CCTV-4 Europe

CCTV-4 Europa (Broadcast for Europe and Africa, SDTV, and broadcast HD in France) is a 24-hour Chinese international channel. It is one of six China Central Television channels that broadcasts outside the People's Republic of China. This channel contains a variety of programs including documentaries, music, news, drama series, sports and children shows for Mainland China, Hong Kong, Macau and Taiwan. CCTV-4 was officially launched by President Yang Shangkun at President Palace of the People's Republic of China in Beijing in 1992. It started as a six-hour Chinese international channel. The programming of CCTV-4 initially consisted of a mixture of English and Chinese programming. English broadcasting stopped with the introduction of the English language channel CCTV-9 in September 2000. Select CCTV-4 programs were also broadcast in Cantonese until 2007, since when the channel has been broadcast in Mandarin Chinese only.