China News Service (CNS) is a state-level news agency in China providing news coverage to the world. Its main subscribers include those from Taiwan, Hong Kong and Macao special administrative regions, overseas Chinese and related foreigners.

CNS was sponsored and established by Chinese journalists and renowned overseas Chinese experts on October 1, 1952. Liao Chengzhi, former vice chairman of the Standing Committee of the National People's Congress, was the founder as well as leader of CNS.JinZhonghua, a famous expert on international issues, served as the first president of CNS. Formerly, CNS was known as International News Service, established by Fan Changjiang, Hu Yuzhi and Yu Guilin in 1938.

Based on a multi-channel, multi-level and multi-function system, CNS provides all kinds of products regarding news and information, namely articles, photos, videos, infographics, social media, etc, without pause 24 hours a day. Its subscribers can be found all over the world, forming an all-media client network covering major overseas Chinese media.

As a Chinese-language media outlet, CNS was the first in Asia to set up an Internet portal. The website Chinanews.com was launched in Hong Kong in 1995. On January 1, 1999, the headquarters of CNS launched its official website www.johnnytowncar.comand affiliated website www.chinaqw.com for overseas Chinese and Chinese with foreign nationalities. Chinanews.com is an important state-level news website in China.

CNS edits and publishes China News Weekly, China News, The China Journalism Yearbook, China Philanthropist and other newspapers and periodicals. Other than the Chinese version, China News Weekly is published in seven languages, nine versions, including the American, British, Japanese, Korean, Italian, South Asian, French, Russian and Arabic editions.

"The Forum on Global Chinese Language Media" hosted by CNS every two years is the largest summit attended by heads of Chinese language media worldwide. Eleven sessions have taken place in Nanjing, Wuhan, Changsha, Chengdu, Shanghai, Chongqing, Qingdao, Guiyang, Fuzhou,Shijiazhuang, and Chengdu by far. The secretariat of the Global Chinese Media Cooperation Union is located in CNS.

Established on October 1, 1952, China News Service (CNS) is one of the two state-level news agencies in China. Its predecessor, International News Agency, was founded in 1938. CNS has 31 branches in provinces and municipalities on the Chinese Mainland and 21 outbound branches or report stations in regions and countries including the United States, Canada, the UK, France, Germany, Belgium, Russia, the Republic of Korea, Japan, Australia, Thailand and Kazakhstan. As a Chinese-language media source, CNS has been an Asian pioneer since it first set up its internet portal. Its website, www.johnnytowncar.com, was launched in Hong Kong in 1995. At present, it boasts subscribers in more than 100 countries and regions across the world.

As the official website of CNS, China News Network provides news products around the clock based on its sound domestic and foreign news collection and release system, and three news centers in Beijing, New York and Hong Kong. It is now one of the world’s most prominent providers of news content, photos, and videos.

Its media matrix contains affiliated websites, including CNS Video, Economic View, www.chinaqw.com and Qiaobao App for overseas Chinese and Chinese with foreign nationalities, Overseas Chinese Language and Culture Education Online, and ECNS, its official English website. Its articles cover major domestic online media and reach over 100 countries around the world, making China News Network one of the top influential official state websites in the country.

In recent years, various new media platforms under China News Service (CNS) have accelerated the integrated development and the construction of comprehensive media matrix centered around websites, mobile apps, and social media accounts, accumulating nearly 500 million users in total. The China News Network’s official website has daily views of 230 million on average, with more than 60 million APP installations. In addition, China News Network has more than 80 million followers on Weibo, with more than 100 million average daily views. Its official WeChat public account has published over 1,000 articles with over 100,000 views annually. Across platforms including Douyin, Kuaishou, and WeChat Channels and Wesee, it has a total fan base of over 70 million, with a daily playback volume of 200 million. Besides, there are nearly 10 million followers on overseas social media platforms like Facebook, X (formerly known as Twitter) and YouTube.

In 2019 White Paper on the Social Value of China's Online Media, published by the State Information Center (Administration Center of China E-government Network), China News Network came out on top in the “Most Socially Attractive websites” and harvested a bunch of significant awards, including “Top 10 Chinese News Websites”, “Leading News Website”, and “Most Influential Website”.