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Micromedia Communication Italy

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Micromedia Communication Italy (意大利微視傳媒) is a Milan-based media and marketing company founded in late 2016 by Jiang Jiakun (江家昆), who serves as its chief executive. Located in the city’s Chinatown district, the company describes itself as a comprehensive international media firm handling brand promotion, overseas film and video production, exhibition events, and online and offline media placement, serving Italian clients seeking access to the Chinese market as well as Chinese businesses seeking exposure in Italy and across Europe. Its English-language website claims partnerships with more than 50 traditional media outlets, 300 online platforms, and 100 magazines across Italy and Europe; a separate Chinese-language description of the company puts the figure at more than 400 European outlets. Jiang has also served as a director of the Italian Chinese Entrepreneurs Association (意大利華人企業協會), an overseas Chinese business group whose leadership described itself in 2022 as operating under the guidance of China’s Consulate General in Milan. The company also operates a Bilibili account under the Micromedia name, which had posted 178 videos as of August 2026, with content spanning practical guidance for Chinese residents in Italy on healthcare, housing, education, childbirth, and telecommunications, business and investment advice for Chinese entrepreneurs, and, during the early phase of the COVID-19 pandemic in 2020, coverage promoting a medical team from Zhejiang province dispatched to assist Italy and an online concert framed around Chinese communities “resuming work and production,” extending the company’s messaging directly to a mainland Chinese audience through a domestic PRC platform rather than only to Italy’s Chinese diaspora. In July 2026, the company signed a cooperation agreement with the Henan International Communication Center, a provincial international communication center under the Henan Daily Press Group, on projects including tourism and cultural content promotion.

Kyrgyz Ministry of Science, Higher Education and Innovation

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The Ministry of Science, Higher Education and Innovation of the Kyrgyz Republic is a government body responsible for scientific research, higher education, intellectual property, and innovation policy. President Sadyr Japarov established the ministry by decree on May 12, 2025, splitting it off from the former Ministry of Education and Science along with the State Agency for Intellectual Property and Innovation. A companion body, the Ministry of Education, retained responsibility for pre-school, primary, and secondary education. As part of the reorganization, the former National Accreditation Commission became the Higher Attestation Commission under the new ministry, and the State Intellectual Property Fund was transferred to it as well. The ministry now serves as the state authority overseeing Kyrgyzstan’s public universities, including their founding status, accreditation, and cooperation agreements with foreign institutions.

China Road and Bridge Corporation

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China Road and Bridge Corporation (中國路橋工程有限責任公司), or CRBC, is a Chinese state-owned construction and engineering firm and a wholly owned subsidiary of China Communications Construction Company (中國交通建設股份有限公司). According to the company’s own account, it traces its origins to the Ministry of Transport’s Foreign Aid Office, established in 1958 to carry out Chinese government aid projects overseas, and was reorganized into its current form in 2005 following CCCC’s restructuring. CRBC states that it is one of the first four large state-owned enterprises to enter the international engineering contracting market, with branch offices in nearly 60 countries across Asia, Africa, Europe, and the Americas, engaged in road, bridge, port, railway, and airport construction. The company describes its work as advancing China’s “Going Out” strategy and Belt and Road Initiative, and it operates a Kyrgyzstan office that has participated in local education partnerships, including the November 2024 Ban-Mo Institute at Kyrgyz State Technical University.

Zhejiang University of Water Resources and Electric Power

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Zhejiang University of Water Resources and Electric Power (浙江水利水電學院), founded in 1953, is a public higher education institution in Hangzhou, the capital of Zhejiang province. According to the university’s own account, it is the only university in Zhejiang jointly constructed by China’s Ministry of Water Resources and the Zhejiang provincial government, and it describes its mission as training “practically competitive industrial backbones” with what it calls “consciousness for water conservancy.” The university offers 34 majors across engineering, management, economics, and literature, with a focus on water conservancy, hydropower, and civil engineering. It states that it participates in Belt and Road Initiative-related international cooperation and has partnered with universities in the United Kingdom, France, Belarus, and Germany, as well as with Chinese institutions including Wuhan University and Hohai University. The university led the construction of the Kyrgyzstan Luban Workshop, a vocational training center at Kyrgyz State Technical University in Bishkek unveiled in October 2024.

