Media Forum On Belt and Road Opens in Fuzhou
The 2026 Media Cooperation Forum on Belt and Road drew over 200 foreign representatives from 100 countries to Fujian Province.
Updated on Nov. 3, 2026 in Civic
The 2026 Media Cooperation Forum on Belt and Road was held November 3 in Fuzhou, southeast China's Fujian Province. The forum brought together over 200 foreign representatives from 100 countries, along with 182 media outlets and institutions.
Why it matters
The forum gathers international media and organizations around the Belt and Road theme, shaping how cross-border coverage of cooperation projects is produced and shared. It is intended to encourage joint storytelling among media from different countries.
The forum recorded attendance of over 200 foreign representatives from 100 countries and 182 media outlets and institutions. Specific commercial or viewership metrics were not reported, and the outcomes of the three sub-forums remain unspecified.
The players
People's Daily
People's Daily is the official newspaper of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of China and one of the largest newspapers in the world.
People's Government of Fujian Province
The People's Government of Fujian Province is the provincial executive authority of Fujian, a coastal province in southeast China.
The details
The forum is jointly hosted by People's Daily and the People's Government of Fujian Province, and features an opening ceremony, three sub-forums, and a display of Belt and Road cooperation achievements. Its theme is 'Pursuing Common Understandings and Shared Aspirations along the Belt and Road.'
Timeline
November 3, 2026: Media Cooperation Forum on Belt and Road held in Fuzhou.
Following the forum: joint reporting trips in Fujian and other parts of China are planned for participating media.
Civic Context
The forum extends the Belt and Road Initiative, launched in 2013, into the media sphere, emphasizing joint storytelling over infrastructure or trade. It frames cross-border media cooperation as a companion to the initiative's broader cooperation agenda.
For international audiences, joint reporting from the forum may bring Belt and Road stories from multiple countries into news coverage. The source does not specify the outlets, languages, or platforms through which the resulting reports will be published.
The takeaway
Cross-border media collaboration can give audiences a wider view of multinational cooperation projects than any single outlet could provide alone.
What happens next
Media representatives are scheduled to undertake joint reporting trips in Fujian and other parts of China following the forum.
Further reading
Explore more Civic coverage on how international cooperation shapes public life.
