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Want Want Holdings

Written by Editors on March 21, 2026.

Want Want Holdings (旺旺集團), formally Want Want Food Co., Ltd. (旺旺食品股份有限公司), is a Taiwan-founded food and beverage conglomerate whose operations are now concentrated almost entirely in mainland China, where it operates over 100 manufacturing plants and employs more than 60,000 people. Founded in 1962 in Yilan County, Taiwan as I Lan Foods Industrial Co., Ltd. (宜蘭食品工業股份有限公司), the group was taken over in 1976 by Tsai Eng-meng (蔡衍明), who built it into China’s largest rice cracker producer. Want Want China Holdings Ltd. (中國旺旺控股有限公司) is listed on the Hong Kong Stock Exchange. Tsai, who has publicly stated that “unification will happen sooner or later” and lives in Shanghai, diversified the group into media, insurance, hotels, and healthcare. In 2008 he acquired the China Times Group to form the Want Want China Times Media Group (旺旺中時媒體集團). In June 2025 Taiwan’s Mainland Affairs Council announced an investigation into Want Want for allegedly collaborating with the CCP to host a cross-strait summit at which the group’s general manager described Taiwan as originating in “Chinese Taiwan” and pledged the group’s loyalty to “the motherland.” The group is headquartered at 5F, 72 Xining North Road, Datong District, Taipei.

Excellence Magazine

Written by Editors on March 21, 2026.

Excellence Magazine (卓越雜誌) is a Taiwan-based monthly business and finance publication founded in September 1984. The magazine claims a monthly circulation of 50,000 copies and targets middle-class professionals aged 28–50, with a focus on financial, technology, and corporate management readers. Its editorial scope covers business management, economics, politics, health, and environmental topics. The magazine cites multiple Golden Tripod Awards (金鼎獎) in its own promotional materials, referencing the “Government Information Office’s Golden Tripod Awards” — suggesting that if such honors were received, they date to before 2012, when the Government Information Office (新聞局) was abolished and administration of the award passed to the Ministry of Culture (文化部). The magazine does not appear in published winner lists for any year where records are available. The current corporate parent, Excellence Global Media Corporation (卓越全球傳媒股份有限公司), was incorporated in 2019; no publicly documented connection between the current entity and the magazine’s original ownership structure is established in available public records. The magazine’s content, as visible on its website, consists primarily of advertorial features on corporate clients and local government initiatives, alongside aggregated commentary on financial and geopolitical topics attributed to its editorial department, with limited evidence of serious reporting. The magazine is currently led by president Xu Banghao (徐邦浩) and has since 2019 maintained a dedicated Korea news section (臺韓快訊) and pursued media partnerships in Seoul, including a memorandum of understanding with South Korea’s Applemedia Group, whose representative director Kim Hong-gi (金洪基) explicitly framed Excellence Magazine as a news integration hub for content from mainland China, Hong Kong, and the broader Chinese-speaking world directed at Korean audiences.

Xiamen Daily

Written by Editors on March 21, 2026.

Xiamen Daily (廈門日報) is the official organ of the Xiamen Municipal Committee of the Chinese Communist Party (CCP)(中共廈門市委機關報). Founded on October 22, 1949, with its masthead calligraphy provided by Shu Tong (舒同), then a standing member and propaganda chief of the CCP East China Bureau, the paper is the sole broadsheet daily of the Xiamen Special Economic Zone. As a municipal party organ, it primarily relays local CCP committee announcements and policy directives, mirroring the People’s Daily on central political priorities. The paper suspended publication in 1970 and resumed in 1979, and has historically played a central role in cross-strait messaging given Xiamen’s position as the mainland city geographically closest to Taiwan.

Excellence Global Media Corporation

Written by Editors on March 21, 2026.

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

Written by Editors on March 21, 2026.

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

Written by Editors on March 21, 2026.

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

Written by Editors on March 21, 2026.

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

Written by Editors on March 21, 2026.

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

Written by Editors on March 21, 2026.

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.