中国新闻社简称中新社，是由中国新闻界和海内外知名人士于1952年9月14日在北京发起成立的，是中国内地仅有的两家通讯社之一。经过50多年的建设与发展，中新社已具可观的规模。其总社设在北京，在全国23个省、自治区、直辖市和香港、澳门以及美国、法国、日本、加拿大、澳大利亚、泰国、马来西亚等设有分社。联合国教科文组织曾对全世界174家通讯社作出的5个级别的统计中，美联社、路透社、法新社等几家被列为A级，中国新闻社被列为B级。
中新社是亚洲上网最早的中文媒体。于1995年在香港上网。1999年1月1日，中新社北京总社开办中国新闻网，域名为：。
中新网刚一开办，即以其无可比拟的通讯社原创新闻资讯优势脱颖而出，成为众多海内外网络媒体的资讯源泉。中新网秉承中新社"国际视角+亲和力"的报道风格，新闻资讯内容准确、丰富、时效强、文风轻松活泼，受到广大网友、特别是网络、新闻和财经专业人士的欢迎。
目前，中新网开设有新闻中心、首页和国际、台湾、港澳、华人、财经、汽车、房产、IT、教育、健康、文娱、体育、图片、视频、社区、海外华文报摘等频道，并开办了繁体字版和图片库等，提供准确、迅速、多样化的文字、图片和在线视频资讯。特别在新闻方面，中新网动态新闻及时准确，解释性报道角度独特，稿件被国内外网络媒体大量转载。
自创办以来，中新网内容日渐丰富，影响日益扩大。目前，国内知名商业网站均是中新网的客户；在国外，许多中文网站与中新网链接。中新网旗下更有海内外各分社开设的上海、香港、东京、重庆、吉林、福建、江苏、新疆等30多个地方分支网站，向读者提供大量的地方新闻资讯。
The Chinanews online service (Chinanews.com) is the website launched by China News Service (CNS).
CNS was established by Chinese journalists and renowned experts from home and abroad on September 14, 1952. It is one of the only two news agencies in China’s mainland. After 50 years of construction and development, CNS has developed well. With the headquarters based in Beijing, it has branches in 23 provinces, autonomous regions and municipalities in China’s mainland, and in Hong Kong and Macao, as well as in the US, France, Japan, Canada, Australia, Thailand and Malaysia. The UNESCO has ranked 174 news agencies from all over the world into 5 levels, as the Associated Press, Reuters, and AFP are listed in the level A, and CNS is among level B.
As a Chinese-language media, CNS is the pioneer in Asia setting up its Internet portal. The website was launched in Hong Kong in 1995. On January 1, 1999, the official website was launched by the headquarters of CNS in Beijing.
Since its debut, Chinanews immediately stood out with unparalleled advantages in original news by CNS, becoming a news resource for plenty of domestic and overseas web media. In accordance with the style of CNS, Chinanews features "both international view and amiability". Chinanews provides accurate, abundant, timely and lively news and information. It attracts a great number of netizens, especially professionals of network, journalism, finance and economics.
So far, Chinanews consists of the news center, the frontpage, and various channels including world, Taiwan, Hong Kong and Macao, overseas Chinese, finance and economics, auto, estate, IT, education, health, entertainment, sports, photos, videos, community, and selection of overseas Chinese-language articles. In addition, it has established a photo gallery. All these contents provide you with accurate, timely and diverse news, photos and online videos in both traditional and simplified Chinese. Especially, the dynamic online news is timely and accurate, and the in-depth reports are exclusive, which are always cited by domestic and overseas web media.
Chinanews has been enriched gradually since its debut, and the influences have extended to the world. So far, all the well-known commercial websites in China are the clients of Chinanews. Meanwhile, many overseas Chinese websites exchange links with Chinanews. Chinanews also manages more than 30 local websites supported by the CNS branches in Shanghai, Hong Kong, Tokyo, Chongqing, Jilin, Fujian, Jiangsu, Xinjiang and so on, offering plenty of local news and information.
