China’s news media industry actively international exchanges among news media professionals
The Chinese news media industry is actively engaging in international exchanges and cooperation.
The Chinese media has published its 2024 annual report with details of how the industry fared and what the future would look like.
The document titled: Development of China’s News Media, 2024, annual reports compiled by the “All-China Journalists Association (ACJA) to objectively present the scene of China’s news media industry to press practitioners in other countries” was availed us on December 30, 2024
The document highlighted that industry organizations and competent authorities actively promoted international exchanges among news media professionals.
It should be noted that ,the ACJA held the Belt and Road Journalists Forum, joint interviews and training activities, the China-CEEC Journalists Roundtable, and the China-Mongolia Media Forum. It received dozens of foreign press delegations visiting China; organized Chinese press delegations to visit several foreign countries; signeda memorandum of understanding (MoU) with the Polish Media Association, the Union of Bulgarian Journalists, and the International Sports Press Association, respectively, to jointly build the “Home of Journalists.”It hosted dozens of press salons and “Journey Around China” events for foreign journalists and networking activities for Chinese and foreign journalists. The National Radio and Television Administration planned and organized activities such as the “Seeing China” Africa Broadcasting Campaign, and signed 12 cooperation agreements and Mo Us with relevant organizations in Russia, Vietnam, and Brazil, among other countries.
The 2023 SCO TV Festival and the 6th China-Arab States Forum on Radio and Television Cooperation were held. The Joint China Booth was set up, the China TV Theater was launched overseas, and the Audiovisual Communication Week was held in China and partner countries.
News media also actively conducted exchanges with foreign peer institutions.
A report by the All China Journalists Association (ACJA) states that in August 2024, the People’s Daily organized the Media Cooperation Forum on Belt and Road, which was attended by more than 200 heads, editors, journalists, and departmental heads from 191 media outlets in 76 countries, as well as experts, scholars, and business representatives. The forum released the Chengdu Initiative on Media Cooperation on Belt and Road, and the Third Council Meeting of the Belt and Road News Network was convened on the sidelines.
In 2023, Xinhua News Agency signed news exchange and cooperation agreements and Mo Us with 33 mainstream media and government agencies in 25 countries and regions, with a total of 173 contracts signed, covering 124 countries and regions. The major foreign exchange events it held included the World Media Summit, the BRICS Media Forum, the Plenary Meeting of the Belt and Road Studies Network, and the China-Central Asia News Agency Forum.
All-China Journalists Association (ACJA) is a national non-governmental organization composed of the press institutions at the national level, journalists associations of provinces, autonomous regions and municipalities, journalists associations of special trades, and major institutions engaged in journalism education and research. As a non-governmental organization well known in press circles both at home and abroad, ACJA has 217 institutional members including local and professional journalists associations, which embraces a total of more than 1,000,000 people engaged in journalism.
ACJA has so far, in various forms, established exchanges and cooperative relations with press institutions of more than 100 countries across the world. It sponsors bilateral and multilateral exchanges with foreign press institutions, sends Chinese press delegations abroad and receives foreign journalists, provides services to foreign correspondents stationed in Beijing such as arranging reportage trips, holding press conferences, news release sessions, international seminars and workshops, and organizing visits and various recreational activities; and participating in activities arranged by international journalists organizations and the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization.
