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Jinan Opens Propaganda Hub in Frankfurt

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On December 2, 2024, the Jinan International Communication Center (濟南國際傳播中心), a municipal external propaganda platform guided by the propaganda office of the Jinan CCP Committee (濟南市委宣傳部), opened a German branch in Frankfurt together with the German bureau of Nouvelles d’Europe (歐洲時報). Sun Shihui (孫世會), then executive deputy head of the propaganda office, and Hu Xudong (胡旭東), editor-in-chief of the paper’s German bureau, attended the unveiling. Jinan named Hu an honorary overseas promoter of “Spring City culture” (泉城文化海外推薦官), after the city’s nickname, formally enlisting a newspaper editor to market Jinan abroad. The two sides also signed an international communication agreement. According to the Jinan Daily (濟南日報), the official newspaper of the Jinan CCP Committee, the center had placed more than 30 articles promoting the city’s “high-quality development” in Nouvelles d’Europe since 2023, echoing a Xi Jinping slogan that the leadership has treated as the fundamental requirement for economic policy since 2017. The report said the branch would widen Jinan’s international “circle of friends” (朋友圈), invoking a CCP notion of friendship that ties foreign goodwill to alignment with China’s positions, and that the center would “tell China’s story well” (講好中國故事). The Jinan Daily called Nouvelles d’Europe Europe’s “most influential” Chinese-language daily. The Paris-based paper is in fact owned by a company controlled by the CCP’s United Front Work Department. The Jinan center is one of many local international communication centers that Beijing has promoted since 2018 to raise China’s “discourse power.”

ACJA and Nigeria Union of Journalists Sign Memorandum

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In May 2024, the official All-China Journalists Association (中華全國新聞工作者協會), or ACJA, a Chinese Communist Party-led professional association that serves a key role in implementing press control policies, signed a memorandum of understanding with the Nigeria Union of Journalists at the union’s national secretariat in Abuja. NUJ President Christopher Isiguzo said the agreement, which he described as signed “on behalf of every journalist in Nigeria,” would bring exchange visits and training programs. He said Nigerian journalists would attend a forum in China that August “courtesy of the MoU.” That was the ACJA’s Belt and Road Journalists Forum in Chongqing, where the association launched its International Home of Journalists program for foreign journalist organizations. Wu Xu (吳旭), the ACJA executive secretary who led the Chinese delegation, said the agreement would “promote cooperation and friendship.” The memorandum’s terms were not made public. The NUJ has held a seat on the presidium of the ACJA-led Belt and Road Journalists Network since 2019, and Isiguzo served as the network’s chairman-in-office in 2023.

Bridging News Opens Office at Brazilian Press Association

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On November 8, 2024, the Brazilian Press Association (巴西新聞協會), or ABI, signed a strategic cooperation agreement in São Paulo with Chongqing’s Western International Communication Center (西部國際傳播中心), or WICC, to set up a Bridging News Brazil Liaison Office. The agreement was reported by Forum Macao (中國—葡語國家經貿合作論壇), a Macau-based platform backed by the Chinese government, citing the ABI. Bridging News is one of the WICC’s international platforms. The WICC is run by the Chongqing Daily News Group (重慶日報報業集團) under the guidance of the municipality’s propaganda office, and it was China’s first provincial-level international communication center, or ICC. ICCs are local and regional hubs created under Xi Jinping’s push since 2018 to reinvent China’s international communication, which the Chinese Communist Party still calls “external propaganda” (對外宣傳). They repurpose local propaganda content for foreign audiences. ABI Director of Journalism Moacyr de Oliveira Filho and WICC Director Zhao Wujun signed the agreement at an event promoting Chongqing brands in Brazil. According to the report, the office will promote Chongqing’s brands in Brazil and Latin America and support financial news reporting and services for Chinese companies seeking to expand in Brazil. The agreement came two months after the ABI joined the International Home of Journalists (國際記者之家), a network run by the official All-China Journalists Association (中華全國新聞工作者協會), or ACJA, a Chinese Communist Party-led professional association that serves a key role in implementing press control policies.

