CGTN Documentary

{{short description|Chinese English-language pay television channel}}

{{about|the documentary television channel formerly known as CCTV-9|its Chinese version|CCTV-9}}

{{more citations needed|date=June 2017}}{{Infobox television channel

| name = CGTN Documentary

| logo = CGTN Documentary.svg

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| image =

| launch_date = {{Start date and age|2011|01|01|df=y}}

|closed =

| language = English

| picture_format = 1080i HDTV
(downscaled to 576i/480i for the SD feed)

| area = Worldwide

| owner = China Central Television

| former_names = CCTV-9 Documentary
{{small|(2011 - 2016)}}

| website = {{Official URL}}

| type = State media

| country = China

| terr_serv_1 = Digital TV
{{small|Hong Kong}}

| terr_chan_1 = Channel 34 (HD)

| terr_serv_2 = Digital TV
{{Small|(Macau)}}

| terr_chan_2 = Channel 74

| terr_serv_3 = DStv (Sub-Saharan Africa)

| terr_chan_3 = Channel 448

| terr_serv_4 = Zuku TV (Kenya)

| terr_chan_4 = Channel 413

| online_serv_1 = CGTN Documentary

| online_chan_1 = {{Official URL}}

}}

CGTN Documentary (formerly CCTV-9 Documentary) is a state-run English-language documentary channel operated by the China Global Television Network (CGTN) group, owned by Chinese state broadcaster China Central Television (CCTV). It broadcasts documentaries in the English language, and is China's first state-level English-language documentary channel to broadcast globally.

It used to share the "CCTV-9" name with its sister documentary channel in Mandarin Chinese. The channel has also been known to carry some Mandarin-language programmes with English subtitles; it broadcasts new programming between 7:00pm and 11:00pm Beijing time, and repeats archival programming at other times.{{Citation needed|date=March 2012}}