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The Xinhua website was established on 7 November 1997, and named the Xinhua News Agency Website with the URL: www.xinhua.org. In March 2000, it was renamed Xinhuanet. In July 2000, Xinhua Network Co., Ltd. was established and Xinhuanet used the new domain name www.xinhuanet.com. On 12 December 2000, Xinhuanet was approved to engage in news publishing business. On 25 August 2002, the second working floor of the Beijing Xidan Gaodeng Building was officially put into use. The total area of the website has reached more than 4,300 square meters, making it the largest Internet news publishing service platform of the Chinese Communist Party (CCP). In 2012, Xinhua launched a Uyghur language website.
In June 2026, Xinhuanet filed plans to invest over CN¥1.1 billion into a project named "Xinhua Yudian", which is "an intelligent agent for learning, researching, and disseminating Xi Jinping Thought on Socialism with Chinese Characteristics for a New Era". it will be focused on "spreading the positive voice" and provide users on information on current affairs and political news content to help them cope with information overload and "a dilemma of trust in distinguishing truth from falsehood".
From Wikipedia’s article on Xinhuanet, shared under CC BY-SA 4.0.4