1. Television of China
20108004
Rui Zeng

2. Directory
• Introduction
• History of China's TV
• China today's TV
• Reference

3. Introduction
• The television industry in the People's Republic of China
includes high-tech program production, transmission and
coverage. China Central Television is China's largest
and most powerful national television station. By the
nineteen eighties two thirds of people in China had
access to television while today over 3,000 channels are
available in the country.

4. History of China's TV----Origins
• When the People's Republic was
founded in 1949, the
telecommunications systems and
facilities in China were outdated and
rudimentary, and many had been
damaged or destroyed during the war
years. Communications in China were
established rapidly in the early 1950s.
By 1952 the principal
telecommunications network centered
on Beijing, and links to all large cities
had finally been established, also
launching television broadcasts. The
first national broadcasts began on
May, 1, 1958, and Beijing Television
(now China Central Television since
1978) was formally launched on
September 2, 1958. A month later
would see the launch of the first
regional station, Shanghai Television,
on the 9th PRC National Day, October
1, 1958. Liaoning Television would • May 1, 1958China's first television production site
begin a year later, and in 1960
Zhejiang and Guandong provinces had
their stations begin fulll broadcasts.

5. History of China's TV----Origins
Growth in telecommunications halted with the general
economic collapse after the Great Leap Forward (1958–60)
but revived in the 1960s: radio-television service was installed
in major cities in these years. By 1965 there were 12 television
stations in mainland China (compared to approximately 700
conventional television stations and about 3,000 cable
channels today). Similarly, in 1978, there was less than one
television receiver per 100 people, and fewer than ten million
Chinese had access to a television set (in 2003 there were
about 35 TVs for every 100 people, and roughly a billion
Chinese had access to television); expansion and
modernization of the broadcasting systems continued
throughout the late-1970s and early 1980s.

6. History of China's TV----After reform and opening
up
The Ministry of Radio and Television was established as a
separate entity in 1982 to administer and upgrade the
status of television and radio broadcasting. Subordinate to
this ministry were the Central People's Broadcasting
Station, Radio Beijing, and China Central Television.
Additionally, the various broadcasting training, talent-
search, research, publishing, and manufacturing
organizations were brought under the control of the Ministry
of Radio and Television. In 1986 responsibility for the
movie industry was transferred from the Ministry of Culture
to the new Ministry of Radio, Cinema, and Television.

7. History of China's TV---2000s
In 2001, the Chinese government put forward a
goal of promoting media amalgamation by
establishing trans-regional multi-media news
groups. The State Administration of Radio, Film,
and Television (SARFT), founded at the end of
2001,By 2003, 30 overseas television networks,
including Phoenix Television, Bloomberg
Television, STAR TV, Eurosport, BBC World,
CNBC,

8. Today
Altogether there are 3,000 television stations across the
country. Large international TV expositions, including the
Shanghai Television Festival, Beijing International
Television Week, China Radio and Television Exposition
and Sichuan Television Festival, are held on a regular
basis.
Besides judging and conferring awards, these festivals
conduct academic exchange and the import and export
of TV programs. Shanghai has become the largest
television program trading market in Asia.
Since China entered the World Trade Organization, the
trend within China's media industry is to form inter-media
and trans-regional media groups operated with multiple
patterns so as to meet competition and challenges from
powerful overseas media groups.

9. Reference
• http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Television_in_the_People
%27s_Republic_of_China
• http://baike.baidu.com/view/125699.htm

10. THANK YOU