China Media Group ( Chinese: 中央广播电视总台; lit. Central Radio-Television General Station) also known as Voice of China, is the predominant

state media State media or government media are media outlets that are under financial and/or editorial control of the state or government, directly or indirectly. There are different types of state and government media. State-controlled or state-run medi ...

company by means of radio and television broadcasting in the People's Republic of China. It was founded on 21 March 2018 as a fusion of all state-holding media enterprises including

China Central Television China Central Television (CCTV) is a Chinese state- and political party-owned broadcaster controlled by the Chinese Communist Party (CCP). Its 50 different channels broadcast a variety of programing to more than one billion viewers in six lan ...

China National Radio China National Radio (CNR; ; pronunciation: ) is the national radio network of China, headquartered in Beijing. History The infrastructure began with a transmitter from Moscow to set up its first station in Yan'an (延安). It used the call ...

, and

China Radio International China Radio International (CRI) is the state-owned international radio broadcaster of China. It is currently headquartered in the Babaoshan area of Beijing's Shijingshan District. It was founded on December 3, 1941, as Radio Peking. It later ...

. China Media Group is under the direct control of the

Propaganda Department of the Chinese Communist Party The Publicity Department of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of China, also known as the Propaganda Department or Central Propaganda Department, is an internal division of the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) in charge of spreading C ...

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CMG 7102 over Tian'anmen Square (20210619083529)

On 21 March 2018, the

Government of the People's Republic of China The Government of the People's Republic of China () is an authoritarian political system in the People's Republic of China under the exclusive political leadership of the Chinese Communist Party (CCP). It consists of legislative, executive, mili ...

announced that China Central Television, China National Radio and China Radio International was officially renamed to become China Media Group, after the first session of the

13th National People's Congress The 13th National People's Congress of the People's Republic of China was elected from October 2017 to February 2018 and will be in session in the five-year period from 2018 to 2023. It is scheduled to hold five sessions in this period, occurri ...

. That same day, Shen Haixiong, was officially named President of China Media Group. CMG was created to serve as the holding company of the People's Republic's national and international radio and television broadcasting services, which link millions of Chinese in the mainland, Hong Kong and Macau and in Taiwan and expatriates abroad. In 2020, several of CMG's assets, particularly China Global Television Network and China Radio International, were designated as foreign missions by the

United States Department of State The United States Department of State (DOS), or State Department, is an executive department of the U.S. federal government responsible for the country's foreign policy and relations. Equivalent to the ministry of foreign affairs of other na ...

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