Brazilian Press Association Signs ACJA Memorandum

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On June 16, 2025, the Brazilian Press Association (ABI), founded in 1908 and one of Brazil’s oldest press organizations, signed a memorandum of understanding in Rio de Janeiro with the official All-China Journalists Association (中華全國新聞工作者協會), or ACJA, a Chinese Communist Party-led professional association that serves a key role in implementing press control policies, according to the ABI. Wu Xu (吳旭), a member of the ACJA Secretariat, signed for the Chinese side. The memorandum formalized a relationship that began in 2023. In August 2024, the ABI was admitted to the International Home of Journalists (國際記者之家), an ACJA initiative that recruits foreign journalist associations into a China-centered network. In November of that year, the ABI began hosting a liaison office for Bridging News, a news service run by China’s West China International Communication Organization.

Brazilian Press Association Joins Chinese Journalist Network

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On August 31, 2024, the Brazilian Press Association (ABI), founded in 1908 and one of Brazil’s oldest press organizations, received a membership certificate for the International Home of Journalists (國際記者之家) at the 2024 Belt and Road Journalists Forum in Chongqing. According to a related announcement from the Brazilian association, ABI Director of Journalism Moacyr de Oliveira Filho accepted the certificate from He Ping (何平), president of the official All-China Journalists Association (中華全國新聞工作者協會), or ACJA, a Chinese Communist Party-led professional association that serves a key role in implementing press control policies. The forum opened with remarks by Mo Gaoyi (莫高義), deputy head of China’s Central Propaganda Department. The ABI reported that He urged members to build new narrative structures that would “transcend ideology, social systems and levels of development.” The ABI was among 22 organizations approved for the program that year. The association said its ties with the ACJA date back to 2023, and that its admission to the International Home of Journalists would deepen cooperation. In November 2024, the West China International Communication Organization opened a Bridging News liaison office at the ABI to support news services for Chinese companies seeking to expand in Brazil. In June 2025, the ABI signed a memorandum of understanding with the ACJA in Rio de Janeiro.

Anhui ICC Europe Station Opens in Milan

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On September 21, 2026, a delegation from the Anhui International Communication Center (安徽国际传播中) inaugurated the “Anhui ICC Europe station” (安徽国际传播中心欧洲站). Anhui News Online described the development as an “important step” in extending the center’s overseas reach and expanding its “circle of friends” (朋友圈), or willing partners, to amplify Chinese messaging in Europe. The delegation was hosted by the China Chamber of Commerce in Italy. The center aims to promote Anhui Province and will also provide communication support for Anhui firms entering European markets. Based in Milan and “radiating across Europe,” the station will work with local media, chambers of commerce, enterprises, and cultural institutions. It will also produce multimedia content that promotes Anhui technology, marketing, and tourism, showing a “modern and beautiful image of Anhui.”

Chongqing Firm Signs TV Programming Deal With Peru’s Willax

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In November 2024, Chongqing Jiazuo Media (重慶佳左影視文化傳媒有限公司) signed a “China Time Slot” agreement with Peru’s Willax Televisión to air Spanish-dubbed Chinese productions. The titles include the series Three-Body (三體), a Chinese adaptation of Liu Cixin’s novel The Three-Body Problem, the series Stand or Fall (閃耀的她), and the documentary Once Upon a Bite 2 (風味人間2). The launch was guided by the State Council Information Office (國務院新聞辦公室) and the National Radio and Television Administration (國家廣播電視總局), or NRTA, the State Council’s ministry-level agency regulating China’s radio, television and online video. A co-host for the launch was the propaganda office of the Chongqing CCP Committee, together with the culture committee of Peru’s Congress. On November 14, Xi Jinping promoted the broadcasts in a signed article in El Peruano, Peru’s official government gazette. “China Time Slot” is the Latin American branding of the NRTA’s “TV China Theater” program, which places Chinese content in fixed time slots on foreign channels. Jiazuo set up a Latin American subsidiary in Peru in 2018 under the guidance of Chongqing’s culture commission, and it claims to have opened such slots in more than ten Latin American countries. Its general manager, Zuo Yue (左越), was named to the NRTA’s 2023 leading talent program for international communication. Willax is majority-owned by the business group of Erasmo Jesús Rolando Wong Lu Vega (黃業生), who presides over the association that manages Lima’s Chinese-funded Centro de la Amistad Peruano China (Peruvian-Chinese Friendship Center).

