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the SCIO is the administrative office for the EPLG

the CCP/ID brings them to China (usually on all-expenses-paid

and other institutions that have well-trained professionals and long-standing

China Institutes of Contemporary International

and its elite members in particular. The mission

inherit and propagate China’s outstanding culture

advance the cause of opposing (Taiwanese) independence and

the CCP International Liaison Department

the Foreign Ministry itself does not play a

these bureaucracies either oversee or directly conduct

this conference has become part of the annual National

the External Propaganda Work Conference was convened annually.

is also convened at irregular intervals (2000

the keynote speech at the National Overseas Chinese

and the National Propaganda Work Conference (2013 and 2018).

which has a dedicated staff of approximately fifty (many of whom are

top leaders can also communicate their ideas or orders in conversations or

has broad authority and may issue a brief directive on a matter he

of particular relevance to China’s international

the ultimate decision-making authority lies with the