diff --git a/.buildkite/cuda/test-merge.yml b/.buildkite/cuda/test-merge.yml
index 6bad98f79..5aa49ea6c 100644
--- a/.buildkite/cuda/test-merge.yml
+++ b/.buildkite/cuda/test-merge.yml
@@ -155,6 +155,7 @@ steps:
         source_file_dependencies:
           - tests/e2e/offline_inference/test_minicpmo_4_5.py
           - tests/e2e/online_serving/test_minicpmo_4_5.py
+          - vllm_omni/transformers_utils/chat_templates/minicpmo45_native.jinja
           - vllm_omni/model_executor/models/minicpmo_4_5/
           - vllm_omni/model_executor/models/step_audio2/
           - vllm_omni/model_executor/models/cosyvoice3/code2wav_core/
diff --git a/.buildkite/cuda/test-ready.yml b/.buildkite/cuda/test-ready.yml
index f54a58fa4..6d8d1e8b9 100644
--- a/.buildkite/cuda/test-ready.yml
+++ b/.buildkite/cuda/test-ready.yml
@@ -188,6 +188,7 @@ steps:
       - label: "Omni · MiniCPM-o 4.5 Online Test"
         source_file_dependencies:
           - tests/e2e/online_serving/test_minicpmo_4_5.py
+          - vllm_omni/transformers_utils/chat_templates/minicpmo45_native.jinja
           - vllm_omni/model_executor/models/minicpmo_4_5/
           - vllm_omni/model_executor/models/step_audio2/
           - vllm_omni/model_executor/models/cosyvoice3/code2wav_core/
diff --git a/pyproject.toml b/pyproject.toml
index 0393c9c62..2584c8c7a 100644
--- a/pyproject.toml
+++ b/pyproject.toml
@@ -161,7 +161,7 @@ where = ["."]
 include = ["vllm_omni*"]
 
 [tool.setuptools.package-data]
-"vllm_omni" = ["_version.py", "py.typed"]
+"vllm_omni" = ["_version.py", "py.typed", "transformers_utils/chat_templates/*.jinja"]
 
 [tool.setuptools_scm]
 # no extra settings needed, presence enables setuptools-scm
diff --git a/recipes/OpenBMB/MiniCPM-o-4_5.md b/recipes/OpenBMB/MiniCPM-o-4_5.md
index 86f0883f7..fb0934d4f 100644
--- a/recipes/OpenBMB/MiniCPM-o-4_5.md
+++ b/recipes/OpenBMB/MiniCPM-o-4_5.md
@@ -28,13 +28,13 @@ also provided.
 
 - Default deploy configs (auto-loaded by HF `model_type=minicpmo` +
   `hf_config.version="4.5"`):
-  - Default single-GPU compatibility layout (auto-loaded):
+    - Default single-GPU compatibility layout (auto-loaded):
     [`vllm_omni/deploy/minicpmo_4_5.yaml`](../../vllm_omni/deploy/minicpmo_4_5.yaml)
-  - Recommended 2-GPU continuous-batching layout:
+    - Recommended 2-GPU continuous-batching layout:
     [`vllm_omni/deploy/minicpmo_4_5_2gpu.yaml`](../../vllm_omni/deploy/minicpmo_4_5_2gpu.yaml),
-  - 3-GPU layout:
+    - 3-GPU layout:
     [`vllm_omni/deploy/minicpmo_4_5_3gpu.yaml`](../../vllm_omni/deploy/minicpmo_4_5_3gpu.yaml)
-  - 8x RTX 4090 layout:
+    - 8x RTX 4090 layout:
     [`vllm_omni/deploy/minicpmo_4_5_8x4090.yaml`](../../vllm_omni/deploy/minicpmo_4_5_8x4090.yaml)
 - Online example + Gradio demo:
   [`examples/online_serving/minicpmo/`](../../examples/online_serving/minicpmo/)
@@ -126,9 +126,20 @@ video. Use the two-GPU profile for production throughput.
