XinhuaNet Co., Ltd. engages in the operation of a news website. It releases news items in different languages such as Chinese, English, French, Spanish, Russian, Arabic, Japanese and Tibetan. The company also operates through multimedia communication means such as texts, photos, graphics, audio messages, video, blogs, podcast, microblog, short messages and cell phone news. It also launches and operates a number of government-run websites such as the Chinese government website, public security website, Chinese civilization website, state major technology and equipment website and the ASEAN-China Center. The company was founded on November 7, 1997 and is headquartered in Beijing, China.