Nope. Go to a large Chinese police/tax building and you'll see a sign for the "Propaganda Department". Part of me respects them for being honest about it.

I think probably my (engineers in general?) distaste for "marketing" and "public relations" and "spin" is the propaganda (telling you what we want you to think) component that is often there. It sounds nicer if you say PR, and in the US we tend not to be quite so blatantly at odds with the facts, but PR and marketing are often trying to accomplish the same thing. At least the Chinese are honest about what they are doing.