2026-10-30
On October 30, the official TBS website continued to update promotional information for Season 2 of "VIVANT". The plot page still indicated that Episode 23 will air on November 1, failing to respond to CCTV's suspension request.
2026-10-29
On October 29, CCTV published an article claiming that the second season of the Japanese drama 'VIVANT' is a 'political tool disguised as art,' dismissed the explanation from the president of TBS as 'sophistry,' and demanded that they face history, sincerely repent, stop airing the series, and apologize to the Chinese people.
2026-10-26
On October 26, the Chinese Communist Party's 20th Central Committee Fifth Plenary Session opened, and CCTV reported on it.
2026-10-26
From the evening of October 26, China Media Group halted broadcasts of La Liga matches, all games involving Mbappé, and advertisements featuring him. The trigger was Mbappé saying "Chinese dictator" during an interview when discussing face-swap memes of Mao Zedong.
2026-10-26
From October 26, CCTV's "Focus Report" launched a three-part series "The Power of Thought," systematically interpreting the scientific connotation, theoretical character, practical basis and theoretical origins of Xi Jinping's thinking on Party building.
2026-10-25
On the eve of the 81st anniversary of Taiwan's Retrocession Day on October 25, CCTV released a video of multiple landmarks in Taiwan captured by the Jilin-1 satellite, with facilities such as the Chiang Kai-shek Memorial Hall, the National Palace Museum in Taipei, and Taipei Port clearly visible.
2026-10-23
On October 23, a netizen posted a video complaining that during CCTV News’ live broadcast of the rescue effort after the magnitude 7.0 earthquake in Baqing County, Nagqu, Tibet, the on-site reporter frequently used filler words such as “uh” and “this part,” conveying almost no useful information in three minutes, prompting netizens in the comments section to mock the report.
2026-10-13
On October 13, a netizen uploaded to Douyin a video of a person squatting beside a roadside trash can eating. The comments section posted a screenshot of an interview bearing the CCTV logo saying "Right now I am nothing but happiness, just happiness" along with memes, satirizing the contrast between official happiness propaganda and reality.
2026-10-11
On October 11, CCTV's "Financial Investigation" exposed that the vast majority of greenhouses in the Qian'an-Shouguang off-season vegetable demonstration zone in Songyuan, Jilin, have been idle for six years. The project illegally occupied nearly 1,000 mu of permanent basic farmland and received over 37 million yuan in subsidies, yet it remains a mere facade.
2026-10-06
On October 6, Xinhua News Agency reported on the National Day film market with “Celebrating the National Birthday with Light and Shadow, New Trends Surging in the Market,” while CCTV Finance said the market’s heat continues to climb, placing the National Day box office breaking 1 billion yuan alongside the 480 billion yuan output value of the entire film industry chain.
2026-10-05
On October 5, CCTV aired the first episode of the documentary 'The Sword is Drawn', exposing the criminal inner workings of telecom fraud compounds in northern Myanmar, including luring victims with high-paying jobs, illegal border crossing, detention, violence, forced debt notes, trafficking between compounds, and even the harvesting of organs to pay off debts.
2026-10-03
On October 3, CCTV Online reported that the cumulative box office for 2026 had surpassed 30 billion yuan, with admissions exceeding 760 million, saying the film market maintained steady vitality and hit a record high for the same period in history. The written transcript of Xinwen Lianbo also used this wording, but did not explain the statistical criteria.
2026-09-29
On September 28, Lin Shidong defeated Wang Chuqin 4:0 in the Asian Games table tennis men's singles final to take the gold. On September 29, in an image accompanying a CCTV News report, Lin Shidong's gold medal appeared silver while Wang Chuqin's silver medal looked gold, and the composition was also accused of favoring the runner-up, sparking controversy among netizens.
2026-09-28
China's Xinhua News Agency and CCTV reported that the US-China leaders' meeting reached an eight-point consensus, and listed cooperation in the AI field as a major achievement, promoting the idea of joint China-US governance of AI.
