The Media in China 
With the economic development that started in the 1980s and the arrival of the Internet in the 1990s, Chinese media have become more diversified as they extend their reach
throughout China through multiple transmission, including satellites, wireless and wired systems.
News Agencies
Headquartered in Beijing, Xinhua News Agency is the nation's official news agency, and also one of the major international news agencies in the world, with over 100 branch offices in the
Asian-Pacific region, the Middle East, Latin America, Africa and other regions. In 2003, its subordinate Xinhua Financial Network Ltd. formed an international alliance with Agence
France-Presse ("AFP") Finance. Xinhua Financial Network Ltd. purchased the news agencies of AFP Asian Finance in Hong Kong, Japan, South Korea, and Singapore and other
eight Asian countries and regions, which expanded the coverage of Xinhua News Agency's international network. With its head office also in Beijing, China News Service
mainly supplies news to overseas Chinese, foreign citizens of Chinese origin, and compatriots in the Hong Kong Special Administrative Region, the Macao Special Administrative Region, and Taiwan.
Newspapers From 1950 to 2000, the number of Chinese newspapers increased nearly 10 times. In 2003, over 400 kinds of daily newspapers
were issued in China and the print run reached 80 million, most of any country in the world. At present, 39 newspaper groups such
as Beijing Daily Newspaper Group, Wenhui Xinmin Associated Newspaper Group and Guangzhou Daily Newspaper Group have
been organized. In 2003, trans-regional cooperation among the print media became a new trend. New Beijing Newspaper, invested
and run by Guangming Daily Newspaper Group and Nanfang Daily Newspaper Group, was the first one approved formally by the
Chinese government to publish trans-regionally. And Orient-Observation Weekly came out at the end of 2003 in Shanghai in which
the biggest shareholder is the Xinhua News Agency headquartered in Beijing. Radio
The Central People's Broadcasting Station ("CPBS"), the nation's official radio station, has eight channels, and broadcasts for a
total of 156 hours per day through satellite. Every province, autonomous region and municipality has local broadcasting stations.
China Radio International ("CRI"), the only national overseas broadcasting station, is beamed to all parts of the world in 38 foreign
languages, standard Chinese and four Chinese dialects and broadcasts for a total of 290 hours every day. It offers various special
programs of news, current affairs, remarks, entertainment, politics, economy, culture and technology and so on. Currently, CRI ranks third in overseas broadcasting time and languages in the world.
Television
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