Entity Type: PRC Party-State Agency

The Embassy of the People’s Republic of China in France is China’s chief diplomatic mission to France. The mission was established on January 27, 1964, following the normalization of diplomatic relations between the People’s Republic of China and France. The embassy has generated considerable controversy in recent years over its commentary on France’s domestic affairs and the behaviour of its staff. In April 2020, during the COVID-19 pandemic, the embassy published an unsigned commentary on its website alleging that nursing home staff had “abandoned their posts overnight” and left elderly residents “to die of hunger and disease.” The French Foreign Ministry summoned the Chinese ambassador to protest the remarks, which French officials said bore no relation to reality. The embassy has also engaged in direct criticism of French media outlets, scholars, and legislators who have raised concerns about China’s policies. In March 2021, former Chinese Ambassador to France Lu Shaye (盧沙野) published an opinion piece attacking French researcher Antoine Bondaz, who had criticized France’s relationship with China, calling him a “small-time hoodlum” and an “ideological troll.” The unprecedented personal attack on an academic drew swift condemnation from French officials and the scholarly community. French Foreign Minister Jean-Yves Le Drian described the ambassador’s language as “unacceptable” and summoned him for an explanation.

The Chinese Academy of Sciences (中國科學院) is China’s national academy for natural sciences and the government’s highest scientific consultancy body. Founded with historical origins in the Republican-era Academia Sinica, CAS operates as “the world’s largest research organization” with 106 research institutes, two universities, and over 150,000 employees and students. The academy describes itself as “the linchpin of China’s drive to explore and harness high technology and the natural sciences for the benefit of China and the world,” though it functions primarily as a state-directed scientific apparatus advancing government priorities. CAS played crucial roles in China’s nuclear weapons program and computing development, while today co-organizing major government initiatives like the World Artificial Intelligence Conference alongside multiple Chinese ministries.

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.

The China–Africa Development Fund (中非發展基金), or CAD Fund, was announced by Chinese Communist Party General Secretary Hu Jintao (胡錦濤) on November 4, 2006, as part of eight measures for Sino-African relations at the Beijing Forum on China-Africa Cooperation summit, and began operations on June 26, 2007. The fund is managed by China Development Bank (國家開發銀行),  a bank under the State Council, the PRC’s government. The CAD Fund makes equity investments in sectors including agriculture, infrastructure, manufacturing, industrial parks, and resource development throughout Africa, supporting Chinese corporate investment on the continent while asserting it will “strengthen Africa’s capacity to develop on its own and enhance Africa’s competitiveness.” Among its known investments is a 20 percent stake in South Africa’s Independent Media. 

The Propaganda Office of the Party Committee of the Guangxi Zhuang Autonomous Region is the functional department of the Party Committee of the Guangxi Zhuang Autonomous Region in charge of ideological work. The department’s main responsibilities include formulating and implementing tasks, policies and measures for propaganda work in the region in accordance with the deployment of the central government and the regional party committee, coordinating and guiding the work of all units of the regional propaganda and cultural system and the propaganda departments of the party committees at all levels in the region.

The Propaganda Office of the Baoshan Committee of the CCP is the office under the Chinese Communist Party leadership in the city, which is located about 60 kilometers from China’s border with Myanmar. The office is charged with ensuring media outlets “strictly observe propaganda requirements” and “firmly observe correct guidance of public opinion,” particularly on sensitive issues, while transmitting content priorities from higher party levels. It controls the party’s mouthpiece newspaper, the Baoshan Daily (保山日报).

The People’s Government of Chongqing Municipality (重慶市人民政府) is the administrative body of China’s fourth and largest direct-controlled municipality in China. The mayor runs the government but is subordinate to the municipal party secretary, the top leader. It comprises a mayor, vice mayors, a General Office, and numerous bureaus handling public security, judicial affairs, and civil, economic, social, and cultural matters. The government was established in December 1949, restructured as the Chongqing Revolutionary Committee (重慶革命委員會) during the Cultural Revolution in June 1968, and re-established to its current form in March 1980. Chongqing has often been a focus of policy experimentation, including the formation in 2018 of China’s first international communication center, which operates the iChongqing platform for external propaganda.