The professional association of foreign journalists in Beijing.

The Foreign Correspondents’ Club of China welcomes President Hu Jintao’s pledge to uphold the legal rights of foreign journalists in China and calls on the Chinese government to make good on this promise. The FCCC also urges international media organizations attending the World Media Summit in Beijing to press China to keep its word on [...]

The Foreign Correspondents’ Club of China has received many complaints from members about severe problems with the allocation of passes for China’s Oct. 1 National Day parade, and a lack of transparency about the process. Journalists who did get passes got them late at night, after many hours of waiting. Other passes remained unclaimed after [...]

The Foreign Correspondents’ Club of China strongly condemns the assault by unidentified people on three reporters working for Japan’s Kyodo News Agency. According to Kyodo, the three journalists were attacked, hit and pushed to the ground on the evening of Sept. 18. Some of their equipment was also damaged. The three were covering a rehearsal [...]

A year after the 2008 Beijing Olympics, the Foreign Correspondents’ Club of China (FCCC) says the relaxed reporting rules made permanent after the Games have made travel easier for foreign correspondents. However, intimidation of sources and domestic staff mar this progress toward internationally acceptable reporting conditions. While foreign correspondents are still denied access to the [...]