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Xinhua News

Last Loaded on Web: Wednesday, May 01, 2013

Last Update To Bluesheet: May 12, 2009

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File Description Dialog File Data Special Features Sample Record Sort
Subject Coverage Database Content DIALINDEX/OneSearch Categories Basic Index Rank
Tips Document Types Indexed Contact Additional Indexes Predefined Format Options
Print Counterparts Geographic Coverage Terms and Conditions Limit Rates


File Description [top]

Xinhua News is the state news agency of the People's Republic of China. It provides reports from over 135 bureaus worldwide on political, economic, and international issues affecting Asia and the Pacific Rim. The Xinhua state news agency provides news from 3 sources: 1) the Xinhua News Agency offering real time coverage of critical worldwide political, social, economic, corporate, and sports news aimed an international audience; 2) Xinhua News Agency Economic News, providing Asian economic indices and investment opportunities, economic data releases and business sector announcements that affect regional investment decisions; and 3) Xinhua News Agency Spanish, reporting on domestic and international breaking news and critical events.

Xinhua News is contained in two databases: Files 618 and 818. File 618 contains current data beginning in June 1999. File 818 contains archive data spanning from July 1996 through May 1999. OneSearch/DIALINDEX category XINHUA may be used to begin both files simultaneously; i.e., BEGIN XINHUA.



Tips [top]

USE FILES 618 AND 818

to find information on industries and markets in China.

USE XINHUA

to search Files 618 and 818 simultaneously in OneSearch or DIALINDEX

     BEGIN XINHUA      BEGIN 411; SF XINHUA

USE STANDARDIZED INFOSORT TERMS

(in File 618) to search Company Names (/CO, CO=), Geographic Names (/GN, GN=), Event Names (/DE, EN=), or Industry Names (/PN, PN=).



Subject Coverage [top]

Subjects covered by Xinhua News Agency include:

  • Agriculture
  • Culture
  • Economy
  • Sports
  • Trade


Print Counterparts [top]

  • None


Dialog File Data [top]

Dates Covered: June 1999 to present (File 618)
July 1996 to May 1999 (File 818)
File Size: 2,056,849 records as of May 2009 (File 618)
246,300 records (File 818)
Update Frequency: Multiple times per day (File 618)
Closed (File 818)


Database Content [top]

  • Complete Text Records


Document Types Indexed [top]

  • Newswires


Geographic Coverage [top]

  • International


Geographic Restrictions [top]

  • None


Special Features [top]

  • ERA Available
  • Graduate Education Program
  • KWIC and HILIGHT Available
  • DIALOG Alert Available
  • Remove Duplicates (RD, ID) Available
  • CURRENT Feature Available


DialIndex/OneSearch Categories [top]

ACRONYM CATEGORY NAME
ASIANEWS Asia/Pacific News
FIRST Continuously Updated News Files
GENERALN General News Files
INTLNEWS Global News English-Language Sources
NEWSFILE News, Archival
NEWSWIRE Newswires
TODAYSNE Today's News


Contact [top]

Xinhua News is provided by Comtex News Network. Questions concerning file content should be directed to:

Comtex News Network
625 N. Washington Street, Suite 301
Alexandria, VA 22314

Telephone: 703-797-8135
Fax: 703-820-2005


Terms and Conditions [top]

XINHUA News is copyrighted by XINHUA News Agency via Comtex

For Dialog's Redistribution and Archive Policy, enter HELP ERA online.


Dialog Standard Terms & Conditions apply.


SAMPLE RECORD FROM FILE 618 [top]

    DIALOG(R)File 618:Xinhua News 
    (c) 1999 Xinhua News via Comtex. All rts. reserv. 
     
