Green Dragon Club
The Green Dragon Club, also known in some news reports as the “Green Dragon Dragon Boat Club,” is a local Chinese community organization based in Prato, Italy, that maintains strong connections with Wenzhou, Zhejiang province, from which a large proportion of the local Chinese population originates. Founded in 2016, the club currently has 65 members who are all Wenzhou Chinese living and working in Prato. The president of the club as of 2023 was Deng Jianyi (鄧建義), a businessman from Wenzhou’s Lucheng District who led a 37-day motorcycle expedition covering 14,000 kilometers through seven Eurasian countries before returning to Wenzhou in July 2023. In February 2025, the club was designated as both an “overseas communication base” and “liaison office” of the Wenzhou International Communication Center (溫州國際傳播中心), a local government media organization established in May 2024 as part of China’s international communication strategy.