 ```bash
 vllm serve openbmb/MiniCPM-o-4_5 --omni \
     --trust-remote-code \
+    --chat-template vllm_omni/transformers_utils/chat_templates/minicpmo45_native.jinja \
+    --chat-template-content-format openai \
     --host 0.0.0.0 --port 8099
 ```
 
+Run these commands from the repository root. The bundled chat template
+matches the Hugging Face `chat(omni_mode=True)` content layout: media and text
+parts are concatenated without adding separators, while whitespace explicitly
+included in a text part is preserved. This matters for speech generation because
+an inserted newline changes the Thinker condition passed to Talker. For image
+questions, place the image before the question, as in the native image-chat
+layout. Continue to request `use_tts_template: true` and
+`enable_thinking: false` for spoken answers.
+
 The deploy config is auto-loaded by the model registry — no
 `--deploy-config` flag needed for this default single-GPU layout.
 
@@ -271,6 +282,8 @@ uses GPU 5. GPUs 6–7 are left free.
 vllm serve openbmb/MiniCPM-o-4_5 --omni \
     --deploy-config vllm_omni/deploy/minicpmo_4_5_8x4090.yaml \
     --trust-remote-code \
+    --chat-template vllm_omni/transformers_utils/chat_templates/minicpmo45_native.jinja \
+    --chat-template-content-format openai \
     --host 0.0.0.0 --port 8099
 ```
 
diff --git a/tests/e2e/online_serving/test_minicpmo_4_5.py b/tests/e2e/online_serving/test_minicpmo_4_5.py
index 290064fc3..5417d2b16 100644
--- a/tests/e2e/online_serving/test_minicpmo_4_5.py
+++ b/tests/e2e/online_serving/test_minicpmo_4_5.py
@@ -24,6 +24,9 @@ from tests.helpers.stage_config import get_deploy_config_path, modify_stage_conf
 os.environ["VLLM_WORKER_MULTIPROC_METHOD"] = "spawn"
 
 _MODEL = "openbmb/MiniCPM-o-4_5"
+_NATIVE_CHAT_TEMPLATE = (
+    Path(__file__).resolve().parents[3] / "vllm_omni/transformers_utils/chat_templates/minicpmo45_native.jinja"
+)
 _CI_DEPLOY = modify_stage_config(
     get_deploy_config_path("minicpmo_4_5.yaml"),
     updates={
@@ -63,7 +66,14 @@ test_params = [
             model=_MODEL,
             stage_config_path=_CI_DEPLOY,
             use_stage_cli=False,
-            server_args=["--trust-remote-code", "--async-chunk"],
+            server_args=[
+                "--trust-remote-code",
+                "--async-chunk",
+                "--chat-template",
+                str(_NATIVE_CHAT_TEMPLATE),
+                "--chat-template-content-format",
+                "openai",
+            ],
             env_dict={
                 "VLLM_CONFIGURE_LOGGING": "1",
                 "VLLM_LOGGING_CONFIG_PATH": str(_PROMPT_LOGGING_CONFIG_PATH),
@@ -265,11 +275,18 @@ def test_image_to_text_audio_001(omni_server, openai_client) -> None:
     Input Setting: stream=True
     """
     image_data_url = f"data:image/jpeg;base64,{generate_synthetic_image(24, 24)['base64']}"
-    messages = dummy_messages_from_mix_data(
-        system_prompt=get_system_prompt(),
-        image_data_url=image_data_url,
-        content_text=get_prompt("text_image"),
-    )
+    # Match the native image-chat layout explicitly; do not rely on the
+    # renderer moving media placeholders ahead of text.
+    messages = [
+        get_system_prompt(),
+        {
+            "role": "user",
+            "content": [
+                {"type": "image_url", "image_url": {"url": image_data_url}},
+                {"type": "text", "text": get_prompt("text_image")},
+            ],
+        },
+    ]
 
     request_config = {
         "model": omni_server.model,
diff --git a/tests/model_executor/models/minicpmo_4_5/test_chat_template.py b/tests/model_executor/models/minicpmo_4_5/test_chat_template.py
new file mode 100644
index 000000000..8f1068392
--- /dev/null
+++ b/tests/model_executor/models/minicpmo_4_5/test_chat_template.py
@@ -0,0 +1,45 @@
+# SPDX-License-Identifier: Apache-2.0
+# SPDX-FileCopyrightText: Copyright contributors to the vLLM-Omni project
+"""MiniCPM structured-content rendering must preserve native part boundaries."""
