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France
The Centre culturel de Chine à Paris (Paris China Cultural Center) is a Chinese cultural institution in France that China's Ministry of Culture and Tourism has described as part of a network that is described by as an 'official non-profit cultural institution dispatched by the Chinese government,' whose mission is to promote Chinese culture abroad. Inaugurated on November 29, 2002, as the first such center in a Western country, it was jointly opened by then-Vice Premier of the State Council Li Lanqing (李嵐清) and forme…
France
The French Ministry of Culture (Ministère de la Culture) is the government ministry responsible for national museums, historic monuments, the national archives, and the promotion of the arts in France — covering also the performing arts, visual arts, cinema, and audiovisual production. It operates a national network of museums, regional cultural centers (maisons de culture), and archive sites. The Ministry defines, coordinates, and evalu…
France
Les Amis de Wu Jianmin is a Paris-based cultural association, founded in 2017 in memory of Wu Jianmin (吳建民), who served as Chinese Ambassador to France from 1998 to 2003 and died in a road accident in Wuhan in June 2016. The association promoted Sino-French bilateral exchanges through an annual scholarship that apparently ran annually from 2017 to 2019,
China, France
On April 17, 2026, the Paris Chinese Cultural Center hosted an event that brought together scholars, publishers, and industry representatives from both countries, focusing on technological innovation and cross-cultural communication in the age of artificial intelligence. The event, "Encounter China: Civilization Exchange Dialogue" (遇鑒中國」文明交流對話會), was organized by China International Communications Group (中國國際傳播集團), or CICG, a state-controlled media organization. According …
China
On April 14, 2026, China Daily (中國日報), a state-run English-language newspaper under the direct supervision of the Chinese Communist Party's Propaganda Department, co-hosted a cultural exchange event titled "From Yunnan to the World: Cultural Fusion in a Cup of Coffee" (從雲南到世界，一杯咖啡里的文化交融) at Beijing Foreign Studies University (北京外國語大學). Co-organizers included the Pu'er Municipal Committee of the Chinese Communist Party, the Pu'er Municipal People's Government, and the university's School of International Journalism and Communication. The event featured …
China
The Pu'er Municipal Committee of the Chinese Communist Party (中國共產黨普洱市委員會) is the leading political organ of the Chinese Communist Party in Pu'er (普洱), a prefecture-level city in southern Yunnan Province. As with all municipal-level party committees in China, it exercises authority over local governance, personnel appointments, economic planning, and ideological work within its jurisdiction, operating above — and directing — the Pu'er Municipal People's Government. The city was known as Simao (思茅) from 1950 — following the Communist victory in the Chinese Civil War — until January 2007, when China's State Council approved its renaming to Pu'er. Ac…
Vietnam
Trung Nguyen Legend Coffee Group (中原傳奇咖啡集團), formally registered as Trung Nguyen Legend Corporation, is a Vietnamese privately held coffee company headquartered in Ho Chi Minh City. According to the company's own milestones page, it was founded on June 16, 1996, by Dang Le Nguyen Vu in Buon Ma Thuot, Vietnam's main coffee-producing city. Multiple industry sources identify Le Hoang Diep Thao as co-founder and co-owner of the group,
Spain
On August 7, 2014, China’s state-run Xinhua News Agency and the Observatorio de la Política China signed a cooperation agreement in Madrid, allowing both entities to exchange information and analysis and organize joint seminars. The ceremony was presided over by Zhu Bangzao (朱邦造), China's ambassador to Spain. According to the Observatory, the agreement also supports the circulation of its publications on Chinese politics, including Jiexi Zhongguo (解析中國), a journal of analysis on China, the Taiwan Week…
Spain
The Observatorio de la Política China (OPCh) is a research group founded in 2004 by Galician sinologist Xulio Ríos under the Instituto Galego de Análise e Documentación Internacional (IGADI), a Spain-based think tank, and with backing from Casa Asia, a public diplomacy consortium backed by the Spanish government that produces analysis on the Asia-Pacific region. The OPCh says its focus is on Chinese legal reform, human rights, cross-Strait unification, a…
Spain
El Semanal de La Mancha is a weekly Spanish-language newspaper based in Castilla-La Mancha, a comunidad autónoma (autonomous community) of central Spain comprising the provinces of Toledo, Ciudad Real, Cuenca, Guadalajara, and Albacete. It was founded in 2009 by a group of local journalists and media professionals as a self-employment cooperative, following the closure of the regional weekly Canfali, which its founders said left a significant information an…
