On the afternoon of October 29, CUEB and Beijing Daily Group held a signing ceremony and symposium at the headquarters of Beijing Daily Group.

Tang Yiyuan, President of Beijing Daily Group and Chairperson of the Editorial Committee, and Liu Ying, Party Secretary of CUEB, attended and delivered an address. Also present were Zhang Dongping, Editor-in-Chief and Deputy Chairperson of the Editorial Committee of Beijing Daily Group; Peng Yu, Vice President of the Group, Member of the Editorial Committee, and Editor-in-Chief of Beijing Youth Daily; Yan Xuejing, Deputy Editor-in-Chief of the Group, member of the Editorial Committee, and Editor-in-Chief of Beijing Evening News; Zhang Xiufeng, Deputy Party Secretary of CUEB; Yang Kui and Yin Zhichao, members of the Standing Committee of CUEB Party Committee and Vice Presidents; and Fu Lin, Member of the Standing Committee of CUEB Party Committee, Director of the Publicity Department of CUEB Party Committee and Director of the News Center..

Tang Yiyuan, on behalf of Beijing Daily Group, extended a warm welcome to the CUEB delegation. He noted that the Group and CUEB enjoy a solid foundation for cooperation and have carried out fruitful cooperation in various fields, and that this signing marks a new starting point for bilateral cooperation. He stressed that, as the Party newspaper group of the capital, the Group always upholds the principle that Party newspapers belong to the Party, gives full play to the credibility and authority of Party newspapers, accelerates its transformation in the process of systemic reform of mainstream media, and promotes all-round innovation in communication content, forms and channels. At present, mainstream media face major opportunities and challenges in the era of intelligent communication. The Group will continue to leverage its resource and platform strengths, strengthen project alignment with CUEB, deepen pragmatic cooperation, deepen bilateral cooperation and deliver tangible outcome, and bring forth mutual empowerment and win-win development.

Liu Ying noted that CUEB and Beijing Daily Group maintain close ties and have a profound foundation for cooperation. The year 2026 marks the 70th anniversary of the founding of CUEB, the opening year of the university’s 15th Five-Year Plan (2026–2030), and a critical year for advancing high-quality development. At present, the university is going all out to build a new high ground for the research and interpretation of Xi Jinping Thought on the Economy, advance the digital and intelligent transformation of personnel cultivation, and promote a renewed and enhanced quality of international education. She emphasized that CUEB will rely on its strengths in disciplines, think tanks and talents, give full play to the roles of its departments, schools and platforms, and work hand in hand with Beijing Daily Group to break new ground, expanding cooperation into broader fields and deeper levels, such as digital and intelligent empowerment and the commercialization of research findings, so as to explore new cooperation models and breakthrough paths amid the wave of the intelligent economy and achieve win-win development.

Zhang Xiufeng and Yan Xuejing signed, on behalf of the two sides, the Framework Agreement on Strategic Cooperation Between CUEB and Beijing Daily Group, formally establishing a long-term and stable strategic cooperation relationship.

The signing is a major step for CUEB in building a new high ground for the research and interpretation of Xi Jinping Thought on the Economy, deepening university-media cooperation, and expanding channels of external publicity. It aims to empower the high-quality development of a high-level research university and a new-type mainstream media group, and to contribute to the functional development of the capital as “four centers”, namely the national political center, the cultural center, the international exchange center, and the scientific and technological innovation center. Going forward, the two sides will carry out in-depth exchanges and sharing in theoretical research, ideological and political education, personnel cultivation, the construction of think-tanks, and other fields, push university-media collaboration to greater depth, and build a new cooperation paradigm featuring mutual empowerment.

Before the symposium, CUEB delegation visited the history exhibition of Beijing Daily Group, where they learned about the Group’s development over more than 70 years and its achievements in media convergence.

Officials from relevant departments of Beijing Daily Group and CUEB attended the signing ceremony and symposium.