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Information Office of the People’s Government of Nanning City

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The Information Office of the People’s Government of Nanning City (南寧市人民政府新聞辦公室) is the municipal body responsible for organizing press conferences, official news releases, and publicity activities for the government of Nanning. As of 2026, Li Jiang (黎江) headed the office and also served as the Deputy Head of the Nanning Propaganda Office. In 2024, the Propaganda Office commended the Information Office for its propaganda, ideological, and cultural work in promoting “Xi Jinping Thought on Culture” (習近平文化思想), CCP’s ideological framework to guide propaganda and media. It also co-organized the 2026 China-ASEAN Urban Media Roundtable, an event dedicated to deepening collaboration between Chinese and ASEAN media and fostering media cooperation.

Roma 9 Sino-Italian Economic and Cultural Exchange Center

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The Roma 9 Sino-Italian Economic and Cultural Exchange Center (Roma 9 Centro di Scambi Economici e Culturali Sino-Italiani) is a Rome organization and event venue launched in December 2018 by Cina in Italia, a bilingual Italian-Chinese monthly and publishing house founded in 2001. It is housed in the magazine’s San Lorenzo offices on Piazza dei Campani and takes its name from the street number. Both are led by Hu Lanbo (胡蘭波), a Chinese-born publisher. At the launch, she described Roma 9 as a center for promoting understanding between the two cultures. PRC Embassy counselors were listed as speakers at the opening. The Cina in Italia website was published in 2019 by the company Cina in Italia Srls. It now operates under the VAT number of Roma 9, an entity registered separately with the Rome Chamber of Commerce. In 2023, Decode39 reported that Cina in Italia is 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, it also reported that Chinese Ambassador Jia Guide (賈桂德) relied on Roma 9 to host events he could not stage at the embassy. That September, the state-run Global Times (環球時報) reported that Hu, as Roma 9’s chairperson, managed conference affairs for a China-Europe Seminar on Human Rights in Rome. The seminar was co-hosted by the state-backed China Society for Human Rights Studies (中國人權研究會) and Sapienza University of Rome’s law faculty, and Jia attended. On September 1, 2024, Roma 9 signed a strategic cooperation agreement with the Western China International Communication Organization (西部國際傳播中心), a Chongqing body for state-led external propaganda. Roma 9 thereby became the first overseas liaison office of WCICO’s Bridging News (陸海財經) platform.

Nanning Media Convergence Center

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The Nanning Media Convergence Center (南寧市融媒體中心) is a municipal-level media hub under the management of the propaganda office of the Nanning Municipal Party Committee. Established in May 2024 alongside the city’s international communication center (南寧國際傳播中心), it is part of Xi Jinping’s push for “media convergence” (媒體融合), which calls for the integration of traditional and digital Party-state media as a means to maximize resources and maintain the Party’s narrative dominance across mediums. The center was formed through the integration of the Nanning Daily Press (南寧日報社) and the Nanning Radio and Television Station (南寧廣播電視台), and claims to have more than 26 million users across its newspapers, radio, television, social media, and web services. A 2025 recruitment notice posted on the Center’s Nanning News Net (南寧新聞網) indicated that it was looking for editors and anchors with Thai, Vietnamese, and English skills to publish content on overseas social media platforms such as Facebook and Instagram. The center’s domestic media initiatives have included a short video series titled [Yong You Li Xiang](https://jxpub.nntv.cn/lilun/page1.html)_ (邕有理響), which  introduces technological and societal development in Nanning.

Department of Finance of the Guangxi Zhuang Autonomous Region

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The Department of Finance of the Guangxi Zhuang Autonomous Region is the body responsible for formulating and implementing national and regional fiscal plans and policies. As Guangxi is seen by the central government as a gateway between China and Southeast Asian countries, the department has also supported national infrastructure development plans for a regional industrial cooperation zone as well as outward-facing media initiatives. In 2020, for example, the department allocated 43.79 million yuan (about 6.5 million US dollars) to support the establishment of an “ASEAN information harbor.” This included 9 million yuan to Guangxi Radio and Television (廣西廣播電視台), which set up a “full-media system for multilingual reporting, editing, broadcasting and distribution.”According to China’s corporate registry, the department wholly owns the Guangxi Publishing & Media Group (廣西出版傳媒集團), whose subsidiaries — Guangxi People’s Publishing House (廣西人民出版社) and Lijiang Publishing House (灕江出版社) — have formed partnerships with the Nanning Media Convergence Center (南寧市融媒體中心) to promote their publications overseas.

Foreign Affairs Office of the Nanning Municipal Government

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The Foreign Affairs Office of the Nanning Municipal People’s Government is the city government agency responsible for Nanning’s foreign affairs. The office’s website also functions as the site for the city’s Hong Kong and Macau Affairs Office (南寧市港澳事務辦公室) and the Nanning Party Foreign Affairs Commission (南寧市委外事工作委員會). It supported the 2026 China-ASEAN Urban Media Roundtable, an event dedicated to deepening collaboration between Chinese and ASEAN media and fostering media exchange.

