Second Silk Road Global News Awards announced in Kunming, SW China's Yunnan

​The 2nd Silk Road Global News Awards was announced at the 2025 Media Cooperation Forum on Belt and Road held in Kunming, southwest China's Yunnan Province on Sept. 16, 2025.

(People's Daily/Jiang Yushi)

All awards are initially evaluated by the academic committee, finalized by the judging committee, and then approved by the members of the Belt and Road News Network (BRNN) council.

Highlights included Colin Stevens, editor-in-chief of EU Reporter, who won Best Reporting for "China's Belt & Road: Building Bridges not Walls." Argentine photographers Renato Valentini, Rocío Vellón and others took home Best Photography Award for their photo essay "CRRC New Energy Trains Roll into Jujuy." Best Video went to "In the Book of my Dreams" by News.am from Armenia, while "Documentary: Treasures and Masks," a co-production by Egyptian Television and China Media Group, was honored with the Best Innovation Award.

The 2nd Silk Road Global News Award, hosted by the BRNN and organized by the BRNN council chair, People's Daily, features four categories—Best Reporting, Best Photography, Best Video, and Best Innovation.

Since its call for submissions from April 2024, the 2nd Silk Road Global News Awards received nearly 5,000 entries from 110 countries and regions. The awards recognized a total of 58 works from 37 countries, with four grand prizes, 16 nominations and 38 finalist awards.

The Belt and Road News Network is a key platform for media cooperation within the BRI framework. The Silk Road Global News Award is the Belt and Road News Network’s flagship brand event and the only international journalism award within the Belt and Road Initiative’s multilateral cooperation framework.

The 2nd Silk Road Global News Awards is included in the list of multilateral cooperation deliverables of the Third Belt and Road Forum for International Cooperation.