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Lilium Distribution

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Lilium Distribution is an Italian independent television distribution company established in 2004. The firm distributes fiction, documentaries, factual entertainment, TV series, and animation across multiple platforms in both domestic and international markets — working particularly with Italian documentary producers. The company also provides dubbing services by partnering with external studios, overseeing adaptation and voice selection, and making content adjustments to meet specific broadcaster requirements. Among the company’s China-related documentaries for distribution is [Empire Builders: China](https://www.liliumdistribution.it/schedaeng.aspx?id=7960)_. 

Propaganda Office of the CCP Committee of Guangdong Province

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The Propaganda Office of the CCP Guangdong Provincial Committee (中共廣東省委宣傳部) is the chief office under provincial CCP leadership charged with media control, content regulation, and enforcement of “correct guidance of public opinion” (正確輿論導向). The office oversees all news organizations, publishing houses, cultural institutions, and online platforms within Guangdong province, ensuring alignment with Party directives on messaging and narrative control. It supervises provincial-level media entities, approves major journalism appointments, and coordinates propaganda work across municipal and county-level propaganda departments throughout the province.

African Union of Broadcasting

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The African Union of Broadcasting (非洲廣播聯盟), or AUB — known in French as the “Union Africaine de Radiodiffusion” — is a professional body of national radio and television organizations headquartered in Dakar, Senegal. Founded in 1962 as the Union of African National Television and Radio Organizations (URTNA) under the Organization of African Unity, the organization was renamed at its 2006 General Assembly in Abuja, Nigeria. AUB comprises 47 active members and works to develop the African broadcast industry by facilitating exchange of indigenous programming and negotiating preferential satellite tariffs. Chief Executive Officer Grégoire Ndjaka participated in China Media Group’s December 2025 Silk Road Television Community Summit in Yangjiang, delivering remarks via video. As a member of the World Broadcasting Unions, AUB serves as a platform where state-controlled African broadcasters engage with international media organizations, including Chinese state media entities advancing Belt and Road Initiative partnerships.

Handelsblatt

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Handelsblatt is a German daily business and financial newspaper founded in 1946 and published by the Düsseldorf-based Handelsblatt Media Group. The publication covers business, economics, and financial markets, with particular focus on German industry and international trade. Handelsblatt maintains correspondents in major financial centers, including Shanghai and Beijing. The newspaper has featured contributions from political leaders, including former Japanese Prime Minister Kishida Fumio, before his 2024 visit to Germany, and in February 2025 from the Chinese ambassador to Germany. 

Handelsblatt Media Group

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The Handelsblatt Media Group is a German media company based in Düsseldorf, founded in 1946 as part of DvH Medien. Specializing in business and financial journalism, the group publishes the business daily newspaper Handelsblatt and the weekly magazine Wirtschaftswoche. Beyond its publications, the company offers marketing, corporate content, and strategic communications services.

DvH Medien GmbH

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Founded in 2009, DvH Medien GmbH is a media holding group owned by media entrepreneur Dieter von Holtzbrinck, one of several heirs to the Holtzbrinck publishing empire who was also director of Dow Jones & Co. Inc. until its takeover in July 2007 by media mogul Rupert Murdoch. The company oversees three media groups: Handelsblatt Media Group, Tagesspiegel Publishing Group, and Die Zeit Publishing Group. The group’s publications include the business newspaper Handelsblatt, the daily Der Tagesspiegel, and the weekly DIE ZEIT. 

Vijesti

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Vijesti is a Montenegrin daily newspaper founded in 1997 and based in Podgorica. Identifying itself with the label “independent daily” (nezavisni dnevnik), the paper is owned by its four founders (59 percent), the Austrian media company Styria Medien AG (25 percent), and the US-based Media Development Investment Fund (16 percent). Vijesti maintains a centre to centre-left editorial stance with pro-European and anti-corruption positions. The newspaper has a print circulation of approximately 2,900 and receives over 6 million online visits monthly. In May 2018, Vijesti investigative reporter Olivera Lakić was shot outside her home in Podgorica while covering crime and corruption stories.

Media Development Investment Fund

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Media Development Investment Fund (MDIF), formerly Media Development Loan Fund, is a New York-registered not-for-profit corporation with 501(c)(3) public charity status founded in 1995 by Saša Vučinić and Stuart Auerbach. The organization specializes in impact investing, providing low-cost debt, equity, and quasi-equity financing to independent news and information businesses in countries with a history of media oppression. Over 30 years, MDIF has provided 330.5 million dollars in total financing and currently manages 125.8 million in assets, having invested in 158 media companies across 50 countries. The fund helps journalists build sustainable businesses around professional, quality journalism. In 2016, Russia declared MDIF an “undesirable” organization and banned it.

Styria Medien AG

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Styria Media Group, or Styria Medien AG, is one of Austria’s largest media companies, founded in 1869 and headquartered in Graz. The company emerged from the Catholic Press Association in the Diocese of Graz-Seckau and remains 98.33 percent owned by the Catholic Media Association Private Foundation (Katholischer Medien Verein Privatstiftung). Styria operates internationally with significant holdings in Slovenia and Croatia, employing approximately 2,500 people who generated combined market revenue of 420 million EUR in 2023. The company’s portfolio spans daily and weekly newspapers (including the flagship Kleine Zeitung), magazines, book publishers, radio stations, and digital marketplaces. Styria positions itself as a forward-looking, independent media group guided by its purpose to provide guidance, build trust, and foster community.