China News Thread
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RT managed to evade a ban for years. So if the news organization is careful enough to avoid political trip mines they can stay in business for a while.
Overall with RT being banned China needs to continue to invest in its media. Can't let western media dominate the narrative..
Yes, but the big focus shouldn't be trying to have an influence in the western sphere/countries, but aim for the rest of the world.
And in general chinese media have a lot of space for improvement and growth, and from the various signs, it seems like the chinese government is very much aware of this and putting in effort, although the fruits of that might be a bit slow and hard to spot.
Definitely, operating in western countries is kinda hopeless. It's hard to gain traction because of the severe anti-China sentiments. I think the rest of the world is more open to Chinese media.
IMO, the main problem with Chinese news is their content presentation. The way they present the story is too dry and boring. Need to make it spicy and entertaining for it to attract the general public. Funding is probably not an issue as China's economy is still going strong.
I think it is unwise to compare China and Russia. The West fears of China is real. Just look at how they try to shut down all Confucius institutions when these institutions pose no threat to the West whatsoever. And how MSM and the US internet giants banning Chinese accounts or label them as state sponsored before it were done to Russia. Basically, the West can't stop from bad mouthing China. That's why it is doubtful CGTN could make a dent in the West no matter how goods it became. Although, CGTN is still suck and needs to improve especially in the third world.
Problem with making it spicy and entertaining is that may just make it so that they are emulating the west, but I don't think wants to lie and be as 'black' as western media (not to mention they would lose in such a competition with the west lol).
Although yes, some of the news can be quite dry and boring, so they do have to try and experiment and make the news more interesting without resorting to sensationalism and the likes, a tougher road but it has to be done.
Chinese news shouldn't spread fake news like what western media does. However, a little bit of marketing hype is needed to make the story interesting to get everyone's attention. A balanced approach (news reporting + sprinkles of marketing) would be ideal..
China will complete the world's first railway loop around a desert, at 2,712 kilometers and around the vast Taklimakan Desert, when a new 825-kilometer section opens on Thursday in Northwest China's Xinjiang Uygur Autonomous Region, state-owned railway operator China State Railway Group announced on Wednesday.
The Hotan-Ruoqiang railway, which connects Hotan city in southwestern Xinjiang and Ruoqiang county in the southeast, with a journey taking just under 11 and a half hours, has a designed speed of 120 kilometers per hour and 22 stations. The line can be electrified in the future.
The Taklimakan Desert, with a size slightly smaller than Germany, is the world's second-largest shifting sand desert. The Hotan-Ruoqiang railway has 534 kilometers, or 65 percent of its total length, facing the threats of wind and sand, and engineers have battled with these problems since construction began in December 2018.
Five bridges with a total length of 49.7 kilometers were built with trains running on top of these bridges, while sand moves below. The builders created 50 million square meters of grass grids and planted 13 million sand-loving plants such as sea buckthorn to protect the railway.
Together with three existing railways that trim the desert, the operation of the Hotan-Ruoqiang railway will make the world's first railway loop around a desert a reality. The new line will further boost railway connections in the western border areas and facilitate the flow of people and goods, and the development of regions along their routes, with the effect of boosting ethnic unity, bolstering national defense and promoting rural revitalization, the company said.
Sun Zhang, a mass transit expert and professor at Shanghai Tongji University, told the Global Times on Wednesday that the loop railway's lift to regional economic development won't be measured by addition but by multiplication, and the railway is set to greatly boost the economy of southern Xinjiang.
The relatively low speed of the railway means it can carry both passengers and cargo, which will be a boon for the resource-rich region, Sun said.
With the construction of the China-Kyrgyzstan-Uzbekistan (CKU) railway seeing positive signs of getting started after years of delay, the loop railway connecting all parts of southern Xinjiang will help the circulation of goods both domestically and internationally. Kashi, a hub, could become a connecting point of international and domestic circulation, Sun predicted.
The CKU railway would potentially be the shortest route to transport goods from China to Europe and the Middle East, cutting the journey by 900 kilometers and saving seven to eight days of travel time.
As of the end of 2021, the total operating length of railways across China exceeded 150,000 kilometers, including more than 40,000 kilometers of high-speed railways.
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