+
+from pathlib import Path
+
+import pytest
+from jinja2 import TemplateError
+from transformers.utils.chat_template_utils import _compile_jinja_template
+
+pytestmark = [pytest.mark.core_model, pytest.mark.cpu]
+
+TEMPLATE = Path(__file__).resolve().parents[4] / "vllm_omni/transformers_utils/chat_templates/minicpmo45_native.jinja"
+
+
+@pytest.mark.parametrize(
+    "parts,expected",
+    [
+        ([{"type": "image"}, {"type": "text", "text": "Question?"}], "(<image>./</image>)Question?"),
+        ([{"type": "text", "text": "Question?"}, {"type": "image"}], "Question?(<image>./</image>)"),
+        ([{"type": "image"}, {"type": "text", "text": "\n\nQuestion?"}], "(<image>./</image>)\n\nQuestion?"),
+        ([{"type": "text", "text": " A "}, {"type": "text", "text": " B "}], " A  B "),
+        ([{"type": "audio"}, {"type": "text", "text": "Transcribe."}], "(<audio>./</audio>)Transcribe."),
+        ([{"type": "video"}, {"type": "image"}], "(<video>./</video>)(<image>./</image>)"),
+        ("\nKeep this whitespace.\n", "\nKeep this whitespace.\n"),
+    ],
+)
+def test_native_content_concatenation(parts, expected):
+    rendered = _compile_jinja_template(TEMPLATE.read_text()).render(
+        messages=[{"role": "user", "content": parts}],
+        add_generation_prompt=True,
+        enable_thinking=False,
+        use_tts_template=True,
+    )
+    assert rendered == (
+        f"<|im_start|>user\n{expected}<|im_end|>\n<|im_start|>assistant\n<think>\n\n</think>\n\n<|tts_bos|>"
+    )
+
+
+def test_unsupported_part_is_not_silently_discarded():
+    with pytest.raises(TemplateError, match="Unsupported MiniCPM-o content part"):
+        _compile_jinja_template(TEMPLATE.read_text()).render(
+            messages=[{"role": "user", "content": [{"type": "unknown"}]}],
+            add_generation_prompt=True,
+        )
diff --git a/vllm_omni/transformers_utils/chat_templates/minicpmo45_native.jinja b/vllm_omni/transformers_utils/chat_templates/minicpmo45_native.jinja
new file mode 100644
index 000000000..2f2bc9839
--- /dev/null
+++ b/vllm_omni/transformers_utils/chat_templates/minicpmo45_native.jinja
@@ -0,0 +1,116 @@
+{# SPDX-License-Identifier: Apache-2.0
+   Adapted from OpenBMB/MiniCPM-o-4_5 tokenizer_config.json.
+   Match chat(omni_mode=True): concatenate structured content parts without
+   injecting separators, preserving whitespace explicitly supplied as text.
+#}
+{%- set normalized = namespace(messages=[]) -%}
+{%- for message in messages -%}
+    {%- if message.content is string or message.content is none -%}
+        {%- set normalized.messages = normalized.messages + [message] -%}
+    {%- else -%}
+        {%- set content = namespace(text='') -%}
+        {%- for part in message.content -%}
+            {%- if part.type == 'text' -%}
+                {%- set content.text = content.text + part.text -%}
+            {%- elif part.type == 'image' -%}
+                {%- set content.text = content.text + '(<image>./</image>)' -%}
+            {%- elif part.type == 'audio' -%}
+                {%- set content.text = content.text + '(<audio>./</audio>)' -%}
+            {%- elif part.type == 'video' -%}
+                {%- set content.text = content.text + '(<video>./</video>)' -%}
+            {%- else -%}
+                {{- raise_exception('Unsupported MiniCPM-o content part: ' + part.type) -}}
+            {%- endif -%}
+        {%- endfor -%}
+        {%- set normalized.messages = normalized.messages + [dict(message, content=content.text)] -%}
+    {%- endif -%}
+{%- endfor -%}
+{%- set messages = normalized.messages -%}
+{%- if tools %}
+    {{- '<|im_start|>system\n' }}
+    {%- if messages[0].role == 'system' %}
+        {{- messages[0].content + '\n\n' }}
+    {%- endif %}
+    {{- "# Tools\n\nYou may call one or more functions to assist with the user query.\n\nYou are provided with function signatures within <tools></tools> XML tags:\n<tools>" }}
+    {%- for tool in tools %}