2026-09-25
On the evening of September 25, the live stream comment sections of multiple official channels broadcasting the CCTV Mid-Autumn Festival Gala were flooded by netizens calling on the state to introduce an animal cruelty prevention law as soon as possible and commemorating Wangwang, an animal killed in a previous abuse incident.
2026-09-16
On September 16, CCTV News reported that a shopping mall in Hebi, Henan hung posters of figures like Yuan Longping, Tu Youyou, and Zhang Guimei, praising them as the top-tier stars of the Chinese nation. Data from September 17 showed the video received 170,000 likes, but the comment section had only 74 comments, sparking public skepticism over comment control.
Location: Hebi own content archive. ·
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Verification: Reported ·
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2026-09-06
On September 6, 2026, CCTV News reported the latest casualties from the August 26 major mudslide disaster in Gyirong County, Tibet. Officials confirmed that 43 people have been killed and 519 remain missing, but a detailed list of the victims has not yet been released.
Location: Shigatse, Tibet ·
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Verification: Official claim ·
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2026-09-05
On September 5, 2026, a historical video of an earlier CCTV report showing police listing workers demanding unpaid wages as targets to be dealt with in a counter-terrorism drill resurfaced on social networks, triggering public criticism and heated debate over the stigmatization of the group of workers demanding unpaid wages.
2026-09-03
On September 3, officials released news claiming that troops entering the Gyirong disaster area carried field kitchens, providing hot meals in a timely manner to support search and rescue operations; CCTV broadcast footage of stoves being set up on site and cooking.
Location: Gyirong County, Tibet ·
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2026-09-03
CCTV published a report packaging a rural female teacher from Henan who had traveled to Gyirong in Tibet to visit relatives as an army wife, claiming that after the mudslide she voluntarily chopped vegetables, prepared dishes and packed boxed meals, embodying a sense of duty to family and country; cadres in her hometown in Henan also organized to publicize her deeds.
Location: Gyirong County, Tibet ·
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2026-08-30
CCTV+ live broadcast recorded Xi Jinping coughing multiple times while watching the performance, but that evening's edited version of CCTV's Xinwen Lianbo did not retain the relevant footage.
2026-08-12
On August 12, 2026, when a documentary on Jiang Zemin's life broadcast by CCTV reviewed the 1989 events, the footage unexpectedly showed in full the World Economic Herald front page slogan about speaking the truth, sparking discussion among netizens.
2026-08
The CCTV report described the disaster as a mudslide on the Nepalese side, broadcast no footage from the scene, and did not mention specific casualty or missing-person figures.
2026-08
The CCP is collaborating with CCTV and pro-unification KOLs to study history textbooks used by Taiwanese students, aiming to develop a new generation of united front brainwashing narratives targeting the Taiwanese people in an attempt to divide Taiwanese society and supporters of various political parties.
2026-07-21
On July 21, 2026, netizens noticed that Yuanyuantantian, a new media account under CCTV, deliberately erased the Chinese Armed Police markings on a loudspeaker when it published official propaganda images of a maritime standoff in the South China Sea. After facing questions from netizens, it turned on comment selection.
2026-06-21
After Japan defeated Tunisia 4-0 in the World Cup group stage, netizens questioned CCTV sports commentators for showing a clear bias toward Tunisia, criticizing them for bringing extreme nationalism and personal stances into sports events.
2026-06-15
On June 15, 2026, Xi Jinping’s birthday, a national symposium on Party building was held in Beijing, where “Xi Jinping Thought on Party Building” was put forward for the first time. On the same day, CCTV released the current affairs short film “Communist Party Member Xi Jinping,” drawing attention at home and abroad.
2026-06-10
On June 27, 2026, CCTV issued a statement protecting its exclusive broadcast rights for the US-Canada-Mexico World Cup, banning the distribution of clips. Subsequently, the social media accounts of well-known football fan influencer "Tuiqian Ge" ("Refund Bro") and others were punished with platform bans for posting match footage.
