:: Brief Introduction to Xinhuanet.com
¡¡Xinhuanet.com is a famous news website run by Xinhua News Agency, the state news agency of China. Collecting news resources from over 150 branches all over the world, Xinhuanet.com releases news around the clock in eight languages, namely, Chinese (GB, Big5), English, French, Spanish, Russian, Arabic, Japanese and Portuguese.
¡¡Xinhuanet.com shows its strength as a leading news website in several aspects, such as making exclusive reports on hot topics, tracking sudden incidents, making influential in-depth analyses and comments, etc. Actually, it is the confluence of online news and information whose timely, authoritative and accurate reports draw the attention of Internet users around the world.

:: Characteristics and Advantages
¡¡Xinhuanet.com maintains its leading position in terms of the amount of original news items, photos and the response speed to both major domestic and international events.
¡¡As the sponsor of Xinhuanet.com, Xinhua News Agency has China's biggest news photo archives with millions of negatives. The over 60,0000 news photos released by Xinhua News Agency a year make the webpages of Xinhuanet.com colorful and very appealing to millions of browsers around the world.
¡¡As a news website features multi-language and multi-media reporting, ¡¡Xinhuanet.com also provides BBS interactive service for its readers. Its Development Forum and the Reunification Forum have became popular online opinion-exchanging places for experts, scholars and other intellectuals, as well as common people to air their serious views on various subjects.
¡¡The online live-broadcast service of Xinhuanet.com, a popular way of tracking major events instantly, covers important meetings, press conferences and activities of central departments.
¡¡As the only authorized online news provider appointed by Xinhua News Agency, Xinhuanet.com supplies news to other Internet Content Providers (ICP) and news websites in China and abroad by integrating various news and information resources of China's state news agency from texts to photos. With an incomparable advantage in reporting, it also provides customized content service for its clients.
¡¡The 35 local channels covering all over China enrich the content of Xinhuanet.com greatly by offering regional information on politics, economy and social life.
¡¡In addition to releasing news, Xinhuanet.com also offers business service such as online shopping, ticket booking, travel information inquiry, etc. Internet users can find what they like to buy or know while reading related news items on Xinhuanet.com.
¡¡A powerful search engine of Xinhuanet.com helps many online surfers find the information they need. The 100M bandwidth of Xinhuanet.com ensures the fast and stable connection to our website.
¡¡Aiming to become the leading broadband ICP in China, Xinhuanet.com also provides an internet platform for government offices, high-tech development zones, large state-owned enterprises and help their information meet millions of readers world wide.

