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Excellence Global Media Corporation

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Excellence Global Media Corporation (卓越全球傳媒股份有限公司) is a Taipei-based media company incorporated on May 27, 2019, under Taiwan’s company registry (統編: 82886718), with registered capital of NT$5 million. It is the corporate parent of Excellence Magazine (卓越雜誌), a Taiwan business and finance monthly founded in 1984. As of March 2026, the company is chaired by Zheng Yizhang (鄭玉章), who also controls a network of at least thirteen affiliated companies spanning printing, media, food and beverage, and international trade. Excellence Magazine president Xu Banghao (徐邦浩) serves as a director with equal shareholding to the chairman. The company has documented connections with CCP and Chinese government entities, including co-publishing roles in CCP-organized cross-strait cultural events and a 2024 delegation visit to Xiamen touring state-directed Taiwan youth incubator facilities, during which delegation members applied for PRC mainland resident permits. It is headquartered at 7F-1, 75 Bade Road Section 3, Songshan District, Taipei.

Xiamen Committee of the Chinese Communist Party

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The Xiamen Municipal Committee of the Chinese Communist Party (中國共產黨廈門市委員會) is the highest organ of CCP authority in Xiamen, Fujian Province. As with all municipal-level party committees in China, it sits above the city government in the political hierarchy — the committee’s Party Secretary outranks the mayor. The committee oversees all party work in Xiamen, controls key personnel appointments across government, media, and state enterprises, and is responsible for implementing directives from the CCP Fujian Provincial Committee and the CCP Central Committee. Xiamen holds particular strategic significance within the CCP’s cross-strait policy apparatus as the mainland city closest to Taiwan, and its municipal committee has historically been a focal point for cross-strait economic, cultural, and political engagement. Xiamen Daily serves as the committee’s official organ.

Haicang District Propaganda Office of the Chinese Communist Party

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The Haicang District Propaganda Office of the Chinese Communist Party (中共海滄區委宣傳部) is the district-level arm of the CCP’s Central Propaganda Department (中央宣傳部) in Haicang District, Xiamen. The department exercises direct leadership over the media control system and is one of the main entities that enforces media censorship and control in the People’s Republic of China, engaging in propaganda work for both domestic and foreign audiences designed to increase support for the CCP. At the district level, the office supervises ideological work, controls local media and cultural output, and implements directives from the Xiamen Municipal Propaganda Office and the CCP Central Propaganda Department above it.

Want Want China Times Media Group

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Want Want China Times Media Group (旺旺中時媒體集團) is a Taiwan-based media conglomerate established in 2009 following the acquisition of the China Times Group (中國時報集團) by Want Want Holdings (旺旺集團), a food and beverage company whose founder and chairman, Tsai Eng-meng (蔡衍明), derives the majority of his business revenue from mainland China. The acquisition, completed in November 2008 for approximately NT$20.4 billion, gave Want Want control of the China Times newspaper and television channels CTV and CTiTV. Freedom House has identified the group as a prominent example of Beijing wielding influence in Taiwan by co-opting local business elites with commercial interests in China, noting that its outlets carry pro-Beijing content and have reduced coverage of human rights issues in China under Tsai’s ownership. A peer-reviewed study in the American Political Science Review found that under Tsai’s ownership the group’s outlets are affiliated with the PRC-led Belt and Road News Alliance and that media scholars and former employees report the organization receives editorial directives from the PRC’s Taiwan Affairs Office. In 2014, Tsai led a delegation to meet Xinhua News Agency (新華社) president Li Congjun (李從軍), following which the two organizations signed a Strategic Cooperation Memorandum (戰略合作備忘錄). In 2019 the Financial Times reported that journalists at China Times and CTiTV said Taiwan Affairs Office officials “call every day” to shape coverage; Want Want sued the Financial Times, its reporter, and Taiwan’s Central News Agency for defamation, though prosecutors ultimately dropped the cases. CTiTV’s broadcast license was not renewed by Taiwan’s National Communications Commission on November 18, 2020, citing repeated violations of regulations and failure of internal control mechanisms; the channel went off air on December 11, 2020. 

