7th World Media Summit opens in Beijing
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Source: PR Newswire · Xinhua News Agency · View original release
BEIJING, Nov. 7, 2026 /PRNewswire/ — The 7th World Media Summit held its opening ceremony in Beijing on Saturday under the theme “Media in the Intelligent Age: From Consensus to Action.”

This photo taken on Nov. 7, 2026 shows a scene of the opening ceremony of the 7th World Media Summit in Beijing, capital of China. The summit kicked off here on Saturday. (Xinhua/Shen Hong)
Xinhua News Agency and the Beijing municipal government jointly organized this year’s summit, which runs from Thursday to Monday.
It drew nearly 500 representatives from nearly 330 mainstream media outlets, think tanks and government bodies from 112 countries and regions, as well as the United Nations and other international organizations.
Li Shulei, a member of the Political Bureau of the Communist Party of China (CPC) Central Committee and head of the Publicity Department of the CPC Central Committee, delivered a keynote speech at the opening ceremony.
The World Media Summit was initiated in 2009 and is now a major global platform for media exchange and cooperation. The last summit was held in Urumqi, the capital city of northwest China’s Xinjiang Uygur Autonomous Region, in 2024.
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