    00017058  19990625176H0105  (THIS IS THE FULLTEXT) 
  /TI  China to Host E-Commerce Exposition in September 
  JN=  Xinhua News 
  DY=,MO=,PD=,PY=  Friday, June 25, 1999  07:24 EDT 
  JC=,LA=,RT=,DT=  JOURNAL CODE:  XN  LANGUAGE:  ENGLISH  RECORD TYPE:  FULLTEXT  DOCUMENT TYPE: 
      NEWSWIRE 
    WORD COUNT: 323 
     
    TEXT: 
  /LP,/TX   BEIJING  (June   25 ) XINHUA  - An exposition focusing on the burgeoning 
    electronic commerce and communications sector is to be staged for the 
    first time ever in the Chinese capital from September 6 to 9. 
     
    The Ministry of Foreign Trade and Economic Cooperation (MOFTEC) and the 
    Ministry of Information Industry (MII) are the two organizers of the 
    E-Commerce Expo '99, which will feature the development of China's 
    E-Commerce technologies and applications. 
     
  /TX  The exposition will demonstrate China's progress in e-commerce, 
    e-payment, computer security, and host about 20 technical seminars. 
    MOFTEC minister Shi Guangsheng heads the organizing committee, and 
    vice-minister Chen Xinhua and MII vice-minister Lu Xinkui will assist. 
     
    The organizing committee will also comprise of ministerial- level 
    officials from China's most important administrations for economy and 
    technology, including the State Development Planning Commission, the 
    State Economic and Trade Commission, the Science and Technology 
    Ministry, China's central bank, the General Administration of Customs, 
    the Chinese Academy of Sciences, and the State Tax Bureau. 
     
    The government has vowed to transform the national economy's 
    information capabilities by making greater use of e-commerce. Last 
    year, MOFTEC decided to start using computer networks to administrate 
    China's foreign trade. It advised all import and export enterprises 
    that they have to apply for trade licenses via the computer network by 
    the year 2000. 
     
    In a project called "government-online", China plans to get four-fifths 
    of the government administrations onto the Internet in two years. 
     
    It will be the first time that so many top Chinese government 
    administrations have taken part in an expo focusing on e-commerce. 
    Several world famous companies have already confirmed that they will be 
    present at the September exposition. These included the Microsoft Corp., 
    IBM, Intel, HP, Sun Microsystems, Compaq, Kodak and NEC. Shenzhen 
    Huawei and other big domestic information organizations will also take 
    part. 
     
    Meanwhile, the exposition has also attracted the participation of trade 
    organizations in Singapore and Hong Kong.  Enditem 25/06/99 11:25 GMT 
     
         Copyright (c) 1999 Xinhua News. All rights reserved. 
     
  /CO,CO=  COMPANY NAMES:  MICROSOFT CORP ; TRADE COMMISSION ; SUN MICROSYSTEMS INC 
  /GN,GN=  GEOGRAPHIC NAMES:  CHINA ; ASIA ; CENTRAL ASIA ; FAR EAST 
  /PN,PN=  INDUSTRY NAMES:  ELECTRONIC COMMERCE ; FOREIGN TRADE ; POLITICAL AND PUBLIC 
     AFFAIRS ; COMMUNICATIONS TECHNOLOGIES ; ECONOMIC INDICATORS ; INTERNATIONAL 
     ECONOMIC RELATIONS ; INTERNATIONAL ISSUES 
  /DE,EN=  EVENT NAMES:  FOREIGN TRADE AND PAYMENTS ; GOVERNMENT ; INTERNATIONAL ISSUES 
      ; POLITICAL AND PUBLIC AFFAIRS ; TECHNOLOGY DEVELOPMENT 


SAMPLE RECORD FROM FILE 818 [top]

    DIALOG(R)File 818: Xinhua News Agency 
    (c) 1999 Xinhua via Comtex. All rts. reserv. 
     
