Let it not be said that 2019 was a year of failures. This evening I managed to establish direct contact via e-mail with a certain Ms. Du, who is a Chinese translator located in Mainland China. She has agreed to translate one short news article for me on a weekly basis indefinitely. Of course no one is interested in reading the typical fluff broadly available, but I hope to learn from and maintain the relationship so that in the future when more substantial content has been located, she will be available to aid in translating it.
The more important thing here is to develop the relationship so that you actually have a real contact on the ground there. Not as much for "aid in translating" whatever text but literally for aid finding useful people there.