Dear AIR colleagues, We are pleased to announce that our new open-access journal Global Media and China - co-produced by the SAGE and Communication University of China (CUC) - published its inaugural special issue on Media Narratives of China’s Future. We are also pleased to announce that the website for submission goes live, and we are ready to receive manuscripts at https://mc.manuscriptcentral.com/gmac <https://mc.manuscriptcentral.com/gmac>. For more information about Global Media and China, please go to gch.sagepub.com <http://gch.sagepub.com/>, you can also find detailed submission guidelines there. You can freely read this inaugural issue at: http://gch.sagepub.com/content/current <http://gch.sagepub.com/content/current> Editorials Daya Thussu Editorial Liao Xiangzhong New hope, new global media and China Introduction Thomas A Hollihan and Zhan Zhang Media narratives of China’s future Articles Patricia Riley, Rong Wang, Yuehan Wang, and Lingyan Feng Global warming: Chinese narratives of the future Cara Wallis and Anne Balsamo Public interactives, soft power, and China’s future at and beyond the 2010 Shanghai World Expo Zhan Zhang A narrative future for Europe-China economic relations after the financial crisis Ye Lu, Yajie Chu, and Fei Shen Mass media, new technology, and ideology: An analysis of political trends in China Paul SN Lee The rise of China and its contents for discursive power Hiroko Okuda China’s “peaceful rise/peaceful development”: A case study of media frames of the rise of China Roundtable Discussion Monroe Price, Jack Qiu, Jiang Fei, Thomas Hollihan, and Zhan Zhang Roundtable Discussion of “Media Narratives and China’s Future" All the best, Xiao Han Xiao Han (PhD) Research Assistant, Communication University of China, CUC Commissioning Editor, Global Media and China (SAGE), gch.sagepub.com <http://gch.sagepub.com/>