Center for Advanced Studies and Research

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The Center for Advanced Studies and Research, or CASR, is a Malaysian organization launched in June 2025 that characterizes itself as a non-partisan think tank “committed to advancing rigorous research, policy innovation, and strategic advisory to address Malaysia’s most pressing challenges.” Its website publishes English and Chinese-language commentary on Malaysian electoral politics, including the 2026 Johor state election, and on regional affairs. On July 30, 2026, CASR and the Western China International Communication Organization (西部國際傳播中心), or WCICO, a Chongqing body for state-led external propaganda, launched a Kuala Lumpur bureau of WCICO’s Bridging News (陸海財經) brand. At the same event they released a joint report on Chongqing-Malaysia cooperation in ASEAN markets. A September 15, 2026, CASR commentary promoting western China’s development as a model for the Global South linked repeatedly to iChongqing, WCICO’s English-language platform. CASR’s website was registered in January 2025 to a private limited company in Selangor state, the Center for Advanced Studies and Research Sdn. Bhd.

Bridging News

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Bridging News (陸海財經) is an English-language financial news platform run by the Western China International Communication Organization (西部國際傳播中心), or WCICO. WCICO is the Chongqing body for state-led external propaganda and is operated by the Chongqing Daily News Group (重慶日報報業集團). Alongside iChongqing, Bridging News is one of WCICO’s core brands for what China’s leadership calls “external propaganda” (外宣). It runs a website, a mobile app, and accounts on Facebook and YouTube. By August 2023, Chongqing officials described the platform as an overseas English-language app providing financial news on the Belt and Road Initiative (一帶一路) and the New International Land-Sea Trade Corridor (西部陸海新通道). The corridor is a Chongqing-centered freight route linking western China to Southeast Asian ports under the Belt and Road framework. WCICO’s iChongqing platform has described it as an outlet serving Chinese industries expanding overseas. In November 2024, WCICO claimed 245,000 overseas downloads for the app and announced plans to make it a “mobile portal” for western China’s opening. WCICO has since opened Bridging News liaison offices with local partners in Rome, Singapore, and three other cities. In Lima, the partner is Clasic Media China International SAC. In Brazil, it is the Brazilian Press Association (Associação Brasileira de Imprensa). In Kuala Lumpur, it is the Malaysian think tank CASR.

Centro de la Amistad Peruano China

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The Centro de la Amistad Peruano China (Peruvian-Chinese Friendship Center) is a cultural venue in Lima’s Jesús María district. The Chinese government funded the Centro with a 20-million-yuan donation, and the building was formally handed over to the Peruvian Agency for International Cooperation, a body attached to Peru’s foreign ministry, between 2011 and 2015, during the ambassadorship of Huang Minhui (黃敏慧). The Centro is managed by the Patronato del Centro de la Amistad Peruano China, a private non-profit civil association, which says the building was a gift marking 150 years of Chinese immigration to Peru, built under a 2007 economic and technical cooperation agreement between the two governments. The Patronato consists of three members, two with strong to moderate ties to the Chinese Party-state. The first is the Chinese Benevolent Society (秘魯中華通惠總局), Peru’s oldest and largest Chinese community organization. PRC diplomats routinely attend the installation of its leadership, and in August 2025 it co-hosted a commemoration with the Peru Council for the Promotion of the Peaceful Reunification of China (秘魯中國和平統一促進會), a body tied to the CCP’s United Front system. The second is the Peruvian Chinese Cultural Center, which co-created a public park in Lima’s Miraflores district with the PRC Embassy. The third is the Peruvian Chinese Association, a heritage organization. The Patronato’s president, Erasmo Jesús Rolando Wong Lu Vega (黃業生), is a businessman and former civil engineer who founded the Peruvian Chinese Association in 1999 and whose business group holds a majority stake in the broadcaster Willax Televisión. The Patronato’s registered fiscal address in La Molina matches the address listed for Wong in the Panama Papers. In November 2024, the Centro hosted and supported a Chongqing propaganda office promotion event, at which the Western China International Communication Organization (西部國際傳播中心) opened a Lima liaison office for its Bridging News (陸海財經) brand. The Peruvian-Chinese Friendship Center had more than 23,000 followers on Facebook as of October 2026.

Radio and Television of Timor Leste

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Rádio e Televisão de Timor-Leste (RTTL) is Timor-Leste’s state-owned public broadcaster, running national radio and television in Tetum, Portuguese, and Indonesian. The broadcaster was established in 1999 as Radio UNAMET, an information service run by the United Nations Mission in East Timor, and transformed into a public broadcasting service in 2002 after the country became independent, according to its website. In 2008, the country passed Decree-Law No. 42/2008, approving RTTL as a public enterprise earning its own revenues. The Decree-Law was amended in 2024 to enable RTTL to have greater flexibility to manage content distribution, allowing it to broadcast its channels locally and internationally to receive additional income. In 2026, Madalena Pereira Carlos, a director of RTTL, attended the China-ASEAN Urban Media Roundtable, an event dedicated to deepening media collaboration between China and Southeast Asian nations.