Xinhua
The headquarters of the New China News Agency, also known as Xinhua News Agency, are located at No 57, Xuanwumen Xidajie, 100803 Beijing - P.R.China. Founded in 1931, it is the Government news agency for the People’s Republic of China, as well as being a world level news agency.
Its current Chairman is Li CongJun, while its Managing Director is He Ping.
Xinhua News Agency counts 16,000 journalists and employees in China, 2500 journalists and employees abroad, 33 editorial offices dotted all over China, and another 168 editorial offices in the rest of the world.
Forms of communication:
- Traditional forms of communication: text, photography, graphics, special reports, and “reserved” national and international articles. Xinhua News Agency has developed a multilevel, multifunctional news channel, providing news 24 hours a day in eight languages: Chinese, English, French, Russian, Spanish, Arabic, Portuguese and Japanese, in the form of texts, photographs, graphics, audio, video, Internet, SMS, and other new media, as well as financial news products.
- Xinhua News Agency also issues over 12,000 daily news items and pieces of information. Internet users can find out world news and information on its official websites: www.xinhuanet.com and www.news.cn.
- New forms of communication: Xinhua has had its own Multimedia Database since the development of new Internet, news, audio, video, and SMS technologies, as well as other forms of communication. This database is the biggest and most advanced in the world in terms of multilingual and multimedia international data. Xinhua News Agency news products reach a national and international audience thanks to its widespread coverage and user network. Moreover, since the foundation of the company C.N.C., it provides 800 minutes of television news a day, occupying first place in the international television news bulletin sector in terms of the speed of its communication, quality, live broadcasts, special reports, product optimisation, enterprise and user coverage when compared to U.S. Cable Television News, BBC, AP, Reuters, Agence France-Presse, and hundreds of other national and international media organisations. "www.xhstv.com"
- Publications: Xinhua News Agency publishes over 20 different publications, including newspapers and periodical magazines, with a minimum daily print run and total distribution of 10 million copies.
Its publications include: the “Reference News” paper, with an average daily circulation of over 3.5 million copies, the biggest print-run in China and the fifth biggest in the world; the fortnightly magazine “Comment”, with over 500,000 copies published; and “Xinhua Daily Telegraph”, with a daily print-run of over 1.5 million copies, becoming the first newspaper containing global news to reach a circulation of over 1 million copies.
Xinhua News Agency provides in-depth reports on international, financial and cultural issues, building a network of cooperation and exchange with foreign agencies to develop a wide-ranging business. The agency aims to intensify and increase relations with government institutions and bodies for promotions in China and from China to the Rest of the World. Xinhua News Agency currently has cooperation agreements in place with over 100 countries, news agencies and government bodies.