Sputnik News Agency Launches Chinese Multimedia Service

MOSCOW, December 25 (Sputnik) – Sputnik Multimedia Group launched on Thursday a Chinese-language multimedia service, combining website sputniknews.cn and online radio service.

The new Sputnik website is the source of an alternative view on events and breaking news for the Chinese-speaking audience. Moscow and Beijing editorial teams produce content for the service. The website is not only a news source, but it can also serve as a platform for business cooperation between Russia and China.

"China is extremely interested in Russia-related stories, as well as current events and reliable information," head of Sputnik China multimedia hub Alexei Efimov said. "Experts, officials, entrepreneurs, mass media and the common people – everybody is interested in what is happening in Russia, the Russian point of view on global events, and its economic situation. Russia and China are neighboring countries and partners that need up-to-date and reliable information about each other."

Sputnik's Chinese website provides information about the most important events in Russia, as well as the Russian standpoint on the major events around the world. The service will also provide the opinions of the prominent Russian and Chinese researchers and experts.

The website's staff will tailor the content in accordance with the Chinese audience's interests around the world. The two editorial teams in Moscow and Beijing complete each other and enjoy an immediate access to both Chinese and Russian-based experts, as well as the network of Sputnik reporters in more than 50 countries.

Sputnik Chinese News Service, launched on December 1, 2014, will also contribute to the content of sputniknews.cn. The newswire focuses on the foreign policy of Russia and China, and the country's bilateral strategic and economic cooperation in the industrial, energy, finance, construction, trade, space, military and technology sectors.

The Sputnik multimedia group is a new brand of a news agency and radio with multimedia hubs in dozens of countries. It targets foreign audiences via its main website sputniknews.com, localized websites in 30 languages, analog and digital radio services, mobile apps and social networks. Sputnik News Service wire is aimed at professionals, with stories in English, Arabic, Spanish and Chinese available round the clock.