Radio China International
Radio China International (CRI; Chinese 中国 国际 广播 电台 , Pinyin Zhōngguó guójì guǎngbō diàntái , short 国际台 , Guójì tái ), formerly Radio Peking , is the state foreign broadcaster of the People's Republic of China . The abbreviation CRI comes from the English name China Radio International . CRI operates the most extensive overseas service in Asia . This affects both the number of broadcast hours and the number of languages in which broadcasts are made. The country code of the International Telecommunication Union (ITU) for the People's Republic of China is CHN.
history
Radio China International began broadcasting on December 3, 1941. Domestic events, assessments of world politics from a Chinese perspective, language courses and intercultural understanding are the main focuses of the programs. The station broadcasts its programs in standard Chinese ( Putonghua ), four Chinese dialects, languages of five Chinese minorities and 51 foreign languages , including English and German (since April 15, 1960 ).
A few months after broadcasting in German had started, the station received support from a team of several experts from the GDR . After just a few months, however, problems arose against the background of the Sino-Soviet quarrel . The Germans were accused of deliberately falsifying the April 1960 revision of the article "Long live Leninism" from the Hongqi magazine (Die Rote Fahne) and two other articles (by Lu Dingyi and the editors of the People's Daily ). Shortly thereafter, the Soviet Union , of which the GDR was an ally , withdrew all advisors from China, and the Germans also left China except for one person. Later a German doctor who had taken on Chinese citizenship, then an Austrian and later a member of the West German KPD, was appointed to work on the station.
In the 1990s there was an exchange program with Deutsche Welle . Even today, Radio China International employs several foreign experts with German mother tongue.
In the 2010s, RCI increasingly withdrew from linear radio. Less frequently used language services were reduced to a pure text offer. Others are no longer broadcast terrestrially, but only offered on demand or as a podcast .
Transmission technology
The station owns over 50 shortwave transmitters in China and uses a relay station in Mali . Further transmission systems were available in Russia , France , Spain and Albania within the framework of cooperation agreements with other transmission companies.
Web links
- China Radio International (German)
- CRI website (Chinese)
Individual evidence
- ^ A b Kai Ludwig: Radio News: China Radio International from Mali. RBB Radio Eins, February 29, 2020, accessed on March 1, 2020 .
Coordinates: 39 ° 54 ′ 19 ″ N , 116 ° 13 ′ 38 ″ E