• Xinhua News Agency is China’s main national news agency with a worldwide presence.
  • The predecessor of Xinhua News Agency was the Red China News Agency, which was established in Ruijin, Jiangxi, on November 7, 1931. The agency was rebranded in Yanan, Shaanxi and  is known under its current name since January 1937. The Xinhua News Agency is headquartered in Beijing, with branches in all provinces and regions in mainland China. Some reporters are stationed in Taiwan.
  • The Xinhua News Agency has also established branches in the People’s Liberation Army, the Chinese People’s Armed Police Force and 180 branches abroad.
  • Xinhua News Agency has established a global news information collection network, and formed a multilingual, multimedia, multi-channel, multi-level, and multi-functional news release system. The Xinhua News Agency provides Chinese, English, French, Russian, Spanish, Arabic, Portuguese and Japanese language reporting 24 hours a day, providing news and information products and services through various means to audiences worldwide.
  • Xinhua is the sole channel for distributing important news related to the Communist Party and Chinese central government,
  • Xinhua is a publisher as well as a news agency—it owns more than 20 newspapers and a dozen magazines, and offers paper and online publications in several languages besides Chinese, including English, German, Spanish, French, Russian, Portuguese, Arabic, Japanese and Korean.