Governments may also control news agencies: China ( Xinhua ), Russia ( ITAR-TASS ) and other countries also have government-funded news agencies which also use information from other agencies as well.

Xinhua is also responsible for handling, and in some cases, censoring reports from foreign media destined to release in China.

Xinhua has also started an English-language satellite news network.

According to Xinhua News Agency, " police officers are also reluctant to pull over drivers of military vehicles even if the drivers are breaking the law " 16 June 2009, Chinese army, police seize thousands of fake military license plates, IDs.

According to Xinhua News Agency, " police officers are also reluctant to pull over drivers of military vehicles even if the drivers are breaking the law ", which is the reason behind an emerging trend in which individuals purchase counterfeit military registration plates to avoid being pulled over by police.

Xinhua is located on Taiwan Highway No. 20, also known as the Southern Cross-Island Highway, and Freeway Nos.

Apart from news writing, Mu was also famous for his directorship of the Xinhua News Agency.

He also took up the posts of the principal of Huangzhong Journalism College ( 華中新聞專科學校 ), chairman of Huangzhong Branch of New China News Agency ( 新華社華中總分社 ) and Huangzhong Post of Xinhua Daily 《 新華日報 》( 華中報 ).

He was also under contract to provide images to Xinhua.

Rittenberg also worked for the Xinhua News Agency and Radio Peking.

They also have news exchange agreements with Xinhua of China, UNB of Bangladesh, Gulf News Agency of Bahrain, WAM of the United Arab Emirates, KUNA of Kuwait News Agency, ONA of Oman and QNA of Qatar.

According to Xinhua News Agency, " police officers are also reluctant to pull over drivers of military vehicles even if the drivers are breaking the law ", which is the reason behind an emerging trend where individuals purchase counterfeit military registration plates to avoid being pulled over by police.

The official Chinese press agency, Xinhua News Agency, and other state media asserted that the self-immolators were practitioners, though the Falun Dafa Information Center disputed this, on the grounds that the movement's teachings explicitly forbid suicide and killing, further alleging that the event was a cruel but clever piece of stunt-work.

For example by 2009, the South Korean community in Shanghai increased to more than 70, 000 according to Xinhua.

Largely written by educated youths such as Liu Xinhua, Zhang Xianliang, and Liu Xinwu, scar literature depicted the Revolution from a negative viewpoint, using their own perspectives and experiences as a basis.

At the end of 1965, the Central Committee of the Communist Party of China officially approved the book for publication by the People's Publishing House and for distribution within China by the Xinhua Bookstore.

A publication called Reference Information ( Cankao Ziliao )— which includes translated articles from abroad as well as news and commentary by senior Xinhua reporters — is delivered by Xinhua personnel, rather than by the national mail system, to officials at the working level and above.

The government responded by closing off the south-west wing of the 301 Military Hospital ; and directed that all news related to Huang on television and on the internet be follow official releases from Xinhua.

A publication called Reference News — which includes translated articles from abroad as well as news and commentary by senior Xinhua reporters — is delivered by Xinhua personnel, rather than by the national mail system, to officials at the working level and above.

One example was the first reports on the SARS outbreak by Xinhua which only government officials were allowed to see.

Bloomberg Businessweek commented on the opening of Xinhua Finance, saying that it would have to overcome the " Xinhua stigma " of being associated with " official propaganda ", and suspicions by outsiders of its credibility.

The current main gate, Xinhua Gate or " Gate of New China ", was created by Yuan Shikai.

The most important entrance to the compound is the southern one at Xinhuamen ( Xinhua Gate, or " Gate of New China "), surrounded by two slogans: " long live the great Communist Party of China " and " long live the invincible Mao Zedong Thought.

It was announced on November 18, 2003, by the People's Republic of China's Xinhua News Agency as a response to the popular DVD-Video format and its licensing costs ( which some considered excessive ).

Support for the disc format had been dropped by the Xinhua Bookstore in Wuhan, which was a major supporter of the format, due to a lack of sales.

Investigations by China Youth Daily and others verified the accusations, and by April 4 Xinhua reported Li Chang's ouster.

News of the demonstration on 1 July was noticeably absent from the Chinese-language versions of China's state media outlets such as the People's Daily and Xinhua Press Agency, however there has been reporting on the demonstration's political aftermath.

Perhaps unique in the world because of its role, size, and reach, Xinhua reports directly to the party's Propaganda Department ; employs more than 10, 000 people — as compared to about 1, 300 for the UK's Reuters, for example ; has 107 bureaus worldwide both collecting information on other countries and dispensing information about mainland China ; and maintains 31 bureaus in China — one for each province plus a military bureau.

In its drive to globalize its content and reach new audiences, Xinhua has entered into a partnership with CNEWSCO, LLC, an apolitical American company.

