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Brief Introduction of Xinhua News
[columns size="1/2" last="false"]Xinhua News Agency, Xinhua in short, founded on November 7, 1931, is the state news agency of China and a world news agency as well.With its headquarters in Beijing, Xinhua has established 33 branches in China’s provinces, autonomous regions, municipalities, The Hong Kong Special Administrative Region and The Macao Special Administrative Region, and has resident correspondents in Taiwan Province.There are more than 180 overseas bureaus, constituting a worldwide network of news and information gathering and releasing.Xinhua has a multi-lingual, multi-media, multi-channel, multi-level, multi-function news release system, offering its broad clients news and financial information products in the forms of text, photo, graphic, audio, video and mobile phone message 24 hours a day in eight languages of Chinese, English, French, Russian, Spanish, Arabic, Portuguese and Japanese. In the new era, particularly in therecent years, Xinhua has been comprehensively promoting the strategic transformation, building up initially an all-media group merging into one all of the services of news agency, newspapers and magazines, television, network,financial information, new media and multimedia database.The Agency’s website Xinhuanet.com is one of “China's most influential news websites”. It supplies multimedia news in eight languages, 24 hours a day. It also boasts 31 local channels and hosts China's largest block of government websites including gov.cn, the official website of the Chinese central government, zgpaw.com.cn, wenming.cn, Chinaneast.gov.cn and ocpe.com.cn.Xinhua has independently developed a comprehensive financial information platform with advanced communication technologies. Its key product - Xinhua 08 - covers multiple fields including macro-economics, foreign exchanges, monetary, securities markets, etc.[/columns][columns size="1/2" last="true"]Within the print media sector Xinhua News Agency has a portfolio of more than 20 newspapers and magazines, with combined single-issue circulation topping 10 million. Its highly respected newspapers, such as 'The Xinhua Daily Telegraph', and news magazines, such as the popular 'Outlook', are among the most authoritative and influential publications in the country.Xinhua also possesses China's largest photographic archive, containing an impressive collection of over 5 million digitalized contemporary and historic photos, the oldest of which were taken at the end of the 19th century during the Qing Dynasty, the last of China’s imperial rulers.
Xinhua also has the largest multi-lingual databank in China's media industry. By the end of 2013 it had stored 120 million text messages, more than 19 million photo and graphic products, 650000 hours of audio and video news broadcasts. This constantly upgraded and daily-growing databank provides modern, fast, commercial intelligence that displays Xinhua's news and information products in many languages and multimedia formats, directly serving its end users of China and abroad.
In February of 2013 Xinhua opened the New Media Service, providing integrated products integrating different kinds of reports and also running N times convergence services upon the needs of the clients.Xinhua works closely in partnership with many international media and news groups. It has operational agreements with news and publishing organizations from more than 100 countries and regions worldwide to cooperate and share news and other services, personnel exchanges and technical operations.[/columns]
Services
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- News for Overseas Service
- News in Chinese for Overseas Service
- The Asia-Pacific News Service in Chinese
- Xinhua News Bulletin in English
- The Asia-Pacific News Service in English
- The News Service in French
- The News Service in Spanish
- The News Service in Arabic
- The News Service in Russian
- The China African News Service in English
- The News Service in Portuguese
- Photo & Graphic Services For Overseas
- General Wire Photo Service
- Sports Photo Service
- Graphic & Cartoon Service
- Stringers Photo Service
- China Photo Archives
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- Audio & Video Services
- China Xinhua News Network Corp
- Domestic & Overseas TV News Service with Chinese Script
- Ready-to-Air TV Programs
- English TV News Service
- Economic Information Products for Overseas
- China Economic Information Service (Chinese)
- China Economic Information Service (English) - CEI
- China Oil, Gas and Petrochemicals
- China Metals
- China Auto 2000
- Xinhua Silk Road Products
- Belt & Road Weekly
- Xinhua Silk Road Database
- Research or Consulting
Belt and Road Weekly Sample
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