Monitor Mercantil is a Brazilian business newspaper founded in 1912 in Rio de Janeiro, currently operating as a digital publication covering finance, economics, and markets. Its editor-in-chief and co-owner, Marcos de Oliveira, also serves as an advisor to the Brazil-China Cultural Exchange Chamber of Commerce. De Oliveira has traveled to China on multiple occasions since at least 2017, when he attended the BRICS Media Forum in Beijing, and has given interviews to Xinhua News Agency. The newspaper hosts a dedicated Belt and Road (Cinturão e Rota in Portuguese) section in partnership with Xinhua and joined the Belt and Road News Network (BRNN) in 2022 – a Beijing-based media alliance chaired by People’s Daily, the official newspaper of the Chinese Communist Party’s Central Committee. Monitor Mercantil has also conducted joint reporting trips with People’s Daily across five Brazilian states covering Chinese corporate projects, and de Oliveira published an article directly in People’s Daily in October 2025 praising China’s Five-Year Plan — content subsequently shared by the Chinese Consulate-General in Rio de Janeiro and the Chinese Ministry of Foreign Affairs spokesperson’s official accounts. In July 2025, the newspaper co-organized the 7th BRICS Media and Think Tank Forum in Rio de Janeiro alongside Xinhua.