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Australia Longyi Group Pty Ltd

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Longyi Group Australia (澳洲龍一集團), registered formally as Australia Longyi Group Pty Ltd with Australian company number ACN 168256666, is a Melbourne-based investment and media company focused on facilitating bilateral investment between Australia and China. The group owns Finance Vision Australia (財視澳洲), the Chinese-language media outlet, and maintains branch operations in Shanghai, China, through two subsidiaries: Shanghai Longyi Advertising Co. Ltd (上海龍一廣告有限公司) and Shanghai Longyi Immigration and Visa Services Co. Ltd (上海龍一出入境服務有限公司). The group’s website is longyigroup.cn, a Chinese domestic domain, and Finance Vision Australia’s website carries a Shanghai-based Chinese internet content provider registration number — both suggesting the group’s operational center of gravity lies in mainland China despite its Australian incorporation.

Grupo Lucrea

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Grupo Lucrea (啟創集團), registered formally in Spanish as Lucrea Diseño S.L., is a Madrid-based Chinese-owned advertising, marketing, and event management company founded in 2018 and headquartered at Calle Embajadores 199, 28045, Madrid. The company describes itself as the only Chinese-run advertising firm in Spain with fully integrated online and offline advertising channels, and claims membership in AUTOCONTROL, Spain’s advertising self-regulation association. Its services include graphic design, social media management, outdoor advertising placement, and business event planning and execution. By its own account, the company had by 2019 established partnerships with more than 30 media and independent media platforms across Europe, serving over 200 client companies in Europe, the United States, Canada, and China. Past projects listed on its website include the 40th anniversary celebration of the Association of Chinese in Spain, a Confucius cultural exhibition, and the Spain and Portugal premiere of the Chinese film No More Bets (萬里歸途). According to Ouhua Media Group’s own account, Grupo Lucrea took a controlling stake in Ouhua Media Group (歐華傳媒集團) in late 2025.

Indonesia Shang Bao

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Indonesia Shang Bao (印度尼西亞商報) is a Mandarin-language daily newspaper published in Jakarta, Indonesia, covering business, finance, politics, and international news. Founded on April 17, 2000, it was the first Chinese-language daily established in Indonesia following the collapse of President Suharto’s New Order government in May 1998. Under Suharto, who ruled from 1967 until his resignation that year, all Chinese-language education and private media were banned, making the paper’s founding a marker of the post-authoritarian reform era. The paper was previously part of the Bisnis Indonesia Group, which launched it through a subsidiary, PT Aksara Warta Mandarin, before subsequently divesting its majority stake; its current ownership structure is not publicly confirmed. The paper publishes at least 20 pages daily. According to the World Chinese Media Cooperation Alliance (世界華文媒體合作聯盟) member directory, it also publishes The GEO Time, an Indonesian-language weekly magazine, and has since 2013 reproduced content from Beijing’s Life Times (生命時報) on health and medical topics. In May 2026, a new media operations director of the paper participated in the 2026 Overseas Chinese-Language Media Jiangxi Tour (2026海外華文媒體江西行), a state-organized reporting tour in Jiangxi Province, China.

Kia Hua Tong Nguan

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Kia Hua Tong Nguan (京華中原聯合日報) is a Chinese-language daily newspaper published in Bangkok, Thailand, and one of the few surviving Chinese-language print titles in the country. The paper was founded on July 16, 1984, through the merger of two earlier Bangkok-based Chinese-language dailies, Kia Hua (京華日報) and Chung Yuan (中原日報), with Chung Yuan ceasing publication on July 15, 1984, and folding into Kia Hua. The paper’s predecessor, Kia Hua, was founded in 1957 and was at the time the only Chinese-language newspaper in Thailand licensed by the government. The paper is published under the Thai corporate name Sirinakorn, as confirmed by a 2015 Bangkok Post profile of a journalist who worked at “Chinese newspaper Sirinakorn (Jinghua Ribao),” the predecessor title (also confirmed with this source). It publishes 28 pages daily across sections covering news, international affairs, community news, business, stock markets, entertainment, health, and education, and has historically served the ethnic Chinese community in Thailand. In May 2026, an international edition editor of the paper participated in the 2026 Overseas Chinese-Language Media Jiangxi Tour (2026海外華文媒體江西行), a state-organized reporting tour in Jiangxi Province, China.

