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There are over 3,000 radio stations in the People's Republic of China. China National Radio, the nation's official radio station, has eight channels, and broadcasts for a total of over 200 hours per day via satellite. Every province, autonomous region and municipality has local broadcasting stations. China Radio International (CRI), the only national overseas broadcasting station, is beamed to all parts of the world in multiple languages.
History of radio broadcasting
Republic of China
The Republic of China established The Nationalist Government Radio Station in 1928; it was a major mechanism for disseminating ROC propaganda messages.[1]: 57–58
People's Republic of China
In December 1949, the PRC established the Central Broadcasting Station.[2]: 90
In 1950, approximately 1 million radio sets existed in China, mostly in bourgeois urban households.[3]: 45 The People's Republic of China began establishing a radio reception network assigning "radio receptionists" in schools, army units, and factories.[3]: 45 These receptionists organized group listening sessions and also transcribed and distributed written content of radio broadcasts.[3]: 45 Through the practice of rooftop broadcasting, village criers using homemade megaphones would also relay the content of radio broadcasts.[3]: 45 Radio receptionists and rooftop broadcasting remained a significant component of broadcasting practices until wireless broadcasting became widespread in the 1960s and 1970s.[3]: 45
In April 1950, the Central Broadcasting Station's international department (branded as Radio Beijing) began broadcasting for listeners in Vietnam, Thailand, Burma, Indonesia, and in four dialects for overseas Chinese throughout East Asia.[4]: 91
Radio networks grew along with rural collectives in the late 1950s.[5]: 50 By 1959, 9,435 communes and 1,689 counties had wired relay stations, and these linked 4,570,000 wired loudspeakers.[5]: 50
In 1978, China stopped jamming broadcasts from Voice of America (VOA).[6]: 104 VOA opened a bureau in Beijing in 1981.[7] In 1982, Radio Peking and VOA began regular exchanges.[7]
In 1998, the State Administration of Radio, Film, and Television (SARFT) began the Connecting Every Village with Radio and TV Project, which extended radio and television broadcasting to every village in China.[8]: 30
Radio manufacturing
In the 1950s and 1960s, Red Star Radios became one of the Four Big Things, important and desirable consumer goods that demonstrated an increase in Chinese standards of living.[9]: 39–40
Radio manufacturing expanded significantly during China's Third Front campaign to develop basic industry and national defense industry in China's rugged interior in case of invasion by the Soviet Union or the United States.[10]: 4, 219 In the Third Front regions, radio manufacturing increased by 11,668% percent as a result of the campaign.[10]: 219
By Cultural Revolution, battery-powered transistor radios, microphones, mobile public address systems, and loudspeakers had penetrated even remote areas.[5]: 50–51
See also
References
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