+        {{- "\n" }}
+        {{- tool | tojson }}
+    {%- endfor %}
+    {{- "\n</tools>\n\nFor each function call, return a json object with function name and arguments within <tool_call></tool_call> XML tags:\n<tool_call>\n{\"name\": <function-name>, \"arguments\": <args-json-object>}\n</tool_call><|im_end|>\n" }}
+{%- else %}
+    {%- if messages[0].role == 'system' %}
+        {{- '<|im_start|>system\n' + messages[0].content + '<|im_end|>\n' }}
+    {%- endif %}
+{%- endif %}
+{%- set ns = namespace(multi_step_tool=true, last_query_index=messages|length - 1) %}
+{%- for message in messages[::-1] %}
+    {%- set index = (messages|length - 1) - loop.index0 %}
+    {%- if ns.multi_step_tool and message.role == "user" and not(message.content.startswith('<tool_response>') and message.content.endswith('</tool_response>')) %}
+        {%- set ns.multi_step_tool = false %}
+        {%- set ns.last_query_index = index %}
+    {%- endif %}
+{%- endfor %}
+{%- for message in messages %}
+    {%- if (message.role == "user") or (message.role == "system" and not loop.first) %}
+        {{- '<|im_start|>' + message.role + '\n' + message.content + '<|im_end|>' + '\n' }}
+    {%- elif message.role == "assistant" %}
+        {%- set content = message.content %}
+        {%- set reasoning_content = '' %}
+        {%- if message.reasoning_content is defined and message.reasoning_content is not none %}
+            {%- set reasoning_content = message.reasoning_content %}
+        {%- else %}
+            {%- if '</think>' in message.content %}
+                {%- set content = message.content.split('</think>')[-1].lstrip('\n') %}
+                {%- set reasoning_content = message.content.split('</think>')[0].rstrip('\n').split('<think>')[-1].lstrip('\n') %}
+            {%- endif %}
+        {%- endif %}
+        {%- if loop.index0 > ns.last_query_index %}
+            {%- if loop.last or (not loop.last and reasoning_content) %}
+                {{- '<|im_start|>' + message.role + '\n<think>\n' + reasoning_content.strip('\n') + '\n</think>\n\n' + content.lstrip('\n') }}
+            {%- else %}
+                {{- '<|im_start|>' + message.role + '\n' + content }}
+            {%- endif %}
+        {%- else %}
+            {{- '<|im_start|>' + message.role + '\n' + content }}
+        {%- endif %}
+        {%- if message.tool_calls %}
+            {%- for tool_call in message.tool_calls %}
+                {%- if (loop.first and content) or (not loop.first) %}
+                    {{- '\n' }}
+                {%- endif %}
+                {%- if tool_call.function %}
+                    {%- set tool_call = tool_call.function %}
+                {%- endif %}
+                {{- '<tool_call>\n{"name": "' }}
+                {{- tool_call.name }}
+                {{- '", "arguments": ' }}
+                {%- if tool_call.arguments is string %}
+                    {{- tool_call.arguments }}
+                {%- else %}
+                    {{- tool_call.arguments | tojson }}
+                {%- endif %}
+                {{- '}\n</tool_call>' }}
+            {%- endfor %}
+        {%- endif %}
+        {{- '<|im_end|>\n' }}
+    {%- elif message.role == "tool" %}
+        {%- if loop.first or (messages[loop.index0 - 1].role != "tool") %}
+            {{- '<|im_start|>user' }}
+        {%- endif %}
+        {{- '\n<tool_response>\n' }}
+        {{- message.content }}
+        {{- '\n</tool_response>' }}
+        {%- if loop.last or (messages[loop.index0 + 1].role != "tool") %}
+            {{- '<|im_end|>\n' }}
+        {%- endif %}
+    {%- endif %}
+{%- endfor %}
+{%- if add_generation_prompt %}
+    {{- '<|im_start|>assistant\n' }}
+    {%- if enable_thinking is defined and enable_thinking is false %}
+        {{- '<think>\n\n</think>\n\n' }}
+    {%- endif %}
+    {%- if use_tts_template is defined and use_tts_template is true %}
+        {{- '<|tts_bos|>' }}
+    {%- endif %}
+{%- endif -%}