2025-11-29
After the short film was released, it drew mockery from netizens and was subsequently taken down by CCTV.
2025-11-28
On November 28, CCTV, together with Meituan, released a short film in which a white-collar graphic designer quits her job to deliver food, saying that food delivery brings freedom and brings her closer to her dreams; the film drew widespread mockery from netizens.
2025-10-03
CCTV reported on October 3, 2025 that as of October 2, 2025, the cumulative annual box office had exceeded 42.5022 billion yuan and admissions had exceeded 1 billion, in contrast to the 760 million admissions reported in 2026.
2025-10
In October 2025, it was rumored online that a person claiming to be a China Central Television (CCTV) employee submitted a contribution to an overseas blogger, revealing that political jokes mocking Xi Jinping were circulating privately inside CCTV, and claiming that internal censorship had edited out large amounts of footage of his verbal gaffes and outbursts during public speeches.
2025-03-08
CCTV released the “Taiwan Is Bound to Return” poster, compiling reposts by Taiwanese artists such as Patty Hou, Mark Chao and Angela Chang; netizens subsequently called out other artists by name.
2025-02-09
CCTV exposes rare internal details of the Rocket Force's underground nuclear Great Wall, boasting of a 5,000-kilometer super-project and intercontinental missile silos, constructing a so-called doomsday survival fortress.
2024-05-23
After Lai Ching-te took office as Taiwan's president, CCTV released a poster about unification, which Taiwanese artists successively reposted; Chinese netizens compiled a list of those who had and had not expressed a stance.
2023-10-19
Liu Fangfei posted on Weibo to confirm that she officially left CCTV in June of that year after working there for 21 years, and will focus on culture-related careers in the future.
2022-10-12
Bai Yansong interviewed Liang Wannian on the program News 1+1, raising nine questions about the economic cost and necessity of the dynamic zero-COVID policy; the program only arranged for Liang Wannian alone to answer and reiterated the policy's rationality.
2021-06-26
CCTV broadcast a large-scale symphony, vocal, and poetry performance celebrating the 100th anniversary of the founding of the Chinese Communist Party (CCP), featuring Andy Lau and Na Ying singing "Pearl of the Orient".
2021
Chen Peisi serves as the first mentor on CCTV's Gold Medal Comedy Class, returning to the CCTV variety stage after more than 20 years away.
2017
From 2017 onward, the finale slot of the CCTV Children's Day Gala was taken over by politically charged songs such as "We Are the Successors of Communism" in place of "Songs and Smiles."
2016
"Songs and Smiles" once again occupied the closing finale position at the 2016 CCTV June 1 Gala.
2015-03-10
Minister of Human Resources and Social Security Yin Weimin introduced the gradual delayed retirement policy at the Two Sessions press conference. That evening, CCTV's "Two Sessions 1+1" made it a key topic, and Bai Yansong explained it on the program as an inevitable trend whose benefits outweigh its drawbacks.
2014
"Songs and Smiles" once again served as the closing finale number at the 2014 CCTV June 1 Gala.
2013
“Songs and Smiles” was placed at the very end as the closing number of the 2013 CCTV Children’s Day Gala.
2003-08-19
Bai Yansong resigned from his positions as producer of News Meeting Room, China Weekly, and Time and Space Link because he felt that the producer role made his expression mediocre and led to self-censorship, while retaining his role as host.
2001
At the 2001 annual meeting of CCTV's "Tell It Like It Is" program team, a satirical comedy short, "Division of the Family in October," was produced, in which colleagues openly mocked Bai Yansong's rationalizing, brow-furrowing, preachy style by remixing Soviet films and their character names.
1993-05-01
“Oriental Horizon” officially went on air, and Bai Yansong, from a temporary planner, was pushed in front of the camera, ushering in a period of public opinion supervision later known as the “mini spring” of CCTV news.