🏷️ About: This is the official app for China Global Television Network (CGTN), new international media organization. It was launched by the national broadcaster China Central Television (CCTV) on December 31, 2016.
- Ad-free experience
- Wide-ranging and fair coverage of news
- Digital assistant feature helps find news from Chinese perspective
- Provides a different narrative from Western media
- App works great
- Cool features like podcasts and articles
by Zinluver
CGTN is not working at all using iPhone. No News World China etc get loaded into APP when requested. It appears since the tariff war that this application has failed. I still can get this app News life using Chrome in the web not in CGTN !
by Boiu4298
Worked well until I got a push notification at 3 am threatening two tiny countries, Lithuania and Taiwan for committing the high crime of referring to Taiwan as a sovereign country. CCP, Hong Kong and Taiwan are both sovereign countries and you need to chill the F out!
by ITorpedo
Nice app, pleasing to view. Lots of news groups have these things, why use this one? Living in the USA I find myself more and more disdainful of the inept, highly opinionated and barefaced biases found on all the major (and lesser!) news sources here and western countries in general. They all have pretty apps too. I’m still in the first few days of trying this this app, hoping to find less opinions and just the facts. I can form my own opinions. So far it’s going ok. The opinion articles are clearly labeled as such in the headline. The live TV feature works well. So far my personal jury is still out as to whether or not this app will deliver the news in the manner I’m seeking but I’m giving them a good try and hoping for the best. Best of luck to them and thanks for their hard work.
Update after using a while...
Seeing many of the usual biases on USA reports. They parrot U.S. msm sources. Noticed the last story read was actually an AP story. I must assume the reports on China are similarly slanted. Deleted from device.
by Longlifetiki
If you want to read about news from a CCP perspective, then this is perfect. I follow it to see what they are saying about the US. Just be aware that it is directly from the mouth of the CCP, it is propaganda.
by YPL-2020
In the video archive, add the duration of the video do the video description.
by Luciousagrippa
Love CGTN easy to use and very smooth, hope they come out with the Spanish version
by T-Landons
We have China Global in our cable pkg. The news & programming are informative. I decided to have it on mu iPad.
by EricJ123987456
CGTN works smoothly and is a great extension of this app on my phone.
Unbiased and unfiltered news. This is the top-notch journalism that I always wanted.
Thank you this app for making this great app!
by Rbr7
Reporting the untold from a different perspective. Please add audio only function to live tv and other shows
by AA Ramzee
I am satisfied with the quality and range of news.
by Sommershade
I downloaded CGTN yesterday after reading a story on Facebook by CTGN. The first thing that made me wonder did I download an ad blocker on my phone? No. Who sponsored this so that it was ad free? I guess the Chinese Govt. If that is what they do, and I get to read various news stories without ads ever, I LOVE it! I can not even begin to tell you how many stories I just stop reading because hundreds of ads, accidentally clicking on them and getting frustrated because I can not get back to the story. I am so over being bombarded by ads of products I would never buy. Thanks for a clean news source.
Is their anyway to add weather to it? I would never have to go anyplace else. I am in the USA so it would be great. Thanks again.
Just to be clear no fees? No monthly sub? And no ads? Where has this kind of news been?
by Jarming Ho
From Chinese perspective, to listen a different narrative instead of only from the western voices.
by J527738
The digital assistant is really cool because it helps you find news from the Chinese perspective for the topics you want to read about. I have no complaints
by Doxsquared
I’m extremely pleased with your focused selections and coverage. Every country has its own biases, but your presentations appear to be fair and wide-ranging. I’m looking forward to future articles.
by The Prepper2016
This is a great news source I hate American and western mainstream media as it contains constant Cold War propaganda on socialist and anti imperialist countries this app is a great and reliable news source it’s so refreshing to see the world from a different anti imperialist viewpoint plus CGTN works great
by Stavvy Stan
I’m in the US and most media here tends to be extremely biased against indigenous peoples and self-determination of people, but since I’ve found this app, I’ve learned a lot of great information that western sources will never talk about
by Ducati996tom
I like the fact that you are interested informing the private sector on important news and information without inferring that the news is the result of conservatives or liberals mistakes or mismanagement. Just the important facts the world needs to know.
by Tyler847
I really love CGTN i think it works great and i love reading your news articles, the only thing i don’t like is that if you open a notification from CGTN or open CGTN all the other notifications go away which is annoying
by Micah Sparkle
I’m a huge fan of several of your programs especially Travelogue & Culture express as well as rediscovering China. Truly great programs. My wife who was born and raised in Taiwan and myself throughly enjoyed our trip to China. We were there in 2007. We stayed for three weeks at many different places. We will both be vaccinated with our second dose of covid vaccine in April. Can’t wait to go again. I only wish we didn’t need a visa for a two week stay. It just makes it longer to justify going more often. Btw, my wife does believe in the one China policy
by Jphymath
Hi CGTV, can you make some podcasts for us to listen? Only videos and articles may be too much info I have to take at one time.
by Barber2525
Love the obvious trolls paid by CCP to four- and five- star CGTN. It is what it is, state-run propaganda. Take it with the grain of salt.
by Meat_gun
The content seems to be mostly propaganda. In free countries people who are journalists do not agree exactly with the governments position 100% of the time.
by ChevD
Needs fixed.
by Wojtula
Your English is quite limited. Too simple nad vocabulaty needs expansion.
by BrandonPeart
Good app but I'm not getting any audio...
by Even Small
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by Kline_99
I love the new layout, but there is just one problem.
My iPad doesn’t get push notifications despite me setting that up and I have the same app on my iPhone and it DOES give me push notifications, which, I have set up.
I guess my advice is: please bring back push notifications for iPad.
by Sinologophous
hey there pls lizten I dislike autoplay more than any other part of news stories The videos are fine, but don’t make us load them especially cause it uses data
Ok devs pls help
我爱你
Signed sincerely by your dearest
sinologophagos the second
by Ford01SVTcobra
Finally works and looks great on my iPad Pro.
by HSTT!
Lots of News. 👍
I have contacted the CRTC, Canada's communications regulator, to determine whether the contents of your programming constitutes, propaganda and is thus inadmissible on Canadian Telecommunications platforms. I will endeavor to make sure that your transmission into Canadian households is terminated as China doesn't permit reciprocity for Canadian Broadcasters which is, totally unfair and unjust and can not continue to be tolerated by Canadian viewers. Thank you for your attention to my concerns and respond if you care about feedback from your viewers.
Yes. CGTN is very safe to use. This is based on our NLP (Natural language processing) analysis of over 377 User Reviews sourced from the Appstore and the appstore cumulative rating of 4.3/5 . Justuseapp Safety Score for CGTN Is 42.6/100.
Yes. CGTN is a totally legit app. This conclusion was arrived at by running over 377 CGTN User Reviews through our NLP machine learning process to determine if users believe the app is legitimate or not. Based on this, Justuseapp Legitimacy Score for CGTN Is 82.7/100..
CGTN works most of the time. If it is not working for you, we recommend you excersise some patience and retry later or Contact Support.
Our mission is to create a better understanding of international events across the world, bridging continents and bringing a more balanced view to global news reporting.
This is the official app for China Global Television Network (CGTN), new international media organization.
We believe the world is changing and that we live in a multipolar world, but many people still get their news from the same sources.
At CGTN, we cover the whole globe, reporting news from a Chinese perspective.
It was launched by the national broadcaster China Central Television (CCTV) on December 31, 2016.
Ultimately, we believe facts should speak for themselves and are committed to neutral, objective reporting.
