Today, Sunday December 7, 2025, the 2025 Silk Road TV Community Summit opened in Yangjiang, Guangdong Province on the Chinese mainland. Under the theme “Smart Media Empowers, Maritime Silk Road Embarks Anew,” nearly 300 media pros, academics, cultural innovators and tech entrepreneurs from 20 countries and regions gathered to chart the future of global storytelling 🌐🎥.
Shen Haixiong, vice minister at the Publicity Department of the Central Committee of the Chinese Communist Party and president of China Media Group (CMG), highlighted how the Belt and Road Initiative has moved beyond bricks and mortar into deep people-to-people connections. He called on attendees to embrace the Silk Road spirit of peaceful cooperation, openness and mutual benefit, and pledged CMG’s support for the “Four Global Initiatives” to build a community with a shared future for humanity.
Hu Jinjun, Standing Committee member of the Communist Party of China Guangdong Provincial Committee and director of the Provincial Publicity Department, invited global partners to tap into Guangdong’s innovation hub, boost cultural exchanges and write a new chapter of win-win cooperation 🤝.
Video messages from the Asia-Pacific Broadcasting Union (ABU), Arab States Broadcasting Union (ASBU) and African Union of Broadcasting (AUB) celebrated the summit as a launchpad for next-gen media collaboration. Joseph Maina Mururi of Kenya’s Media Council urged leveraging digital tech and the Belt and Road Initiative to link Africa’s vibrant markets with China’s tech prowess, amplifying diverse voices across oceans.
Jiang Haiqing, chairman of China International Television Corporation, unveiled the community’s annual report and the “Yangjiang Initiative for International Media Cooperation: Silk Road Links Oceans, Wisdom Creates Future.” This roadmap calls for tech-driven media partnerships, green development and compelling Maritime Silk Road stories 🌊.
Panels dove into AI-generated content, cultural exchanges and industry applications, spawning new projects like a co-produced micro-documentary, multilingual FAST TV translations and CGTN Spanish’s expanded broadcast in Latin America. Founded in 2016, the Silk Road TV Community now brings together 149 institutions from 64 countries and regions, making it the world’s first all-media alliance themed on the Silk Road.
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2025 Silk Road TV Community Summit held in Yangjiang, Guangdong
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