communication capacity building, foreign public opinion monitoring, overseas brand promotion, economic cooperation, and cultural exchanges." According to official d…
Singapore
On June 6, 2019, China's Nanfang Media Group (南方報業傳媒集團) signed a cooperation agreement with Singapore Press Holdings' Chinese Media Group (華文媒體集團), establishing the "Guangdong-Singapore International Communication Platform" (粵新國際傳播平台), described in coverage by China's official Xinhua News Agency as the first long-term media cooperation mechanism between Guangdong Province and Singapore. The agreement was signed during the opening ceremony of the China (Guangdong)-Singapore Media and Culture Exchange Week …
Hong Kong
On July 29, 2025, the state-run Hong Kong Ta Kung Pao Wen Wei Po Media Group (香港大公文汇传媒集团) and its associated Ta Kung Pao Wen Wei International Communication Center (大公文汇国际传播中心), held a media-related tour in Jiangxi province in cooperation with the Propaganda Office of the Jiangxi Provincial Committee of the CCP (中共江西省委宣传部). Themed around the life and work of Fan Changjiang (范长江), the famous Chinese war correspondent for the Ta Kung Pao who in 1949 established the All-China Journalists Association (ACJA) with the Marxist political figure and propagandist Hu Qiaomu (胡乔木), the Jiangxi tour introduced Hong Kong journalism students to the political history of Anyuan County — where Mao…
Kenya
StarTimes Media Co. Ltd is a Chinese electronics and media company founded in 1988 by Chinese engineer Pang Xinxing (龐新星). The company, with a strong presence in Sub-Saharan Africa, offers digital terrestrial and satellite television services while providing technologies to countries transitioning from analog to digital television. As of 2024, StarTimes established "a network transmission platform covering 45 countries and 1.2 billion people in …
