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Ethnic broadcasting in China

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Ethnic broadcasting in China comprises both radio and TV broadcasting for some of the numerous ethnic groups within the country. Stations are found on the administrative levels of the nation as a whole, provinces, prefectures,[1] and counties.[2][3] They form a part of the ethnic media of China.

Map of ethnic groups in China
Autonomous administrative divisions of China

National level

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Radio

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CMGNational Radio (CNR)
中央广播电视总台 – 中央人民广播电台 (央广)
Programme Language
مەركىزىي خەلق رادىيو ئىستانسىسى‎ ; Merkiziy xelq radiyo istansisi Uyghur Radio
维吾尔语广播 ; Wéiwú'ěryǔ guǎngbò
ئۇيغۇرچە رادىيو‎ ; Uyghurche radiyo
Uyghur
ورتالىق حالىق راديو ستانسياسى‎ ; Ortalyq xalyq radio stansiasy Kazakh Radio
哈萨克语广播 ; Hāsàkèyǔ guǎngbò
قازاق راديوسى‎ ; Qazaq radiosy
Kazakh
ཀྲུང་དབྱང་མི་དམངས་ཀུན་ཁྱབ་རླུང་འཕྲིན་ལས་ཁུངས། ; Krung-dbyang mi-dmangs kun-khyab rlung-'phrin las-khungs Tibetan Radio
藏语广播 ; Zàngyǔ guǎngbò
བོད་སྐད་འཕྲིན་ལམ། ; Bod skad 'phrin lam
Tibetan
ᠲᠥᠪ ᠦᠨ
ᠠᠷᠠᠳ ᠤᠨ
ᠷᠠᠳᠢᠣ᠋
ᠨᠡᠪᠲᠡᠷᠡᠭᠦᠯᠭᠡ ᠵᠢᠨ
ᠬᠣᠷᠢᠶ᠎ᠠ
 ; Töb-ün arad-un radio nebteregülge-ǰin qoriya
Sounds of the Nationalities
民族之声 ; Mínzú zhīshēng
Mongolian, Korean
중앙인민방송국 ; Jungang inmin bangsongguk

Television

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On television there are dubbed versions of the main central news programme Xinwen Lianbo in minority languages.

CMGCentral TV (CCTV)
中央广播电视总台 – 中国中央电视台 (央视)
News broadcast: 新闻联播 ; Xīnwén liánbò Language
جۇڭگو مەركىزىي تېلېۋىزىيە ئىستانسى‎ ; Junggo merkiziy tëlëwiziye istansi مەملىكەت خەۋەرلىرى خەلقئارا خەۋەرلەر‎ ; Memliket xewerliri xelqara xewerler Uyghur
جۇڭگو ورتالىق تەلەۆيزياسى‎ ; Juñgo ortalyq televiziasy مەملەكەتتىك حالىقارالىق حابارلار‎ ; Memlekettyk xalyqaralyq xabarlar Kazakh
ཀྲུང་གོ་ཀྲུང་དབྱང་བརྙན་འཕྲིན། ; Krung-go krung-dbyang brnyan-'phrin གསར་འགྱུར་མཉམ་བསྒྲགས། ; Gsar 'gyur mnyam bsgrags Tibetan
ᠬᠢᠲᠠᠳ ᠤᠨ
ᠲᠥᠪ
ᠲᠧᠯᠸᠢᠰ
 ; Qitad-un töb telvis
ᠲᠥᠪ
ᠲᠧᠯᠸᠢᠰ ᠦᠨ
ᠰᠣᠨᠢᠨ
ᠮᠡᠳᠡᠭᠡᠨ ᠦ
ᠳᠠᠮᠵᠢᠭᠤᠯᠬᠤ
ᠨᠡᠪᠲᠡᠷᠡᠭᠦᠯᠭᠡ

Töb telvis-ün sonin medegen-ü damǰiɣulqu nebteregülge
Mongolian
중국중앙텔레비전 ; Jungguk jungang tellebijeon 국내외뉴스 ; Gungnaeoe nyuseu Korean

Provincial and prefectural level

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On provincial level there were 36 broadcasters in 2022; 8 of them had minority language programmes. On prefectural level there were about 350 broadcasters; about 40 of them carried programmes in minority languages.[1]