Overseas Chinese-Language Media Tour Visits Jiangxi Province

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On May 15, 2026, senior executives from more than 40 overseas Chinese-language media organizations — including from Malaysia, Thailand, Cambodia, the Philippines, and Taiwan — attended the 2026 Overseas Chinese-Language Media Jiangxi Tour (2026海外華文媒體江西行), a state-organized reporting tour in Jiangxi’s capital city of Nanchang. Participants visited the Tengwang Pavilion (滕王閣) scenic area, where they attended a performance of “Dreaming of the Tengwang Pavilion,” a large-scale outdoor immersive production that first opened in January 2021. Organizers said the activity aimed to leverage the “bridging role” of overseas Chinese-language media to help Jiangxi “enhance its international communication capacity” and bring Jiangxi’s culture and development achievements to “broader domestic and international audiences,” framing diaspora outlets as conduits for provincial and state narratives. Chinese Commercial News (菲律賓商報), which had representatives present on the tour, reported on the event.

Chinese Ambassador to the European Union Gives Interview to Brussels Times

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In March 2026, Chinese Ambassador to the European Union Cai Run (蔡潤) gave an interview to the Brussels Times, a Belgian English-language outlet. The interview focused on the 15th Five-Year Plan (2026–2030), China’s national development blueprint, and its implications for China-EU relations. Cai claimed that the Plan would “inject stability and certainty into the world” and that China’s trade and investment policies represent genuine openness, citing bilateral trade figures as evidence of a healthy relationship — without acknowledging that EU data shows a 359.9 billion euro in goods trade deficit in 2025. He presented the 2025 lifting of European Parliament exchange restrictions as a diplomatic milestone, also without noting that those restrictions originated from China’s own retaliatory sanctions on MEPs imposed in 2021 in response to EU measures over documented human rights abuses in Xinjiang. Cai also portrayed European businesses and policymakers as broadly welcoming deeper alignment with Beijing, sidestepping an active WTO dispute over EU tariffs on Chinese electric vehicles imposed following findings of unfair state subsidies.

Xinhua President Meets With Reuters Managing Director

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In October 2025, Fu Hua (傅華), president of China’s official Xinhua News Agency, met in Beijing with Alphonse Hardel, managing director at Reuters, the London-based international news agency. According to Xinhua’s report, Fu described Reuters as one of the earliest Western news agencies to establish ties with Xinhua, citing a news cooperation agreement first signed between the two in 1957, covering news exchange and photo services. Fu called for continued cooperation “on the basis of mutual respect and shared benefits.” Hardel said that both agencies share concerns about the responsible use of artificial intelligence in news and communications and expressed a desire to continue the partnership.

Jishi Media Signs Memorandum of Understanding with Cátedra China

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In April 2025, Jishi Media signed a memorandum of understanding with Cátedra China, a Madrid-based think tank with close ties to the Chinese government. The agreement, signed in Madrid on April 11, commits both parties to producing and distributing media content to “deepen understanding of China in the Spanish-speaking world,” to “develop and promote materials helping Spain understand the realities of 21st-century China,” and to strengthening ties among media professionals, journalists, writers, and filmmakers in both countries — objectives that align closely with Beijing’s stated goals for overseas cultural and media influence. Cátedra China, founded in 2012, describes itself as an analysis and discussion platform whose more than 130 members are experts and scholars with at least a decade of experience working on China-Spain relations.

Jishi Media Signs Cooperation Agreement with the University of Salamanca

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On April 23, 2026, during a visit by a University of Salamanca delegation to Jilin Province, China, Jishi Media (吉視傳媒股份有限公司), a state-owned broadcaster in Jilin Province, signed a strategic cooperation agreement with the University of Salamanca. The signing took place between You Zhiqiang (由志強), the chairman of Jishi, and the University of Salamanca’s computer science professor specializing in artificial intelligence, Juan Manuel Corchado. According to the University of Salamanca’s official press release, the two sides signed a memorandum of cooperation outlining a roadmap for joint media projects, particularly in digital innovation, content production, and specialized training. The delegation also toured Jilin University’s AI College, where researchers presented ongoing projects in robotics, algorithm development, and artificial intelligence models. During the visit, Corchado also toured the School of Communication at Northeast Normal University to discuss the academic exchange program. The visit concluded with a meeting with Cao Lubao (曹路宝), minister of the Propaganda Department of the CCP Jilin Provincial Committee, where both sides discussed cooperation in higher education and technological innovation.
This dispatch was reported to Lingua Sinica by Shiany Pérez-Cheng.