Xinhua News Agency
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| Type | Broadcast radio, television and online |
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| Country | China |
| Founded | 1931 |
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Broadcast area
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Mainland China, Satellite, Internet |
| Area | Worldwide |
| Owner | People's Republic of China (state-owned institution) |
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Former names
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Red China News Agency (1931–1937) |
| Affiliation | State Council of the People's Republic of China |
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Reference News Xinhuanet.com CNC World |
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Official website
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Xinhua News Agency (English) |
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| Simplified Chinese | 新华通讯社 | ||||||||
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| Traditional Chinese | 新華通訊社 | ||||||||
| Literal meaning | New China News Agency | ||||||||
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| Simplified Chinese | 新华社 | ||||||||
| Traditional Chinese | 新華社 | ||||||||
| Literal meaning | New China Agency | ||||||||
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| Standard Mandarin | |
| Hanyu Pinyin | Xīnhuá Tōngxùnshè |
| IPA | ɕínxwǎ |
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| Standard Mandarin | |
| Hanyu Pinyin | Xīnhuá Shè |
The Xinhua News Agency (English pronunciation: /ˌʃɪnˈhwɑː/) is the official press agency of the People's Republic of China. Xinhua is the biggest and most influential media organization in China. Xinhua is a ministry-level institution subordinate to the Chinese central government. Its president is a member of the Central Committee of China's Communist Party.
Xinhua operates more than 170 foreign bureaus worldwide, and maintains 31 bureaus in China—one for each province, plus a military bureau. Xinhua is the sole channel for the distribution of important news related to the Communist Party and Chinese central government.
Xinhua is regarded as the most influential media outlet in China as almost every newspaper in China relies on Xinhua feeds for content. People's Daily, for example, uses Xinhua material for approximately 25 percent of its stories. Xinhua is a publisher as well as a news agency—it owns more than 20 newspapers and a dozen magazines, and it prints in eight languages: Chinese, English, Spanish, French, Russian, Portuguese, Arabic, and Japanese.
The Xinhua press agency was started in November 1931 as the Red China News Agency and changed to its current name in 1937. During the Pacific War the agency developed overseas broadcasting capabilities and established its first overseas branches. It began broadcasting to foreign countries in English from 1944. When the communists took power in China, the agency represented the Chinese Communist Party in countries and territories with which it had no diplomatic representation, such as Hong Kong.
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