Radio Taiwan International

Radio Taiwan International
中央廣播電台

Type	Radio network
Country	Republic of China
Availability	International
Owner	Radio Taiwan International
Launch date	1928
Former names	CBS,Voice of Free China, Radio Taipei International
Official website	http://www.rti.org.tw/

Radio Taiwan International
Central Broadcasting System (the white architecture) and The Grand Hotel
Traditional Chinese	中央廣播電台
Simplified Chinese	中央广播电台
Transcriptions Standard Mandarin Hanyu Pinyin Zhōngyāng Guǎngbō Diàntái Wade–Giles Chungyang Kuangpo Tient'ai Tongyong Pinyin Jhōngyāng Guǎngbō Diàntái IPA [ʈʂʊ́ŋi̯áŋ ku̯àŋpu̯ó ti̯ɛ̂ntʰǎi̯] Southern Min Hokkien POJ Tiong-yang Kóng-pò Tiān-tâi

Coordinates: 25°4′39.98″N 121°31′38.34″E / 25.0777722°N 121.5273167°E / 25.0777722; 121.5273167

Radio Taiwan International (RTI; Chinese: 中央廣播電台; pinyin: Zhōngyāng Guǎngbō Diàntái) is the English name and call sign of the international radio service, the Central Broadcasting System (CBS) of the Republic of China, commonly known as Taiwan. It is a government-owned station that broadcasts in 13 languages around the world, with a majority emphasis on Mandarin-language broadcasts over shortwave into China.

The Central Broadcasting System was founded in 1928 as the voice of the Kuomintang (KMT) government quartered in Nanking on mainland China. During the Second Sino-Japanese War the KMT was forced by Japanese advances to relocate the radio station, along with the capital city, first to Hankou in the central Hubei Province and then to Chungking in south-central China.

After the conclusion of the Second World War, which saw the surrender and withdrawal of Japanese forces, the KMT and the Communist Party of China resumed their civil war. The defeated KMT retreated to Taiwan in 1949 and the Central Broadcasting System moved with them.