Sponsored by the Xinhua News Agency, Xinhuanet is China’s important central news service-oriented website, and one of the most influential news portals in the world.

Supported by the domestic and oversea branches of Xinhua News Agency and its 29 provincial channels and companies overseas, Xinhuanet has developed its own global network for collecting news and information, and is an all-media information gathering, processing and spreading platform, boasting a strong spreading power, a wide coverage, a comprehensive collecting means and varied forms of dissemination among the Chinese network media.

Cherishing the idea to "Publicize China and Report the World" in an “Authoritative Voice, Cordially Conveyed”, Xinhuanet releases global news information 24 hours daily in languages of Chinese (simplified and traditional), English, French, Spanish, Russian, Arabic, Japanese, Korean, German, Portuguese, Tibetan, and Uygur.

According to Alexa, a U.S. website-ranking service, Xinhuanet was the 71st in the three-month comprehensive ranking among the global websites and the 11th among the Chinese websites up to December 31, 2014.

It topped the 2014 Ranking List of Classified Websites released by the China Internet Weekly under the Chinese Academy of Sciences, leading the comprehensive news websites including People.com, QQ.com, Sina.com, ifeng.com.

Besides, Xinhuanet has won a number of prizes of Chinese Journalism Prize and Chinese Internet Award for its outstanding pieces and brand columns. “Premier Wen Jiabao’s online Interactions with Netizens”, “Xinhua Live” and many other news reports and columns came out first in Chinese Journalism Prize; “First Response”, “Xinhuanet Comment” and other columns were honored as Brand Columns of Chinese Websites.

Xinhuanet also took home the titles “Excellent Chinese Cultural Website”, "Most Influential Brand of Chinese Website”, “Top Ten of Chinese New Media Brands”, “Innovative Chinese New Media of the Year” and other important prizes in this industry.

Xinhuanet has been entrusted to build and maintain a largest cluster of major government websites, including Chinese Government Website (gov.cn), Chinese Civilization Website (wenming.cn), and Cyberspace Administration of China Website (cac.gov.cn).

Wen Jiabao, former premier, engaged interactions with Xinhuanet and gov.cn netizens on three consecutive occasions. A total of one hundred officials at provincial or ministerial level and thousands of enterprises’ leaders have given exclusive interviews to Xinhuanet and gov.cn.

Meanwhile, a group of high political leaders with strong influence on the international arena have interacted with netizens online through Xinhuanet, including American President Barack Obama, Russian Prime Minister Dmitry Medvedev, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, Parkstani Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif, United Nations Under-Sectary-General Peter Launsky-Tieffenthal.

In recent years, with increasingly greater marketability and comprehensive competitiveness, Xinhuanet has focused its efforts mainly on the development of the ten aspects: website business, social network, Internet advertising business, mobile Internet, big data and public opinion service, development of new media technology and applications, online education and informationization of science popularization, Internet of things, equity participation and reserves.

Its all-media industrial chain has quickened formation and its research capability on new product in line with market needs strengthened.

In 2014, it was awarded the annual “Internet Media with Greatest Commercial Value”by the China Internet Weekly of the Chinese Academy of Sciences.

Xinhuanet speeds up Internet technology development and expands function applications, further raising its independent research and development ability.

It was the first to be recognized as a high-tech enterprise among all the Chinese central news service-oriented websites as 40 of its software products were certificated with complete independent intellectual property right.

In 2014, it received the quality management system certificate jointly issued by CNAS and ANAB, and officially passed the ISO9001: 2008, it was the first national level Internet media to receive the quality management system certificate.