People’s Posts and Telecommunications News (PPTN) is directly under the supervision of the Ministry of Information Industry (MII) of China, People’s Posts and Telecommunications News Agency(PPTNA) is the authoritative news agency in China’s communication and information industry.
Currently, PPTNA possesses three newspapers as People’s Posts and Telecommunications News (PPTN), China Netizen News, and China Philately; and three magazines as China Telecom Industry, China Radio Management, and Posts and Telecommunications Enterprises Management. It also runs a website----China Information Industry Net(CNII) ,a TV news program-producing center and China Philately Net.
PPTN is one of the earliest industrial newspapers established in China and the most valuable publications with the largest circulation. The masthead of “People’s Posts and Telecommunications” in Chinese was inscribed by Chairman Mao Zedong at Xibaipo in December 1948 to the newspaper under preparation. After 50 years’ development, PPTN has become the number one publication in China’s communication industry. It sets up a bridge for domestic and foreign professionals, helps them enhance the understanding and extend the cooperation; hence brings itself great fame in the communication industry at home and abroad.
Based on PPTNA's six publications (including three newspapers and three periodicals), CNII is also backed by PPTNA's journalists who endeavor to collect latest industrial information at home and abroad. Therefore, CNII can offer timely, full-scale and authoritative information,information consultation, information technology and products release for domestic and foreign info-communications industry.
After years of construction, PPTNA has fostered a group of expert journalists, most of whom possess a bachelor degree or a master degree. Meanwhile, PPTNA has led the capital’s journalism industry in building the computer-editing network, and its whole procedures of news collecting, editing and publishing are computerized. The editors and reporters in headquarter as well as reporters throughout the country are equipped with high-tech tools as computer and digital camera. Reporters in other places are also able to send the contributions and news photos to the Intranet via Internet; thus the timeliness of news reporting is greatly improved.
To serve the information industry in every aspect, PPTNA also organizes activities as forum and seminar on important issues in the industry, in order to discuss the developing strategy with the enterprises. Many of the activities were widely welcomed in the field, such as ’99 China Information Harbour Forum,New Telecom Forum,2000 Summit Seminar on Trend of Wireless Communication Development in the New Century, and publishing of the series of analyzing articles of ten focus issues in China’s current telecom industry.
With the coming of information times, PPTNA is facing the new developing opportunities. To comply with the requirement of MII, the publications issued by PPTNA will expand reporting scopes and enhance the reporting qualities. PPTNA will endeavor to build itself into an authoritative newspaper group with high efficiency in China’s communication and information industry, and devote itself to the development of our national information industry.