:: Development History
:: Xinhuanet.com was selected by the Preparatory Committee of APEC 2001 Meeting in China as the website mainly undertaking to construct the official website of APEC 2001 meeting. Since the newly designed official APEC 2001 website opened on May 18, 2001, it has reported many important APEC activities accurately and promptly and was praised highly by Zhu Bangzao, a spokesman for China's Foreign Affairs Ministry, as an outstanding contribution to the news release of APEC 2001.
:: Xinhuanet.com held the first China Forum on Internet & Media in Qingdao City in June of 2001 in cooperation with the All-China Journalists Association. Leaders and experts from 150 major Internet media organizations nationwide attended the forum where they discussed how to further develop Internet media in China and explored the ways to select good Internet news stories.
:: In March of 2001, Xinhuanet.com was authorized to live broadcast major events and press conferences of the National People's Congress(NPC) and the Chinese People's Political Consultative Conference(CPPCC). Li Peng, chairman of NPC, visited Xinhuanet.com's reporting site in the Great Hall of the People and praised its timely and accurate reports. Several provincial governors and ministers discussed with Internet users China's tenth Five-year Plan for Social and Economic Development on the Development Forum of Xinhuanet.com.
:: Ding Guangen, a member of the political bureau and a member of the secretariat of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of China, visited Xinhuanet.com on February 7, 2001. He asked Xinhuanet.com to step up its efforts to become more influential by fully utilizing the advantages of socialism.
:: Kofi Annan, the secretary-general of the United Nations, sent a letter to Xinhuanet.com on January 23, 2001, to convey his greetings to the Chinese people on the Spring Festival, the traditional lunar new year holiday. Tian Congming, the president of Xinhua News Agency, and Nan Zhengzhong, the editor-in-chief of Xinhua News Agency, also sent their greetings on the Spring Festival to Chinese Internet users around the world.
:: Media magnate Rupert Murdoch visited Xinhuanet.com on January 4, 2001, accompanied by Tian Congming, the president of Xinhua News Agency. Mr. Murdoch praised the English website of Xinhuanet.com as the best English webpages he had ever seen in China for its rich content and beautiful design.
:: On December 12, 2000, the Information Office of the State Council of China designated Xinhuanet.com as one of the websites eligible to release news online. Xinhuanet.com now releases nearly 2000 news items everyday totaling 1.3 million characters.
:: Xinhua News Agency held a milestone meeting on online reporting at its headquarter in Beijing in September of 2000. Ding Guangen, a member of Political Bureau and a member of Secretariat of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of China, attended the meeting. Addressing the meeting, he urged Xinhua News Agency to work hard to build Xinhuanet.com into a leading news website.
:: Juan Antonio Samaranch, the president of International Olympic Committee, wrote an inscription on August 23, 2000, to mark the opening of Xinhua's Sydney Olympic Games Special Website (http://aoyun.xinhuanet.com). Xinhua Olympic Website reported all the medals won by Chinese athletes on Sydney Olympic Games the fastest in synchronization with TV live broadcast. It was regarded as the best news website reporting Olympic Games with background materials totaling 4.5 million Chinese characters, about 80,000 English words and nearly 1,000 photos.
:: On July 5,2000, the State Administration for Industry and Commerce approved application of Xinhua News Agency for setting up Xinhua Internet Company. According to related laws and regulations, Xinhuanet.com is eligible to carry out business operations in the ICP fields such as online news providing. On the same day, Xinhuanet.com started to use its new domain name, www.xinhuanet.com, while retaining its original one, www.xinhua.org.
:: Xinhuanet.com kicked off real-time updated Russian news service and Arabic news service on April 10, 2000.
:: On March 10, 2000, Xinhuanet.com conducted a facelift after a large-scale content restructuring and the name of Xinhuanet.com was officially used for the first time.
:: Xinhuanet.com started to offer real-time updated English news service, Spanish news service, French news service in January of 2000.
:: On October 1, 1999, Xinhuanet.com broadcast live the grand ceremony and military parade to celebrate the 50th anniversary of the founding of the People's Republic of China. Such online live broadcast is the first of its kind in China.
:: Xinhuanet.com launched a special website covering Macao's return to the motherland in July of 1999. Macao press praised the special website as the most authoritative, comprehensive and valuable information archive on Macao's return to the motherland. The Portuguese news service kicked off in December of 1999 after China resumed the exercise of sovereignty over Macao.
:: In June of 1999, the News and Information Center of Xinhua News Agency set up Chinese Industrial Economic Information Network in cooperation with the Chinese Industrial Newspaper Association and began to release news and information to the public on the platform of Xinhuanet.com.
:: Xinhua News Agency set up its website (http://www.xinhua.org) on Internet on November 7, 1997, in cooperation with the government's telecom sector to mark the 66th anniversary of the founding of Xinhua News Agency.

:: Xinhuanet.com English Service
¡¡The English service of Xinhuanet.com, one of the best on-line news providers in China, focuses on reports on China, while maintaining a close watch over news around the world.
¡¡China Focus and Global Watch are the two leading columns on its homepage. The specially designed column titled Open China offers the Internet users a vivid image of fast-growing China with information on China Guide, Foreigners in China, Overseas Chinese and Learn Chinese.

:: Xinhuanet.com's Multi-language News Service
¡¡As the most comprehensive online foreign language news source in China, Xinhuanet.com's multi-language news service provides the most authoritative and timely news around the world.

:: Xinhuanet.com, an accelerating online ICP aircraft carrier
¡¡Based on the integrated advantage of Xinhua News Agency as the state news agency and a world-famous news agency, Xinhuanet.com has grown into an online aircraft carrier of news and information comprising news service in eight languages, websites of Xinhua's 12 publications and 35 local bureaus throughout China as well as the united website of 40 industrial newspapers.
¡¡Aiming at a multi-language, multi-function and multi-media news powerhouse, Xinhuanet.com welcomes the clicks, comments and suggestions on cooperation from all over the world.