Spain
El País is a Spanish-language daily newspaper founded on May 4, 1976, during the country's transition to democracy following the death of dictator Francisco Franco, whose authoritarian regime had controlled Spain's press for nearly four decades. Based in Madrid and owned by the Prisa media conglomerate, it was the first major Spanish newspaper to operate independently of Franco’…
Spain
Mundo Global is a Spanish-language digital publication under the Spanish group Cátedra China, a nonprofit organization founded in November 2012 in Madrid by Marcelo Muñoz, a veteran Spanish businessman in China. The publication describes itself as a platform for research, opinion pieces, interviews, and analysis on China and its relationship with the world, with particular emphasis on the bilateral link between Spain and China. Its content is primarily written by Cáted…
Spain
Prisa Group (Promotora de Informaciones, S.A.) is a Spanish media conglomerate founded in 1972. The group was initially established to support the launch of the newspaper El País. The group's major brands include El País, the radio network Cadena SER, the music brand Los 40, the sports daily AS, and the educational publisher Santilla…
China
The China International Development Cooperation Agency, or CIDCA (國家國際發展合作署), is a deputy ministerial-level agency directly under China's State Council, formally established on April 18, 2018. The agency was created by merging foreign aid responsibilities previously handled by the Ministry of Commerce with input from the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, with the stated aim of strengthening strategic coordination of aid. CIDCA drafts aid strategy, sets budgets, approves projects, negotiate…
Spain
Spanish Radio and Television Corporation (Corporacion de Radio y Television Espanola or RTVE) is Spain's state-owned public broadcasting corporation, established in 1973 through a merger of Radio Nacional de España (RNE) and Televisión Española (TVE), with its current structure established in 2007. RTVE operates five domestic television channels — including the generalist La 1 and La 2, news channel 24 Horas, children's channel Clan, and sports channel Teledeporte — alongside
Spain
El Triangle is a Catalan-language weekly newspaper based in Barcelona, founded in January 1990. It describes itself as prioritizing "investigative journalism and analysis." The weekly newspaper has both a print edition and a bilingual (Catalan and Spanish) website, with an active presence on social media platforms including X and Facebook. The publication displays the lo…
Spain
El Periódico de España is a daily publication launched on October 12, 2021. It covers politics, economics, international affairs, sports, and entertainment, and was conceived as an alternative to Madrid-centric national dailies, with the willingness to offer a more regionally diverse point of view. The publication features regional editions with local news from across Spain. Initially published…
Spain
The Chinese Consulate General in Barcelona (中华人民共和国驻巴塞罗那总领事馆) is China's only consulate in Spain, opened in Barcelona's centrally located Sarrià-Sant Gervasi district. Its consular district covers the four provinces of the Catalonia autonomous community: Barcelona, Girona, Lleida, and Tarragona. Operating under the supervision of the Chinese Embassy in Madrid, the consulate provides visa and passport services, consular protection for Chinese nationals, and promotes economic, cultural, and educational ties between China and Catalonia. The Consulate has been actively engaged in outreach activities across Catalonia, including
Spain
On February 26, 2025, Chinese Ambassador to Spain Yao Jing (姚敬) published an article in the digital newspaper El Periódico de España titled "There Is No Room for Ambiguity in UN General Assembly Resolution 2758." In the article, he argued that UN General Assembly Resolution 2758 — which transferred China's seat in the United Nations from the Republic of China (Taiwan) to the People's Republic of China in October 1971 — settled Taiwan's status as part of China. Not surprisingly, Yao’s argument perfectly mirrored the Chinese Communist Party's
China, Spain
In August 2025, 26 Spanish journalists and analysts traveled to Beijing for a ten-day training course on China, organized by the China International Communications Group (中國國際傳播集團), a state media organization established in 1949 and directly under the CCP's Central Propaganda Department. The course was co-sponsored by the China International Development Cooperation Agency (國家國際發展合作署), Beijing's foreign aid body under the State Council,
