Xinhua News Agency Hong Kong Branch
Cosmo Hotel, where the headquarters of the Hong Kong Branch is located | |
Native name | 新华通讯社香港特别行政区分社有限公司 |
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| Company type | State news agency |
| Founded | January 17, 2000 |
| Headquarters | 381 Queen's Road East, Wan Chai, Hong Kong |
| Owner | Xinhua News Agency |
| Xinhua News Agency Hong Kong Branch | |||||||
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| Simplified Chinese | 新华社香港分社 | ||||||
| Traditional Chinese | 新華社香港分社 | ||||||
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| Xinhua News Agency Hong Kong Special Administrative Region Branch Limited | |||||||
| Simplified Chinese | 新华通讯社香港特别行政区分社有限公司 | ||||||
| Traditional Chinese | 新華通訊社香港特別行政區分社有限公司 | ||||||
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| Asia-Pacific Headquarters of the Xinhua News Agency | |||||||
| Simplified Chinese | 新华通讯社亚太总分社 | ||||||
| Traditional Chinese | 新華通訊社亞太總分社 | ||||||
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Xinhua News Agency Hong Kong Branch is the branch of Xinhua News Agency in Hong Kong. It serves as the Asia-Pacific headquarters of Xinhua News Agency.
During the British Hong Kong, the Xinhua News Agency Hong Kong Branch (Big Xinhua) was a quasi-official representative office of the Central Committee of the Chinese Communist Party and the People's Republic of China (PRC) in Hong Kong. It was called Beijing's de facto embassy and the PRC conducted unofficial diplomatic contacts with the British government through it. The name Xinhua News Agency was a temporary name used because China and Britain could not reach an agreement on the issue of Beijing's official representative office in Hong Kong. The "Editorial Office of the Hong Kong Branch of Xinhua News Agency" (Little Xinhua) was the news agency. After the handover of Hong Kong, in 2000, "Big Xinhua" was renamed to the Hong Kong Liaison Office and "Little Xinhua" was renamed Xinhua News Agency Hong Kong Special Administrative Region Branch Co., Ltd., and continued to engage in news business.