Entity Type: PRC Party-State Agency

The Cangzhou Municipal Committee of the Chinese Communist Party (中國共產黨滄州市委員會) is the highest organ of CCP authority in Cangzhou, a prefecture-level port city in Hebei province. As with all municipal-level party committees in China, it sits above the city government in the political hierarchy, and the committee’s Party Secretary outranks the mayor. The committee reports to the Hebei Provincial Committee of the CCP. It oversees all party work in Cangzhou, controls key personnel appointments across government, media and state enterprises, and is responsible for implementing directives from higher party authorities. Its propaganda office (中共滄州市委宣傳部) has described the Cangzhou International Communication Center (滄州市國際傳播中心), launched with Xinhuanet in 2022, as a way of “borrowing a boat to go out to sea” (借船出海) through central media’s overseas resources.

The Ganzhou Municipal People’s Government (贛州市人民政府) is the chief administrative body of Ganzhou, a prefecture-level city in southern Jiangxi province. Ganzhou’s jurisdiction includes Ruijin (瑞金), which served from 1931 as the capital of the CCP’s Chinese Soviet Republic and remains an iconic destination for “red tourism” built around Party revolutionary history. The government oversees economic planning, public services, urban development and the implementation of national and provincial policy. It operates under the leadership of the Ganzhou Municipal Committee of the Chinese Communist Party (中國共產黨贛州市委員會). In July 2025, it helped organize the Belt and Road Journalists Forum in Ganzhou, and it issued the forum’s English-language press release internationally.

The Propaganda Office of the Chinese Communist Party’s Jiangsu Provincial Committee (中共江蘇省委宣傳部) functions as the central ideological control apparatus for the province. It directs all state-run media, including the provincial Party committee’s official mouthpiece, Xinhua Daily (新華日報), published by the Xinhua Daily Media Group (新華報業傳媒集團). Located in Nanjing’s Gulou District (南京市鼓樓區), the office implements directives from both the central and provincial Party leadership to maintain “correct” political orientation in all local media. It controls information flows, manages public opinion, coordinates propaganda campaigns, and oversees cultural production across the province, ensuring all channels consistently amplify Party messaging and promote official narratives. The office is also active in external propaganda. In October 2026, it co-hosted the Belt and Road Journalists Forum in Nanjing with the All-China Journalists Association (中華全國新聞工作者協會). At the forum, its head, Xu Ying (徐纓), pledged that Jiangsu would work with foreign journalists to “tell good stories” of shared development.

The Nanjing Municipal People’s Government (南京市人民政府) is the chief administrative body of Nanjing, the capital of Jiangsu province and a sub-provincial city in the People’s Republic of China. It oversees the day-to-day governance of the city, including economic planning, public services, urban development, and the implementation of national and provincial policy at the local level. As with all levels of government in China, the Municipal People’s Government operates subordinate to and under the leadership of the Nanjing Municipal Committee of the Chinese Communist Party (中國共產黨南京市委員會), which sets the political direction and holds ultimate authority over governance in the city. The municipal government also takes part in external propaganda work. In October 2026, it co-hosted the Belt and Road Journalists Forum in Nanjing with the All-China Journalists Association (中華全國新聞工作者協會) and the propaganda office of the Jiangsu Provincial Party Committee.

Founded in January 1997, the China Internet Information Center (中國互聯網新聞中心), or CIIC, operates the china.com.cn website (中國網). According to its introduction page, the site aims to promote “Xi Jinping Thought on Socialism with Chinese Characteristics for a New Era” (習近平新時代中國特色社會主義思想), Xi’s signature political ideology, written into the Party constitution at the 19th National Congress in 2017. The same page claims CIIC publishes China-related information in 10 languages, with users in more than 200 countries. A 2021 statement said CIIC is run by the China International Communication Group (CICG) under the guidance of the State Council Information Office. CIIC also operates websites for official bodies, including “China Diplomacy in the New Era” (習近平外交思想和新時代中國外交) and the SCIO’s English website.

The Shandong Provincial People’s Government (山東省人民政府) is the chief administrative body of Shandong, a coastal province in eastern China with its capital in Jinan. It oversees the day-to-day governance of the province, including economic planning, public services, urban development and the implementation of national policy at the provincial level. As with all levels of government in China, it operates subordinate to and under the leadership of the Shandong Provincial Committee of the Chinese Communist Party (中國共產黨山東省委員會), which sets the political direction and holds ultimate authority over governance in the province. The provincial government appoints the leadership of Shandong Radio and Television (山東廣播電視台), the province’s main state broadcaster, which operates the Shandong International Communication Center (山東國際傳播中心) for external propaganda.

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.

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.