Chongqing ICC Opens Bridging News Bureau in Lima

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On November 5, 2024, the Western China International Communication Organization (西部國際傳播中心), or WCICO, opened a Lima liaison office for Bridging News (陸海財經), a communication brand of the Chongqing international communication center intended for global external propaganda (外宣). It was the second such office after Rome. The local partner was Classic Media China Internacional SAC (經典傳媒中國國際有限公司). The company describes itself as the branch of a Chinese company supplying audiovisual material to television broadcasters, and in April 2024 it renewed a friendship agreement with EcuadorTV, Ecuador’s public broadcaster. WCICO also signed a strategic partnership agreement with the Peru edition of [Chinese Headlines](https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.cooby.headline&hl=enUS) (華人頭條), a news app for overseas Chinese run by the Fujian-based company Fujian Kebi Information Technology (福建可比信息科技有限公司). Guan Hong (管洪), executive deputy head of the propaganda office of the Chongqing CCP Committee, presented Classic Media with a plaque designating it the Peru base of First Sight TV, a Chongqing video brand. The office was opened at a “China: An Opportunity, Chongqing Brands” promotion event at the Centro de la Amistad Peruano China. That venue, built with a 20-million-yuan donation from the Chinese government, is managed by a Chinese-Peruvian civil association presided over by Erasmo Jesús Rolando Wong Lu Vega (黃業生), a businessman and former civil engineer. Wong founded the Asociación Peruano China in 1999, and his business group holds a majority stake in the Peruvian broadcaster Willax Televisión. Wong also appears in the Panama Papers as a shareholder of a British Virgin Islands company incorporated in 2014. WCICO claimed more than 200 attendees and live coverage by RPP TV. The same week, Chongqing Jiazuo Media (重慶佳左影視文化傳媒有限公司), which WCICO’s iChongqing platform called Chongqing Masterwork Media in a related report, [signed a “China Time Slot” agreement](https://web.archive.org/web/20261012043628/https://gbdsj.gd.gov.cn/zxzx/hydt/content/post4522146.html) with Willax to air Spanish-dubbed Chinese television series and documentaries. The agreement was signed under the guidance of China’s State Council Information Office and National Radio and Television Administration.

Chongqing ICC Opens Bridging News Bureau in Rome

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On September 1, 2024, the Western China International Communication Organization (西部國際傳播中心), or WCICO, signed a strategic cooperation agreement with the Rome 9 Sino-Italian Economic and Cultural Exchange Center. The agreement created the first overseas liaison office of Bridging News (陸海財經), one of WCICO’s core brands for what China’s leadership calls “external propaganda” (外宣). The center, also known as the Roma 9 Association, is headed by Hu Lanbo (胡蘭波). Hu publishes Cina in Italia, the Italian edition of China Newsweek (中國新聞週刊), which is published by the state-run China News Service (中國新聞社). Citing Intelligence Online, Decode39 reported in 2023 that Chinese Ambassador to Italy Jia Guide (賈桂德) had long relied on Roma 9 to organize events he could not host at the embassy. The signing took place at the first overseas stop of WCICO’s “China: An Opportunity — Chongqing Brands” global promotion campaign. The event was organized under the guidance of the Chongqing municipal government’s information office. Zhang Qiong (張瓊), deputy head of the propaganda office of the Chongqing CCP Committee, spoke alongside Rome city councilor Carla Formariello. WCICO said the Rome office would support Chongqing-Italy cooperation in financial reporting, industry expansion, cultural exchange, and tourism promotion. The campaign later reached Lima, São Paulo, Singapore, Cairo, and Kuala Lumpur.