Xinhua News Agency

3 min readFeb 15, 2022

Xinhua News Agency (English pronunciation: /ˌʃɪnˈhwɑː/)[1], or New China News Agency, is the official state press agency of the People’s Republic of China. Xinhua is the largest and most influential media organization in China, as well as the largest news agency as measured by the number of worldwide correspondents.[2] Xinhua is a ministry-level institution subordinate to the State Council and is the highest ranking state media organ in the country alongside the People’s Daily. He Ping, President of Xinhua, is a member of the Central Committee of the Chinese Communist Party.[3]

Xinhua is a publisher as well as a news agency, and it operates more than 170 foreign news bureaus worldwide and maintains 31 bureaus in China, one for each province, autonomous region and directly administered municipality, in addition to a military bureau. Xinhua is a major channel for the distribution of information related to the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) and Chinese central government. Its headquarters in Beijing are strategically located close to the central government’s headquarters at Zhongnanhai.

Xinhua tailors its pro-CCP message to the nuances of each audience.[4] Xinhua has faced criticism for spreading state propaganda and for criticizing people, groups, or movements critical of the CCP.[5][6][7][8]

1History
2Reach
2.1Internal media
3Headquarters and regional sectors
3.1Hong Kong
3.2Cairo
3.3Vientiane
4Criticisms and controversies
4.1Overview
4.1.1Political bias, censorship, and disinformation
4.2Historical events
4.2.11968 industrial espionage allegations
4.2.21989 Tiananmen Square protests and massacre
4.2.32011 Bob Dechert emails
4.2.42012 Mark Bourrie resignation and espionage allegations
4.2.52014 Song Bin suicide
4.2.62017 Doklam standoff
4.2.72018 Devumi allegations
4.2.82019 Hong Kong protests
4.2.9Cooperation with Associated Press
4.2.10COVID-19
5See also
6References
7External links

History[edit]

Building of Red China News Agency in 1937

Politics of China

show

Leadership

show

Communist Party

show

United Front

show

Ideology

show

Constitution
Law

show

Legislative

show

Presidency

show

Executive

show

Military

show

Supervision

show

Judiciary
Law enforcement

show

Propaganda

show

Hong Kong
Macau

show

Cross-Strait relations

show

Foreign relations

show

Related topics

China portal

Other countries
v
t
e

The predecessor to Xinhua was the Red China News Agency (紅色中華通訊社; Hóngsè Zhōnghuá Tōngxùnshè), founded in November 1931 as the Chinese Soviet Zone of Ruijin, Jiangxi province. It mostly republished news from its rival Central News Agency (CNA) for party and army officials. The agency got its name of Xinhua in November 1935, at the end of the Long March, in which the Chinese Red Army retreated from Jiangxi to Shaanxi. By the outbreak of the Second Sino-Japanese War in 1937, Xinhua’s Reference News translated CNA news from the Kuomintang, and also international news from agencies like TASS and Havas. Xinhua first started using letterpress printing in 1940.

Xinhua News Agency

Contents

History[edit]

Written by Vogopas