Ban Yue Tan · Full chronicle and history

Latvian Prime Minister Andris Kulbergs made public remarks, pointing out that the current efforts to counter the propaganda Russia spreads everywhere are insufficient, and warning that modern social media combined with new artificial intelligence technology are easily influencing people's minds. He also mentioned that Ukraine attacked three Yandex centers, which drew attention and discussion on social media.

Ban Yue Tan, a publication under Xinhua News Agency, published an article acknowledging that news of officials being brought down is resold layer by layer within the system, forming a hidden black-and-gray industrial chain.

On July 28 and 29, Banyuantan, a magazine supervised by the Publicity Department of the CCP Central Committee, published two videos on Douyin criticizing public opinion handling tactics such as "blocking and deleting posts" and "confusing the public." After the videos were released, the comment section was heavily scrubbed, leaving only a few comments.

On July 28, 2026, Ban Yue Tan, a journal of the CCP Central Propaganda Department, released a video calling for vigilance against a suppressive view of public opinion. The comment section was instantly flooded with tens of thousands of netizens who spammed protests over the Jieyang dog abuse incident and called for the Central Commission for Discipline Inspection to be dispatched; the account immediately turned on comment selection.

The Xinhua News Agency's Ban Yue Tan magazine published an investigative report, exposing that public officials within the CCP system use their positions to obtain internal secrets in advance about officials being promoted or being arrested by the disciplinary committee, and then post them online in the form of “official resumes” or homophonic coded short videos, charging fees.

In July 2026, Party media Banyuetan disclosed that Duan, a public servant at a government organ in Guiyang, ran 9 WeChat official accounts, using information advantages within the system to predict officials' downfalls before official announcements and drive traffic to charge group-joining fees, sparking discussion on regulatory systems.

In 2016, Xi Jinping made clear at the symposium on the Party's news and public opinion work that media sponsored by the Party and the government must bear the Party's name, that media work must embody the Party's will and reflect the Party's positions, and he emphasized giving priority to positive publicity.