Station Programme Language
Xinjiang Radio and Television
(until 2018 XJBS and XJTV)
新疆广播电视台 ; Xīnjiāng guǎngbò diànshìtái
شىنجاڭ رادىيو-تېلېۋىزىيە ئىستانسىسى‎ ; Shinjang radiyo-tëlëwiziye istansisi
شينجياڭ راديو-تەلەۆيزيا ستانسياسى‎ ; Şinjiañ radio-televizia stansiasy
ᠰᠢᠨᠵᠢᠶᠠᠩ ᠤᠨ
ᠷᠠᠳᠢᠣ᠋ ᠲᠧᠯᠸᠢᠰ
ᠬᠣᠷᠢᠶ᠎ᠠ
 ; Sinǰiyang-un radio telvis qoriya
Uyghur General Radio
维吾尔语综合广播 ; Wéiwú'ěryǔ zònghé guǎngbò
ئۇيغۇرچە ئۈنۋېرسال رادىيو‎ ; Uyghurche ünwërsal radiyo
Uyghur
Traffic and Arts Radio
维吾尔语交通文艺 ; Wéiwú'ěryǔ jiāotōng wényì
قاتناش سەنئەت رادىيوسى‎ ; Qatnash sen'et radiyosi
Kazakh Radio
哈萨克语广播 ; Hāsàkèyǔ guǎngbò
قازاق راديوسى‎ ; Qazaq radiosy
Kazakh
Mongolian Radio
蒙古语广播 ; Ménggǔyǔ guǎngbò
ᠮᠣᠩᠭᠣᠯ
ᠬᠡᠯᠡᠨ ᠦ
ᠷᠠᠳᠢᠣ᠋
 ; Moŋɣol qelen-ü radio
Mongolian
Kyrgyz Radio
柯尔克孜语广播 ; Kē'ěrkèzīyǔ guǎngbò
قىرعىز رادىيوسۇ‎ ; Qirğiz radiyosu
Kyrgyz
XJTV-2 Uyghur Information Channel
ئاخبارات ئۇنىۋېرسال قانىلى‎ ; Axbarat uniwërsal qanili
Uyghur
XJTV-5 Drama Channel
تىياتىر قانىلى‎ ; Tiyatir qanili
XJTV-9 Economic Life Channel
ئىقتىساد-تۇرمۇش قانىلى‎ ; Iqtisad-turmush qanili
XJTV-3 Kazakh News Channel
حابار امبەباپ ارناسى‎ ; Habar ämbebap arnasy
Kazakh
XJTV-8 Variety Channel
الۋان ونەر ارناسى‎ ; Aluan öner arnasy
XJTV-12 Multilingual Children's Channel
ئۆسمۈرلەر قانىلى‎ ; Ösmürler qanili
Chinese, Uyghur, Kazakh

On prefectural level there were 13 stations with programmes in Uyghur (including Ürümqi), Kazakh (Ili, Tacheng, Altay), Kyrgyz (Kizilsu), and Mongolian (Bortala and Bayingolin). Within the 8th Division of the Xinjiang Production and Construction Corps there was the Shihezi People's Broadcasting Station with programmes in Uyghur.

Station Programme Language
Inner Mongolia Radio and Television
(until 2016 NMRB and NMTV)
内蒙古广播电视台 ; Nèiménggǔ guǎngbò diànshìtái
ᠥᠪᠦᠷ ᠮᠣᠩᠭᠣᠯ ᠤᠨ
ᠷᠠᠳᠢᠣ᠋ ᠲᠧᠯᠸᠢᠰ
ᠬᠣᠷᠢᠶ᠎ᠠ
 ; Öbür Moŋɣol-un radio telvis qoriy᠎a
Өвөр Монголын радио телевиз хороо
Mongolian Radio
蒙语广播 ; Méngyǔ guǎngbò
ᠮᠣᠩᠭᠣᠯ
ᠷᠠᠳᠢᠣ᠋
 ; Moŋɣol radio
Монгол радио
Mongolian
Voice of the Grassland
草原之声 ; Cǎoyuán zhīshēng
ᠲᠠᠯ᠎ᠠ ᠶᠢᠨ
ᠳᠠᠭᠤ
ᠬᠣᠭᠤᠯᠠᠢ
 ; Tal-a-yin daɣu qoɣulai
Талын дуу хоолой
Satellite TV Channel
蒙古语卫视频道 ; Ménggǔyǔ wèishì píndào
ᠣᠳᠤᠨ
ᠲᠧᠯᠸᠢᠰ
 ; Odun telvis
Одон телевиз
Culture Channel
蒙语文化频道 ; Méngyǔ wénhuà píndào
ᠰᠣᠶᠤᠯ
ᠰᠢᠨᠵᠢᠯᠡᠭᠡ
 ; Soyul sinǰilege
Соёл шинжилгээ

On prefectural level there were 12 stations with programmes in Mongolian (including Hohhot and Ordos).

In Liaoning there was 1 station with programmes in Mongolian on prefectural level (Fuxin).

Station Programme Language
Heilongjiang Radio and Television
黑龙江广播电视台 ; Hēilóngjiāng guǎngbò diànshìtái
Heilongjiang Korean Broadcasting Station (since 1963)
흑룡강 조선어 방송국 ; Heungnyonggang joseoneo bangsongguk
Korean

In Jilin there was 1 station with programmes in Korean on prefectural level (Yanbian).

