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China, Taiwan
The Third Cross-Strait Media Summit (第三屆兩岸媒體人北京峰會) was held in Beijing in December 2017, themed around the thirtieth anniversary of cross-strait journalism exchange. Taiwan Affairs Office (國台辦) and Taiwan Work Office of the CCP Central Committee (中共中央台灣工作辦公室) director Zhang Zhijun (張志軍) attended and addressed the gathering. Want Want Holdings (旺旺集團) and Want Want China Times Media Group (旺旺中時媒體集團) chairman Tsai Eng-meng (蔡衍明) and Want Want China Times Media Group vice chairman Hu Chih-chiang (胡志強) both attended. The summit was co-organized by Beijing Daily Group (北京日報報業集團) and Want Want China Times Media Group, as reported by The Ne…
Taiwan
The 2022 Cross-Strait Chinese Character Festival (海峽兩岸漢字節) culminating event was held in Taipei on December 14, 2022. The festival was organized on the mainland side by the Haicang District Propaganda Office of the Chinese Communist Party (中共海滄區委宣傳部), the Haicang District Federation of Literary and Art Circles (海滄區文學藝術界聯合會), and the state-run Xiamen Daily (廈門日報社), published by the CCP Committee in Xiamen, with Taiwan's Want Want China Times Media Group (旺旺中時傳媒集團) serving as the Taiwan co-organizer. The annual character — "thought/longing" (思) — was announced at the Taipei ceremony, selected from more than 14.7 million votes. Excellence M…
China, Taiwan
Want Want China Times Media Group (旺旺中時媒體集團) and Beijing Daily Group (北京日報報業集團) signed a strategic cooperation agreement (戰略合作協議) in late 2014. The agreement established a framework for news exchange and media industry cooperation between the two groups, and provided the organizational basis for the annual Cross-Strait Media Summit (兩岸媒體人北京峰會), a joint media platform the two groups subsequently developed together. The existence of the agreement was reported by The News Lens in 2019, citing China Times coverage of subsequent summit activity.…
China, Taiwan
Want Want Holdings (旺旺集團) and Want Want China Times Media Group (旺旺中時媒體集團) chairman Tsai Eng-meng (蔡衍明) led a delegation to Beijing in July 2018, visiting several Chinese state media organizations and meeting with Chinese People's Political Consultative Conference (CPPCC) chairman Wang Yang (汪洋), a Politburo Standing Committee member and one of the six most senior officials in the CCP hierarchy. The visit was reported by CitiOrange in an April 2019 investigation citing a Reporters Without Borders report on Chinese media expansion. Wang Yang subsequently referenced his meeting with Tsai at…
China, Taiwan
A delegation of ten Taiwan entrepreneurs led by Xu Banghao (徐邦浩), president of Taiwan's Excellence Global Media Corporation (卓越全球傳媒股份有限公司), visited Xiamen on August 19–20, 2024, touring cross-strait entrepreneur incubator facilities including Qida Taixiang (啟達台享) and the Haixi MCN Cross-Strait Youth Base (海西MCN兩岸青年三創基地). The base was established in November 2022 under the direction of the Huli District Taiwan-Hong Kong-Macau Affairs Office (湖里區台港澳辦) as an incubator for Taiwan youth in e-commerce and livestreaming,
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West Pacific Press (西太平洋通訊社), or WPP, is a Taipei-registered news agency incorporated on May 4, 2023, under Taiwan's company registry (統編: 94104181), describing itself as "the first and only" Asia-Pacific media platform focused on West Pacific nations. WPP's own website identifies it as a subsidiary of Excellence Media Group (卓越媒體集團). The company was founded by Wei Botao (韋伯韜), a former Republic of China government official who served as Director-General of the Executive Yuan's budget office from June…
Taiwan
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
Taiwan
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 O…
China
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 positi…
Taiwan
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. …
China
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…
China
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…
Taiwan
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.
China
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. …
China
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.…
China
The Haicang District Federation of Literary and Art Circles (海滄區文學藝術界聯合會) is the district-level branch of the China Federation of Literary and Art Circles (中國文學藝術界聯合會), or CFLAC, in Haicang District, Xiamen. CFLAC is a people's organization under the leadership of the Chinese Communist Party (CCP). Founded in July 1949, three months before the founding of the People's Republic of China, its mission is to unite and serve writers and artists. District-level federations such as the Haicang body operate as the lowest rung of a top-down national structure running from the CCP Central Propaganda Department (中央宣傳部) through provincial, municipal, and district…
Argentina
The 2018 China-Latin America Media Forum took place in Buenos Aires, Argentina on November 19, 2018, focusing on "Deepening Media Cooperation to Help Build a China-Latin America Community with a Shared Future," according to Xinhua News Agency. Representatives discussed media's role in bilateral cooperation and new media platforms. Xinhua reported that a Brazilian representative from a financial information group claimed that media plays an "incomparable role" in cooperation, allowing audiences to receive "first-hand information" rather than filtered news from Europe and the …
Australia
The Third China-Australia Media Forum (第三屆中澳媒體論壇) was held in Sydney on August 25, 2014, jointly organized by China's State Council Information Office (中國國務院新聞辦公室) and Australian News Channel Pty Ltd (澳大利亞新聞頻道股份有限公司). Over 50 government and media representatives from both countries discussed topics including economic cooperation, reporting, and media exchange mechanisms under the theme "Media's Role in Building Stable China-Australia Relations." Cai Mingzhao (蔡…
China
At the three-yearly Forum on China-Africa Cooperation Summit in Beijing on September 5, 2024, China and the African Union outlined AI cooperation in the Beijing Action Plan (2025-2027). African countries welcomed China's Global AI Governance Initiative (全球人工智能治理倡議) and supported developing countries' rights in global AI governance. Both sides are committed to bridging the AI and digital divide while jointly preventing risks, opposing technological monopolies, and building international governance frameworks with the UN as the main channel. The agreement established a …
Brazil
During a diplomatic meeting in Brazil on July 5, 2025, China's National Development and Reform Commission (国家发展改革委) signed a series of agreements with Brazilian government agencies, including an artificial intelligence cooperation pact witnessed by both nations' leaders. The memorandum of understanding establishes what the Chinese government describes as a "China-Brazil Artificial Intelligence Application Cooperation Center" (中国－巴西人工智能应用合作中心), with stated goals of "strengthening AI development foundations, providing open-source services, enhancing industrial innovation partnerships, and promoting talent development." Vice Chairman Liu Sushe (刘苏社) represented China's DRC in signing the bil…