Xinhua for its own part has criticized the perception of Western media objectivity, citing an incident during the 2008 Tibetan unrest when Western media outlets used a picture of Nepalese police beating Tibetan protesters, misleadingly labeling the pictures as of Chinese police, with commentary from CNN calling Chinese leaders " goons and thugs ".

KCNA has press exchange agreements with around 46 foreign news agencies including Itar-Tass and Xinhua News Agency and South Korea's Yonhap News Agency with correspondents and bureaux in six countries, including Russia and China.

Tobacco is the only cash crop grown in Kasungu, and the area has been described as a " tobacco heartland " by Xinhua News Agency.

The Xinhua News Agency has its headquarters in the Dacheng Plaza ( 大成大厦 Dàchéng Dàshà ) in Xicheng.

Xinhua News Agency reported in 2008 that since July 2006, the government has confiscated over 4, 000 fake military vehicles and 6, 300 fake plates and has apprehended over 5, 000 people belonging to criminal gangs ; under Chinese law, those caught driving under fake registration plates are fined up to 2, 000 RMB, and counterfeiters can be jailed for up to three years.

Since the early part of the 20th century, Xinhua has been an important fruit wholesaling center.

Most of these buildings survive in good condition, and the street, known as " Xinhua Old Street ," has become a tourist attraction.

China has indicated they intend to expand their regional navigation system, called Beidou or Big Dipper, into a global navigation system by 2020 a program that has been called Compass in China's official news agency Xinhua.

Before the union, the overhead management of Xinhua has installed a nearly complete system of the flight transport, the maintenance, the sale, air, and the administration of service, control and emergency of the earth and the good obtained performances, maintain an annotation of no accidental incidents for 8 years.

The Xinhua News Agency, the official news agency of the Chinese authority, once described that Cradock was a " friend of China and an experienced British diplomat who at the same time bears in mind to safeguard the interests of his country … History has proved his sincerity and objectivity.

MNA has so far signed contracts with more than 18 foreign news agencies including the Japanese Kyodo News Agency, the Spanish EFE, the Chinese Xinhua News Agency, the Cuba ’ s official Prensa Latina ( PL ), the Russian Interfax Ltd, the Press Trust of India ( PTI ), Korea's YONHAP, the Vietnam News Agency ( VNA ), the Turkish Cihan News Agency, Malaysia ’ s BERNAMA, Indonesia ’ s ANTARA, the Azerbaijani Trend News Agency, Mongolia ’ s MONTSAME, the Syrian Arab News Agency ( SANA ), the Associated Press of Pakistan ( APP ), and the Philippines News Agency ( PNA ).

The organization is considered one of the " big three " media outlets in China, along with the People's Daily and Xinhua.

Even so, many Xinhua reporters were angry with top editors for not going far enough and for suppressing stories about the Tiananmen Square crackdown.

Even so, many Xinhua reporters were angry with top editors for not going far enough and for suppressing stories about the Tiananmen Square crackdown.

The Xinhua News Agency established its first overseas affiliate in 1947 in London, with Samuel Chinque as publisher.

In 2001, Hong Kong-listed media company Sing Tao News Corporation Limited invested in joint ventures with Xinhua News Agency to set up a market information Web site and offer audio and visual services planning and consulting.

In an interview with Indian media in 2007, the head of Xinhua, Tian Congmin, affirmed the problem of " historical setbacks and popular perceptions ".

A 2008 Xinhua survey noted that a large number elementary school students have vague knowledge of Lei Feng's life, with 68 percent of the surveyed having not read Lei Feng's diary.

Xinhua shares the border with Lengshuijiang, Lianyuan, Xinshao, Xupu and Longhui counties and cities.

The group was formed with the assistance of the Xinhua News Agency.

They include the Xinhua News Agency, the People's Daily Press, Dow Jones News Agency, the University of International Business and Economics, the Peking University Founder Group Corporation, Sanlian Group, dnmstrategies together with other partners.

KCNA, the state news service, apparently confirmed the Xinhua report by stating the incident was " due to the electrical contact caused by carelessness during the shunting of wagons loaded with ammonium-nitrate fertilizer ".

The University of International Affairs in Beijing was formally brought under the control of the Ministry of Public Security in 1965, and was charged with training intelligence agents for the Investigation Department ( a precursor to the Ministry of State Security ) and for Xinhua News Agency.

He required all journalists of the Xinhua News Agency to work in conformity with the principles of the Party and the Central Government.

In a brief report in May, Xinhua quoted anonymous sources as saying Chinese courts handed down 30 percent fewer death sentences in 2007 compared with 2006.

In Nov 29, 2007, it merged with Shanxi Airlines and China Xinhua Airlines to form Grand China Air, a subsidiary of Hainan Airlines.

In Nov 29, 2007, it merged with China Xinhua Airlines and Chang ’ an Airlines to form Grand China Air, a subsidiary of Hainan Airlines.

It mostly prints Xinhua wire reports, with one page devoted to local news.