Station Programme Language
Yanbian Radio and Television (YBRT)
延边广播电视台 ; Yánbiān guǎngbò diànshìtái
연변라지오TV방송국 ; Yeonbyeon rajio TV bangsongguk
General News
뉴스종합방송 AM ; Nyuseu jonghap bangsong
Korean
Literary Life
문예생활방송 FM ; Munye saenghwal bangson
Yanbian Satellite (since 2006)
연변위성 ; Yeonbyeon wiseong
YBTV-1
연변TV1 ; Yeonbyeon TV1
(News: 연변뉴스 ; Yeonbyeon nyuseu)
YBTV-2
연변TV2 ; Yeonbyeon TV2
Station Programme Language
Tibet Radio and Television
(until 2018 CTB and XZTV)
西藏广播电视台 ; Xīzàng guǎngbò diànshìtái
བོད་ལྗོངས་རླུང་འཕྲིན་བརྙན་འཕྲིན་ལས་ཁུངས། ; Bod ljongs rlung 'phrin brnyan 'phrin las khungs
Tibetan Broadcasting
བོད་སྐད་རྒྱང་བསྒྲགས། ; Bod skad rgyang bsgrags
Tibetan
Science and Education Radio
ཚན་རིག་སློབ་གསོའི་རླུང་འཕྲིན། ; Tshan rig slob gso'i rlung 'phrin
Khams Radio
ཁམས་པའི་སྐད་ཆ་རླུང་འཕྲིན། ; Khams pa'i skad cha rlung 'phrin
Khams Tibetan
Tibetan Television
བོད་སྐད་བརྙན་འཕྲིན། ; Bod skad brnyan 'phrin
Tibetan

On prefectural level there were 7 stations with programmes in Tibetan (including Lhasa).

Station Programme Language
Qinghai Radio and Television
青海广播电视台 ; Qīnghǎi guǎngbò diànshìtái
Qinghai Tibetan Radio
མཚོ་སྔོན་བོད་སྐད་རྒྱང་སྒྲོག། ; Mtsho sngon bod skad rgyang sgrog
Amdo Tibetan
Amdo TV
ཨ་མདོ་བརྙན་འཕྲིན། ; A mdo brnyan 'phrin

On prefectural level there were 2 stations with programmes in Tibetan (Haixi and Yushu).

In Gansu there was 1 station with programmes in Tibetan on prefectural level (Gannan).

Station Programme Language
Gannan Radio and Television (GNRTV)
甘南广播电视台 ; Gānnán guǎngbò diànshìtái
ཀན་ལྷོ་རྒྱང་སྒྲོག་བརྙན་འཕྲིན་ཁང། ; Kan lho rgyang sgrog brnyan 'phrin khang
Radio Amdo Tibetan
GN-2
Station Programme Language
Sichuan Radio and Television (SRT)
四川广播电视台 ; Sìchuān guǎngbò diànshìtái
Sichuan Ethnic Radio
四川民族广播 ; Sìchuān mínzú guǎngbò
སི་ཁྲོན་མི་རིགས་རླུང་འཕྲིན། ; Si khron mi rigs rlung 'phrin
ꌧꍧꊿꋅꅇꁊ ; Sypchuo cocux ddopput
Khams Tibetan, Nuosu
Kangba TV (SCTV-11)
康巴卫视网 ; Kāngbā wèishì wǎng
ཁམས་པའི་བརྙན་འཕྲིན་དྲ་བ། ; Khams pa'i brnyan 'phrin dra ba
Khams Tibetan

On prefectural level there were 2 stations with programmes in Tibetan (Garzê and Ngawa) and 1 station with programmes in Nuosu (Liangshan).

Station Programme Language
Yunnan Media Group (YMG)
云南广播电视台 ; Yúnnán guǎngbò diànshìtái
Ethnic Radio
民族广播 ; Mínzú guǎngbò
Tai Lü, Tai Nüa, Jingpo, Lahu, Lisu

On prefectural level there were 3 stations with minority language programmes (Dêqên Tibetan, Dehong Dai and Jingpo, Xishuangbanna Dai).

Station Programme Language
Guangxi Radio and Television (GXBTV)
广西广播电视台 ; Guǎngxī guǎngbò diànshìtái
Zhuang news
Vahcueng Sinhvwnz
壮语新闻 ; Zhuàng yǔ xīnwén
Zhuang

References

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Literature

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  • NRTA: 国家广播电视总局 播出机构(频道)
  • Hóngxiá, Sī; Xiăohuá, Lĭ (2013), "Use of language in radio and television broadcasting", in Yŭmíng, Lĭ (ed.), The language situation in China, vol. 1, De Gruyter, pp. 85–96, ISBN 978-1-61451-311-7
  • Abduweli Yusup (2009), Die Fernsehnutzung von uigurischen Kindern und Jugendlichen in Xinjiang: einen Weg zur gesellschaftlichen Integration? [Uyghur children's and youngster's TV viewing in Xinjiang: a way towards social integration?] (Thesis) (in German), Erfurt: Universität, urn:nbn:de:gbv:547-200900052