Xinhua News Agency is the official news agency of the People's Republic of China, as well as a world news agency headquartered in Beijing. First founded as the Red China News Agency on November 7, 1931 in Ruijin of Jiangxi Province, today it operates 180 overseas bureaus and 31 branches across China. By establishing a global news information collection network, Xinhua News Agency provides all-day news, photos, graphs, audios and videos to subscribers in eight languages including Chinese, English, French, Russian, Spanish, Arabic, Portuguese and Japanese.