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2026-03-21 00:07
By Shahrokh Saei
Nowruz 2026: The enduring spirit of Iran in wartime
TEHRAN – Iranians inside the country and across the diaspora have welcomed Nowruz, the Persian New Year, with vibrant celebrations that mark the arrival of spring and renewal. Rooted in traditions stretching back more than 3,000 years, Nowruz remains a powerful symbol of cultural continuity and joy, uniting families worldwide through age-old customs such as the Haft-Sin table—an arrangement of seven symbolic items beginning with the Persian letter “S,” representing health, prosperity, and rebirth.
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2025-10-26 08:39
The UN at 80: China’s Perspective
BEIJING- Eighty years ago, born from the ashes of war, the United Nations embodied humanity’s enduring pursuit of peace and justice.
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2025-09-24 08:13
By Guo Yan (CGTN Correspondent)
Xinjiang Has Its Own Jellycat How Nang-Inspired Creativity Fuels Tourism
XINJIANG- When the global craze for Labubu dolls swept across social media, I didn’t expect that in Xinjiang, visitors would be falling for another adorable creation: the nang plush toy.
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2025/09/01
Improving global governance starts from pursuing equality
Proposing the Global Governance Initiative (GGI) at the "Shanghai Cooperation Organization Plus" meeting in Tianjin, Chinese President Xi Jinping highlighted five principles for the Initiative: to adhere to sovereign equality, to abide by international rule of law, to practice multilateralism, to advocate the people-centered approach, and to focus on taking real actions.
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2025-08-29 20:42
How does China's SCO vision empower the Global South?
The Shanghai Cooperation Organization (SCO) Summit is set to shine in Tianjin. Ahead of the summit, experts have been gathering at Tianjin Port where China drives connectivity and free trade for the Global South. How does China's vision empower SCO nations to foster economic growth and regional stability? Can Tianjin Port's AI-driven automation help advance global trade for SCO members? And how can the SCO unite diverse nations to hedge Western protectionism and promote inclusive prosperity?
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2025/08/28
By Yuan Sha
Unleashing prosperity: How the SCO is shaping a new economic landscape
BEIJING- Editor's note: At the Shanghai Cooperation Organization (SCO)’s Astana Summit in July 2024, Chinese President Xi Jinping called for building a common home featuring solidarity and mutual trust, peace and tranquility, prosperity and development, good-neighborliness and friendship, as well as fairness and justice. To highlight this vision, CGTN has launched the five-part series Common Home, Moving Forward. The third article in this series focuses on economic interconnections.
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2025/08/25
By CGTN’s Wu Lei
The Shanghai Spirit: The Guiding Philosophy of the SCO
BEIJING- Amid rising international pressures, Iranian President Masoud Pezeshkian’s upcoming participation in the Shanghai Cooperation Organization (SCO) Summit in China marks a pivotal moment for Tehran. Against the backdrop of growing geopolitical tensions and sweeping economic sanctions, Iran’s presence highlights its drive to strengthen ties with key Eurasian powers—anchored in the SCO’s guiding philosophy, the Shanghai Spirit.
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2025-08-23 14:01
By Li Yunqi
Title: A Persian handicraft shop bridging China and Iran
At least Majid and Massoud Shamaeizadeh are easy enough to tell apart by their voices. The twin brothers, though, are a different story. Not only do they share many same features, but on the day of the interview, they even wore the same shirt and glasses.
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2025-08-23 11:26
By Guo Yan
Across Time and Borders: The Enduring Journey of the K3/4 Train
The K3/4 China-Russia international train carries with it decades of people-to-people exchange between the two nations.
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2025-08-06 14:03
By Xu Yawen
The Forgotten Front: How China's War of Resistance Against Japanese Aggression Shaped WWII Victory
BEIJING- As we commemorate the 80th anniversary of China’s victory in the War of Resistance Against Japanese Aggression and the World Anti-Fascism War, it is time to re-examine the Eastern Front – a theater of war too often overlooked, despite the pivotal role it played in defeating fascism.
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2025-07-04 14:31
By Alexander Ayertey Odonkor (Special commentator on current affairs for CGTN)
From BRICS to BRICS+: Implications for the Global South
The upcoming 17th BRICS Summit in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, will, for the first time, host an expanded grouping of 11 members and 10 partner countries, marking a significant milestone in BRICS history. Originally composed of four members – Brazil, Russia, India and China in 2006 – with South Africa joining in 2011, BRICS, from 2024 to 2025, admitted six new members – Ethiopia, Egypt, Iran, Indonesia, Saudi Arabia and the United Arab Emirates – becoming BRICS+.
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2025-07-04 13:41
Greater BRICS in motion: Progress and prospects ahead
The 17th BRICS Summit is set to take place in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, from July 6 to 7. With its historic expansion, BRICS has entered a new stage of "Greater BRICS cooperation," characterized by broader participation, stronger representation, and rising global influence.
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2025-06-21 11:18
By Shahrokh Saei
Lenovo’s Tianjin revolution: Leading global charge in zero-carbon innovation, hybrid AI excellence
BEIJING- As part of an international media delegation, I recently had the opportunity to visit Tianjin, China — the host city of this year’s Shanghai Cooperation Organization (SCO) summit.
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2025-06-16 18:32
By Shahrokh Saei
CGTN Commentary Department: The strategic voice behind China’s global narrative
BEIJING — As one of the most prominent arms of China's international media, China Global Television Network (CGTN) continues to set a high standard in responsible journalism, narrative framing, and strategic communication.
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2025/06/16
By Ge Lin (CGTN economic commentator)
Latecomer advantage: Central Asia's prospects for embracing technology
Chinese President Xi Jinping's visit to Astana, Kazakhstan, on June 16 for the second China–Central Asia Summit marks another milestone in reviving a historic bond shaped by the ancient Silk Road — a shared civilizational journey linking China and Central Asia.
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2025-06-11 15:10
By Ge Lin (CGTN economic commentator)
China-US trade talks raise global hopes for America's self-correction
As senior officials from China and the United States met in London for the first meeting of the China-US economic, trade consultation mechanism, the world's attention is not only on the outcomes of the talks but also on how the US chooses to present itself and whether it can overcome its internal contradictions.
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2025-05-14 14:07
By Liang Junyan (Special commentator for CGTN)
No script can split China: Xizang's story isn't theirs to tell
Since last year, a number of "pro-Xizang independence" films have premiered one after another and two are reportedly set to be screened during this year's Cannes Film Festival period, though not as part of the festival itself. Both films attempt to whitewash the 14th Dalai Lama and portray the so-called "Tibetans in exile" in a sympathetic light. This reflects the Dalai Lama's long-standing tactic of using film festivals to generate momentum and draw international attention and sympathy to the so-called "Xizang issue" once again.
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2025-05-09 14:45
By Ge Lin
China and Russia's joint institutional innovation contributes to a dynamic world economy
At a time when global governance seems ensnared in the narrative of the so-called "Thucydides Trap"—the idea that a rising China will inevitably challenge, and potentially disrupt, the US-led global order—China and Russia are focusing on supplementing, rather than confronting, the Western-led post-Cold War global economic architecture through institutional co-creation.
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2025-05-06 15:26
By Shahrokh Saei
From fact-checking to fairness: How Chinese media challenges Western narratives
BEIJING- In an era dominated by Western media narratives—where misinformation can often be spun as fact—promoting independent voices from the Global South has never been more crucial.