    00100323        Supplier Number:  290h0278    (THIS IS THE Fulltext) 
  /TI  Guangdong's 100 Billion US Dollar Investment Drive 
  JN=  Xinhua News Agency 
  PD=, PY=  Oct. 16, 1996  22:19 E.T. 
  DT=, RT=, LA=  DOCUMENT TYPE: Newswire   RECORD TYPE: Fulltext    LANGUAGE: English 
    WORD COUNT:        192 
    TEXT: 
  /LP, /TX   GUANGZHOU (Oct. 17) XINHUA - A decade-long plan to attract 100 
    billion US dollars in overseas investment has been launched by south 
    China's Guangdong Province. 
  /TX       Guangdong wants to encourage more overseas companies to invest 
    money in comprehensive agricultural development projects and export 
    -oriented agricultural projects in the years to come. 
         The province will also work harder to attract more overseas 
    investors, and increase overseas investment in basic facilities, 
    basic industries, capital- and technology-intensive projects, as 
    well as in hi-tech projects. 
         According to local officials, in the coming 10 years, the 
    province plans to make a use of 10 billion US dollars of overseas 
    capital each year. 
         Tang Bingquan, deputy governor of the province, said that the 
    province will strengthen its macro guidance and management over the 
    use of overseas funds, while trying hard to create a sound 
    investment environment to attract more trans-national companies, 
    consortiums and major trading firms, to start businesses in 
    Guangdong. 
         According to statistics, up to June this year, the province had 
    made an actual use of 59.1 billion US dollars of overseas 
    investment. 
         The province has established economic cooperation ties with 
    industrial and commercial communities and financial organizations in 
    more than 70 countries and regions. 
     
  /DE, CN=  COUNTRY NAMES:   CHINA 
  /DE, IN=  INDUSTRY NAMES:  FINANCE 


BASIC INDEX [top]

SEARCH
SUFFIX		 DISPLAY
CODE		 FIELD NAME
 INDEXING
 SELECT EXAMPLES
None None All Basic Index Fields Word S ELECTRONIC(W)COMMERCE
/CO CO Company Name1,2,4 Word S MICROSOFT/CO
/DE DE Descriptor2,3 Word
& Phrase		 S TECHNOLOGY(W)DEVELOPMENT/DE
S INTERNATIONAL ISSUES/DE
/GN GN Geographic Name1,2,4 Word S CHINA/GN
/LP LP Lead Paragraph Word S MOFTEC/LP
/PN PN Industry Name1,2,4 Word S COMMUNICATIONS/PN
/TI TI Title Word S E(W)COMMERCE(W)EXPOSITION/TI
/TX TX Text Word S GOVERNMENT(W)ONLINE/TX

1 Searchable in the Basic Index and in the Additional Indexes.

2 Contains INFOSORT terms (see HELP INFOSORT).

3 Also /DF.

4 Available only in File 618.


ADDITIONAL INDEXES [top]

SEARCH
PREFIX		 DISPLAY
CODE		 FIELD NAME
 INDEXING
 SELECT EXAMPLES
AA= AA Supplier Accession Number Phrase S AA=IAAAEFAE0992A11D88BA29?
None AZ DIALOG Accession Number
CN= CN Country Name5 Phrase S CN=SRI LANKA
CO= CO Company Name1,2,4 Phrase S CO=SUN MICROSYSTEMS?
DL= DL Dateline4 Word
& Phrase		 S DL=BEIJING
S DL=HONG KONG?
DT= DT Document Type Phrase S DT=NEWSWIRE
DY= DY Publication Day4 Phrase S DY=FRIDAY
EN= EN Event Name2,4 Phrase S EN=FOREIGN TRADE?
GN= GN Geographic Name2,4 Phrase S GN=CENTRAL ASIA
IN= IN Industry Name5 Phrase S IN=FINANCE
JC= JC Journal Code4 Phrase S JC=XN
JN= JN Journal Name Phrase S JN=XINHUA NEWS?
LA= LA Language Phrase S LA=ENGLISH
PD= PD Publication Date Phrase S PD=19990625
PN= PN Industry Name1,2,4 Phrase S PN=ELECTRONIC COMMERCE
PY= PY Publication Year Phrase S PY=1999
RT= RT Record Type Phrase S RT=FULLTEXT
None SO Source Information
UD= None Update Phrase S UD=9999
None WD Word Count

