China News Service is the second largest state news agency in China,after Xinhua News Agency. China News Service was formerly run by the Overseas Chinese Affairs Office,which was absorbed into the United Front Work Department of the Central Committee of the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) in 2018. Its operations have traditionally been directed at overseas Chinese worldwide and residents of Hong Kong,Macau and Taiwan.
CITIC Group Corporation Ltd.,formerly the China International Trust Investment Corporation (CITIC),is a state-owned investment company of the People's Republic of China,established by Rong Yiren in 1979 with the approval of Deng Xiaoping. Its headquarters are in Chaoyang District,Beijing. As of 2019,it is China's biggest state-run conglomerate with one of the largest pools of foreign assets in the world. In 2023,the company was ranked 71st in the Forbes Global 2000.
The United Front Work Department is a department of the Central Committee of the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) tasked with "united front work". It gathers intelligence on,manages relations with,and attempts to gain influence over elite individuals and organizations inside and outside mainland China,including in Hong Kong,Taiwan,and in other countries.
China Radio International (CRI) is the state-owned international radio broadcaster of China. It is currently headquartered in Babaoshan,Shijingshan,Beijing. It was founded on December 3,1941,as Radio Peking. It later adopted the pinyin form Radio Beijing.
China Today,until 1990 titled China Reconstructs,is a monthly magazine founded in 1952 by Soong Ching-ling in association with Israel Epstein. It is published in Chinese language,English,Spanish,French,Arabic,German and Turkish,and is an official outlet of the Chinese Communist Party,intended to promote knowledge of China's culture,geography,economy and social affairs as well as positive view of the People's Republic of China and its government to people outside of China.
The People's Liberation Army Rocket Force,formerly the Second Artillery Corps,is the strategic and tactical missile force of the People's Republic of China. The PLARF is the 4th branch of the People's Liberation Army (PLA) and controls China's arsenal of land-based ballistic,hypersonic,cruise missiles—both nuclear and conventional. The armed service branch was established on 1 July 1966 and made its first public appearance on 1 October 1984. The headquarters for operations is located at Qinghe,Beijing. The PLARF is under the direct command of the Chinese Communist Party's Central Military Commission (CMC).
China State Railway Group Co.,Ltd.,doing business as China Railway (CR),is the national passenger and freight railroad corporation of the People's Republic of China.
Foreign Languages Press is a publishing house located in China.
The Ministry of Industry and Information Technology (MIIT) is the sixth-ranked executive department of the State Council of the People's Republic of China. It is responsible for regulation and development of the postal service,Internet,wireless,broadcasting,communications,production of electronic and information goods,software industry and the promotion of the national knowledge economy.
The China Railway Engineering Corporation (CREC) is a state-owned holding company of China,which is under the supervision of the State Council. The company is the major shareholder of China Railway Group Limited (CRGL),its subsidiary.
China Film Group Corporation (CFGC) is the largest,most influential film enterprise in the People's Republic of China,owned by the Central Propaganda Department of the Chinese Communist Party. According to Forbes,it is a state monopoly that all imported films have to work with. It also runs theaters and finances,produces,and distributes films. In 2014,the company was the largest film distributor in China,with 32.8% of the market.
China Internet Information Center is a state-run web portal of the People's Republic of China's State Council Information Office and the China International Communications Group.
Beijing Review,previously Peking Review,is China's only national news magazine in English,published by the Chinese Communist Party-owned China International Publishing Group.
Beijing Automotive Group Co.,Ltd. is a Chinese state-owned automobile manufacturer headquartered in Shunyi,Beijing. Founded in 1958,it is the sixth largest automobile manufacturer in China,with 1.723 million sales in 2021.
The China Pictorial,known in Chinese as Renmin Huabao is a Chinese monthly magazine first published in 1950. The title of the magazine was handwritten by Mao Zedong. It was one of four publications allowed during the Cultural Revolution in China. The magazine was instrumental to promote the revolution.
Qi Pingjing was a former Chinese government official. During his career,Qi served as the Deputy Director of the China International Publishing Group and the chief executive of the China International Book Trading Corporation. In December 2013 Qi was removed from his positions and placed under investigation by the Central Commission for Discipline Inspection of the Chinese Communist Party.
New World Press (NWP) is a Beijing-based Chinese publishing house. New World Press has published more than 5000 titles,publishing exclusively in foreign languages including English before 1997,and exclusively in Chinese after 2002.
China Media Group also known as Voice of China,is the predominant state media company by means of radio and television broadcasting in the People's Republic of China. It was founded on 21 March 2018,as a fusion of all state-holding media enterprises including China Central Television,China National Radio,and China Radio International.
The Economic Daily is a Chinese state-owned newspaper focusing on economic reports. Founded in Beijing on January 1,1983,the newspaper is managed by the Central Propaganda Department of the Chinese Communist Party.
Du Zhanyuan,born in Huarong,Hunan,is a politician in the People's Republic of China.