HOY TV

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HOY TV (開電視), operated by i-CABLE HOY Limited under parent company i-Cable Communications Limited, is a free-to-air Cantonese-language television channel in Hong Kong. The channel began broadcasting on May 14, 2017, under the name Fantastic TV Chinese Channel, later renamed Hong Kong Open TV and then HOY TV in 2022. New World Development chairman Henry Cheng Kar-shun took control of i-Cable Communications in 2021, paying HK$316.4 million to acquire a majority stake in the company’s controlling shareholder, Forever Top (Asia) Limited. In 2023, i-Cable surrendered its pay-television license and shifted its business to free-to-air broadcasting, around the same period Hong Kong’s Communications Authority introduced new licensing rules requiring HOY TV and other free-to-air broadcasters to air at least 30 minutes of national education and national security law content weekly. HOY TV has also participated in the Hong Kong Police Force’s national security messaging efforts as one of three broadcasters that rebroadcast the force’s “Offbeat 360” video series.

Young Lion Holdings Limited

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Young Lion Holdings Limited is a British Virgin Islands-incorporated holding company that has served as Television Broadcasts Limited’s (TVB) largest shareholder since January 2011, when it acquired a 26 percent stake in TVB from Shaw Brothers (Hong Kong) Limited for an estimated HK$5.2 billion, according to the South China Morning Post. As of TVB’s 2024 Annual Report, the stake, held through subsidiary Shaw Brothers Limited, stood at 25 percent and was subject to overlapping, jointly held interests between Kenneth Hsu Kin, who controlled the stake through Ever Port Limited, and PRC media tycoon Li Ruigang (黎瑞剛), founder of China Media Capital (華人文化), or CMC, who held an indirect interest through a chain of entities including CMC M&E Acquisition Co. Ltd. As of May 2025, TVB’s Executive Chairman Thomas Hui (許濤) agreed to acquire Hsu’s shares in Young Lion Holdings, after which Hsu resigned as a TVB non-executive director, according to the South China Morning Post.

Phoenix Television

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Phoenix Television (鳳凰衛視), operated by Phoenix Media Investment (Holdings) Limited, is a Hong Kong-based Chinese-language broadcaster established on March 31, 1996, and listed on the Hong Kong Stock Exchange (SEHK: 2008). The company’s largest shareholder is Bauhinia Culture Holdings, a company wholly owned by China’s central government, which acquired a 21 percent stake from founder Liu Changle in April 2021. China Mobile Hong Kong, a subsidiary of state-owned China Mobile, separately holds approximately 19.7 percent of Phoenix’s shares. Taiwanese regulators concluded in 2022 that this ownership structure gave Beijing direct control over the network, and Phoenix subsequently ceased its Taiwan operations after failing to meet a remediation deadline set by Taiwanese authorities. Phoenix operates six satellite channels distributed across mainland China, Hong Kong, and overseas Chinese communities, and has co-produced Hong Kong national security-themed programming with the Hong Kong Police Force.

Hong Kong Police Force

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The Hong Kong Police Force (香港警務處), formed on May 1, 1844, under the territory’s first Police Ordinance, is Hong Kong’s primary law enforcement agency, operating under the government’s Security Bureau. Following the imposition of the Hong Kong National Security Law by China’s National People’s Congress Standing Committee in 2020, the force established a National Security Department on July 1, 2020, headed by a Deputy Commissioner of Police for National Security. The department investigates offenses under the national security law and conducts related intelligence work, and its head sits on the government’s Committee for Safeguarding National Security, which includes a National Security Adviser designated by China’s central government. The force’s Public Relations Branch has co-produced national security-themed television programming with broadcasters including Television Broadcasts Limited (TVB) and Phoenix Television, forming part of a broader effort to promote public confidence in the police and awareness of national security law following the 2019 protests.

Television Broadcasts Limited

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Television Broadcasts Limited (電視廣播有限公司), known as TVB, was first established on November 19, 1967, as Hong Kong’s first wireless commercial television station, and today produces terrestrial broadcasting, drama, and digital media content distributed across mainland China and more than 40 other countries. The company is listed on the Stock Exchange of Hong Kong, trading under stock code 00511. TVB’s largest shareholder, Young Lion Holdings Limited, holds a 25 percent stake in the company through its subsidiary Shaw Brothers Limited, a stake jointly held under an agreement between Kenneth Hsu Kin and Li Ruigang (黎瑞剛), founder of mainland Chinese investment firm China Media Capital, according to TVB’s 2024 Annual Report. In May 2025, TVB’s Executive Chairman Thomas Hui To agreed to acquire Hsu’s shares in Young Lion Holdings, and Hsu resigned as a non-executive director, according to the South China Morning Post. Li remains a non-executive director on TVB’s board. TVB’s mainland China operations, which co-produce dramas and distribute programming to mainland broadcasters and streaming platforms, accounted for 26 percent of the company’s total revenue in 2024, according to the annual report for that year.