Free Live TV Channels from China 🇨🇳

China has 151 free live channels indexed here, served by 314 separate streams. Of those, 53 play directly in a web browser with nothing to install, and 65 broadcast at 720p or better. The most widely carried are Shenzhen Satellite TV, Jiangsu Satellite TV, Jiangxi TV.

Coverage leans towards general (31), news (21), movies (10). Other channels indexed for China include CGTN, Liaoning TV, Shandong TV, CGTN Documentary, CGTN Spanish, Yunnan Satellite TV.

Chinese television is organised around provincial satellite broadcasters, and that shows clearly here: the most widely carried channels are the satellite services of individual provinces rather than national networks. Each province operates a broadcaster that transmits nationally by satellite while producing largely for its own region, which is a structure with no real equivalent in the other large countries in this index.

The practical problem is reach. Only around a third of the Chinese streams listed here will open in a browser, one of the weaker ratios in the dataset. The reasons are the ordinary technical ones this index measures everywhere, principally streams served over plain HTTP and endpoints that answer only to requests from inside the country, rather than anything specific to China.

General schedules and news lead the genres, with a smaller film presence behind them. The listing is close to entirely Chinese-language, though Mongolian appears in small numbers from broadcasters serving Inner Mongolia.

Where a channel offers more than one source it is worth trying each, since reachability here varies more by provider than by channel.