Xinhua News Agency

Xinhua News Agency (Xinhua), the state news agency of the People’s Republic of China, is a major news and information collecting and distribution center in China. Xinhua was called Red China News Agency at its founding in November 1931 and got its current name in 1937 with more than 7,000 news reporters and editors as well as business management and technical support staff.

The head office of Xinhua is in Beijing and its news and information collecting and processing system is made up of three parts: the head office, domestic branches and overseas bureaus.

Xinhua has branches in 31 provinces, autonomous regions and centrally-administered municipalities (Taiwan is not included), as well as in the Hong Kong and Macao special administrative regions. It also has sub-branch offices or correspondent stations in more than 50 large and medium-sized cities.