5 Available only in File 818.


LIMIT [top]

SUFFIX FIELD NAME EXAMPLES
/LONG Word Count of 1,000 words or more S S2/LONG
/SHORT Word Count of less than 1,000 words S S3/SHORT
/YYYY Publication Year S S2/1999


SORT [top]

SORTABLE FIELDS EXAMPLES
AA, JN, PD, PY, TI SORT S5/ALL/PD


RANK [top]

RANK FIELDS EXAMPLES
All phrase- and numeric-indexed fields in the Additional Indexes can be ranked. RANK AU S3


USER-DEFINED FORMAT OPTIONS [top]

User-defined formats may be specified using the display codes indicated in the Search Options tables. TYPE S4/TI,PD/1-5


PREDEFINED FORMAT OPTIONS [top]

NO.
 DIALOGWEB
FORMAT		 RECORD CONTENT
1 -- DIALOG Accession Number
2 -- Bibliographic Citation, Indexing, and Word Count
3 Medium Bibliographic Citation and Word Count
4 -- Bibliographic Citation, Lead Paragraph, and Word Count
5 -- Bibliographic Citation, Indexing, Lead Paragraph, and Word Count
6 Short Title, Publication Date, and Word Count
7 Long Bibliographic Citation, Text, and Word Count
8 Free Title, Publication Date, Word Count, and Indexing
9 Full Full Record
K -- KWIC (Key Word In Context) displays a window of text; may be used alone or with other formats


DIRECT RECORD ACCESS [top]

FIELD NAME EXAMPLES
DIALOG Accession Number TYPE 00100029/9
PRINT 00100130/9


Rates [top]

Rates For File: Xinhua News (June 1999-present)[618]
Cost per DialUnit:                 $1.38
Cost per minute:                   $0.97
Rank Elements                      $0.00
ALERT (default)                    $4.75
ALERT (Monthly)                *  $28.00
ALERT (Biweekly/twice a month) *  $21.00
ALERT (Weekly)                    $16.00
ALERT (Daily)                      $4.75
ALERT (Calendar weekly)        *  $16.00
ALERT (Intraday)                   $4.75
* = custom scheduled Alerts only
ALERT Number of included prints        0

Format    Types   Prints
     1    $0.00    $0.00
     2    $2.00    $2.00
     3    $2.00    $2.00
     4    $2.75    $2.75
     5    $2.75    $2.75
     6    $0.00    $0.00
     7    $4.50    $4.50
     8    $0.00    $0.00
     9    $4.50    $4.50
KWIC95    $0.00       NA
KWIC96    $0.00       NA

REDIST/COPY Multiplier Table:

      Range      Multiplier
        1-2       1.00
       3-25       1.50
     26-100       3.00
    101-200       4.00
    201-500       6.00
   501-1000       8.00
 1001 or more    10.00

ARCHIVE Multiplier Table:

      Range      Multiplier
       1-25       1.50
     26-200       3.00
    201-500       6.00
   501-1000       8.00
 1001 or more    10.00

Rates For File: Xinhua News (1996-May 1999)[818]
Cost per DialUnit:                 $1.38
Cost per minute:                   $0.97
Rank Elements                      $0.00

Format    Types   Prints
     1    $0.00    $0.00
     2    $2.00    $2.00
     3    $2.00    $2.00
     4    $2.75    $2.75
     5    $2.75    $2.75
     6    $0.00    $0.00
     7    $4.50    $4.50
     8    $0.00    $0.00
     9    $5.00    $5.00
KWIC95    $0.00       NA
KWIC96    $0.00       NA

REDIST/COPY Multiplier Table:

      Range      Multiplier
        1-2       1.00
       3-25       1.50
     26-100       3.00
    101-200       4.00
    201-500       6.00
   501-1000       8.00
 1001 or more    10.00

ARCHIVE Multiplier Table:

      Range      Multiplier
       1-25       1.50
     26-200       3.00
    201-500       6.00
   501-1000       8.00
 1001 or more    10.00
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