Beijing Daily

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Established on October 1, 1952, Beijing Daily (北京日報) is the official mouthpiece of the Beijing Municipal Committee of the Chinese Communist Party (中國共產黨北京市委員會). Since its founding, the paper has functioned as a primary organ for provincial-level ideological dissemination, with its iconic masthead personally inscribed by Mao Zedong (毛澤東). Operating under the Beijing Daily Group (北京日報報業集團), the paper is tasked with propagating central directives and municipal policies.

Beijing Municipal Committee of the CCP

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The Beijing Municipal Committee of the Chinese Communist Party (中國共產黨北京市委員會) is the highest organ of CCP authority in Beijing. As with all municipal-level party committees in China, it sits above the city government in the political hierarchy — the committee’s Party Secretary outranks the mayor. The committee oversees all party work in Beijing, controls key personnel appointments across government, media, and state enterprises, and is responsible for implementing directives from the CCP Central Committee. Beijing Daily Group (北京日報報業集團) serves as the committee’s official media organ. The committee’s headquarters are located at 1 Zhengyi Road, Dongcheng District, Beijing.

Haicang District Federation of Literary and Art Circles

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The Haicang District Federation of Literary and Art Circles (海滄區文學藝術界聯合會) is the district-level branch of the China Federation of Literary and Art Circles (中國文學藝術界聯合會), or CFLAC, in Haicang District, Xiamen. CFLAC is a people’s organization under the leadership of the Chinese Communist Party (CCP). Founded in July 1949, three months before the founding of the People’s Republic of China, its mission is to unite and serve writers and artists. District-level federations such as the Haicang body operate as the lowest rung of a top-down national structure running from the CCP Central Propaganda Department (中央宣傳部) through provincial, municipal, and district levels, ensuring alignment with CCP cultural policy. The Haicang federation reports to the Xiamen Municipal Federation of Literary and Art Circles (廈門市文學藝術界聯合會) and operates under the authority of the Haicang District CCP Committee (中共海滄區委員會).

Rimbunan Hijau Group

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The Rimbunan Hijau Group is a Malaysian multinational logging and diversified conglomerate founded in 1975 by Tan Sri Datuk Tiong Hiew King (張曉卿). Headquartered in Sibu, Sarawak, Malaysia, the group has an estimated annual turnover exceeding US$1 billion and operates across multiple countries including Malaysia, Indonesia, Papua New Guinea, Equatorial Guinea, Gabon, Russia, Australia, Canada, China, Hong Kong, Korea, Singapore, and the United States. The company is involved in forestry, oil palm plantations, media, information technology, hospitality, aquaculture, general trading, biotechnology, plastic manufacturing, mining, property development, and human capital development. In Papua New Guinea, Rimbunan Hijau is the largest single logging operator and owns one of the country’s major newspapers, The National, which it established in 1993. The company has faced criticism from environmental groups, with a World Bank report estimating that up to 70 percent of logging in Papua New Guinea is illegal, though the company maintains it operates within legal frameworks.

Forum on China-Africa Cooperation (FOCAC)

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Established in 2000, the Forum on China-Africa Cooperation (中非合作论坛) functions as China’s primary multilateral mechanism for engaging with 53 African nations, excluding only Eswatini which maintains ties with Taiwan. While Beijing presents FOCAC as a partnership of equals guided by its “Five Nos” policy—including non-interference and no political conditions on aid—critics note these principles often serve China’s strategic interests in securing resources and diplomatic support. Since 2018, FOCAC has been explicitly folded into China’s Belt and Road Initiative, with Beijing making headline-grabbing financial pledges ($60 billion in both 2015 and 2018) that combine loans, investments, and limited grants, though actual disbursement figures remain difficult to verify independently. The FOCAC Office is located within the Department of African Affairs of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs (MFA).