China Today

Founded in 1952 by Song Qingling, former Honorary President of the People's Republic of China, China Today (Jinri Zhongguo) is a comprehensive monthly separately published in five languages --Chinese, English, French, Spanish and Arabic. It also offers Web versions in Chinese, English, French, Spanish, Arabic and German.

Based on China's socialist construction and the lives of the Chinese people, and previously called "China Reconstructs", China Today provides reports on China's politics, economy, culture and arts, education, sports, health and sanitation, science and technology, minority nationalities and the lives of ordinary people. It also has columns on tourism, relics and archaeology, history, geography and other information about China.

The monthly, distributed to more than 150 countries and regions, attracted readers from all walks of life.

  China Pictorial

China Pictorial (Zhongguo Huabao), also known as People's Pictorial (Renmin Huabao), is a general monthly magazine featuring fine photographs and informative articles, under the supervision of the News Office of the State Council and the China Foreign Languages Publishing and Distribution Administration.

The first issue of China Pictorial was published in 1950, and late Chairman Mao Zedong inscribed the title for the magazine.

Over the past fifty years, China Pictorial has witnessed the development of and changes in China through true-to-life pictures and stories. It is published in Chinese and foreign languages and circulated in all the municipalities, provinces, and autonomous regions in China, Hong Kong and Macao Special Administrative Regions, and over 100 foreign countries, enjoying great popularity among both domestic and foreign readers.

China Pictorial's publisher, the China Pictorial Publishing House, established in 1985, is China's only State-level publishing house featuring pictures and multi languages.

During the last fifteen years, the publishing house has given full play to its advantages and published a group of high-quality picture albums, such as Shaolin Kungfu, Vistas of China, The Natural Features of China, The Giant Pandas, Minority People in China, The Great Wall, and Luoyang Peonies. In 1998, in particular, it successfully accomplished the task assigned by the International Communication Office of the CPC Central Committee and published a large picture album entitled History in Focus to represent the whole course of President Jiang Zemin's visit to the United States in the autumn of 1997.

The China Pictorial Publishing House now has 25 full-time editors, 11 of whom are senior professional-title holders, and qualified translators in a dozen foreign languages, including English, Japanese, French, German, and Russian. It mainly publishes picture albums, wall calendars, and pictures for publicity.