National Radio and Television Administration

National Radio and Television Administration
Simplified Chinese	国家广播电视总局
Traditional Chinese	國家廣播電視總局
Transcriptions Standard Mandarin Hanyu Pinyin Guójiā Guǎngbō Diànshì Zǒngjú Bopomofo ㄍㄨㄛ´ ㄐㄧㄚ ㄍㄨㄤˇ ㄅㄛ ㄉㄧㄢ` ㄕ` ㄗㄨㄥˇ ㄐㄩ´ Gwoyeu Romatzyh guo2 jia1 guang3 bo1 dian4 shi4 zong3 ju2
State Administration of Press, Publication, Radio, Film and Television (2013–2018)
Simplified Chinese	国家新闻出版广电总局
Traditional Chinese	國家新聞出版廣電總局
Transcriptions Standard Mandarin Hanyu Pinyin Guójiā Xīnwén Chūbǎn Guǎngdiàn Zǒngjú Bopomofo ㄍㄨㄛ´ ㄐㄧㄚ ㄒㄧㄣ ㄨㄣ´ ㄔㄨ ㄅㄢˇ ㄍㄨㄤˇ ㄉㄧㄢ` ㄗㄨㄥˇ ㄐㄩ´ Gwoyeu Romatzyh guo2 jia1 xin1 wen2 chu1 ban3 guang3 dian4 zong3 ju2
State Administration of Radio, Film, and Television (1998–2013)
Simplified Chinese	国家广播电影电视总局
Traditional Chinese	國家廣播電影電視總局
Transcriptions Standard Mandarin Hanyu Pinyin Guójiā Guǎngbò Diànyǐng Diànshì Zǒngjú Bopomofo ㄍㄨㄛ´ ㄐㄧㄚ ㄍㄨㄤˇ ㄅㄛ ㄉㄧㄢ` ㄧㄥˇ ㄉㄧㄢ` ㄕ` ㄗㄨㄥˇ ㄐㄩ´ Gwoyeu Romatzyh guo2 jia1 guang3 bo1 dian4 ying3 dian4 shi4 zong3 ju2

The National Radio and Television Administration (NRTA), formerly the State Administration of Radio, Film, and Television (SARFT, 1998–2013) and the State Administration of Press, Publication, Radio, Film and Television (SAPPRFT, 2013–2018), is a ministry-level executive agency directly under the State Council of the People's Republic of China. Its main task is the administration and supervision of state-owned enterprises engaged in the television and radio industries.

It directly controls state-owned enterprises at the national level such as China Central Television, China National Radio, China Radio International, as well as other movie and television studios and others non-business organizations.

History

In 1986 the Ministry of Culture Film Bureau and the Ministry of Radio and Television merged to form the Ministry of Radio, Film and Television. On 25 June 1998 the Ministry of Radio, Film and Television reorganized as the State Administration of Radio, Film and Television. In March 2013 the State Council announced plans to merge State Administration of Radio, Film, and Television with the General Administration of Press and Publication to form the State Administration of Press and Publication, Radio, Film, and Television.

In March 2018, the SAPPRFT was abolished and functions of the movie, press and publication industry regulation is subordinated to the Communist Party of China Central Committee's Publicity Department instead of the State Council.

Primary duties

The official functions of SARFT are:

• Research and development of radio and television publicity and video creation policies and grasp of public opinion; guide radio and television publicity and radio and television writing and to coordinate the planning of their subject matter; Steering Radio Film and Television management system.
• Research and the drafting of the management of Radio Film and Television industry laws and regulations; development of Radio Film and Television management regulations and career development planning; supervision and management of radio and television programs, satellite TV included, and communication to the public through information network of audio-visual programs; responsible for broadcasting radio and TV stations broadcast radio and television programs and is responsible for the content of import management audit.
• Approval above the county level (including county-level) radio and television organizations and film, radio and television programs, television production units in the establishment and revocation; organizations to review broadcast on radio and television movies, dramas and other programming content and quality; distribution and cancellation of filmmaking, release permits and television production, distribution license.
• Management of Radio, Film and Television scientific and technological work, formulate the relevant technical policies and standards to guide application of Radio, Film and Television Systems high-tech research and development applications; study of Radio Film and Television in economic policy.
• According to the state's overall planning and macro-policies and laws and regulations, on the radio and television network dedicated to a specific planning and management; development of radio and television network dedicated specific policies, regulations and technical standards to guide the construction and development work classification to ensure that radio and television programs Safety broadcast; commissioned by the Ministry of Information Industry, the preparation of radio and television-specific bands in the planning, assigning radio and television frequencies (channels) and power and other technical parameters; participate in the development of national information network of the master plan.
• The leadership of China National Radio, China Radio International and China Central Television, its major propaganda coordination and inspection, unified organization and management of the transmission coverage of its programs.
• Study the establishment of Radio, Film and Television system of foreign affairs of the relevant provisions; management and guidance of Radio, Film and Television of foreign and Hong Kong and Macao Special Administrative Region and Taiwan region, exchanges and cooperation.
• Undertake the CPC Central Committee, other matters assigned by the State Council.

Technical details

In its role of providing the physical infrastructure for broadcasting the NRTA plays a similar role in China as TDF Group plays in France, or Crown Castle plays in the US or Australia. It owns and operates, as well as manages many thousands of MW, FM, TV and Shortwave relay transmitters in China (as well as those leased abroad for external broadcasting).

ALLISS deployment

ALLISS antenna seen from underneath

Recently, the SARFT has decided to switch over to using ALLISS technology for international broadcasting in SE and NE Asia.

SARFT's ALLISS deployment

• 2003: China
  • Low Band Modes (HR) : 4/4, 2/4, 4/2, 2/2
  • High Band Modes (HR) : 4/4, 2/4, 4/2, 2/2
  • Band coverage: 5.9 MHz to 26.1 MHz
  • Note that the SARFT did not acquire the highest directivity models of HR 6/4/1 type.
• 2009: Cuba—The SARFT is said to have received a contract from the Chinese Foreign Affairs Department to replicate an ALLISS module in Cuba at an undisclosed location. This is according to Glen Hauser's World of Radio transmission of 25 June 2009.

The ALLISS system is a fully rotatable antenna system for high power shortwave radio broadcasting in the 6 MHz to 26 MHz range. An ALLISS module is a self-contained shortwave relay station that is used for international broadcasting.

ALLISS is a special design case of HRS type antennas. True ALLISS systems have solid radiators (horizontal radiating elements) versus tensioned flexible (open) radiators found with all other variations of ITU HRS type antennas systems. The names is based on a concatenation of two French villages ALLouis and ISSoudun.

CMMB deployment

China Multimedia Mobile Broadcasting (CMMB) is a mobile television and multimedia standard developed and specified in China by the State Administration of Radio, Film, and Television (SARFT). It is based on the Satellite and Terrestrial Interactive Multiservice Infrastructure (STiMi), developed by TiMiTech, a company formed by the Chinese Academy of Broadcasting Science. Announced in October 2006, it has been described as being similar to Europe's DVB-SH standard for digital video broadcast from both satellites and terrestrial 'gap fillers' to handheld devices.

It specifies usage of the 2.6 GHz frequency band and occupies 25 MHz bandwidth within which it provides 25 video and 30 radio channels with some additional data channels. Multiple companies have chips that support CMMB standard - Innofidei who was the first with a solution March 28, 2007, Siano Mobile Silicon(with the SMS118x chip family, which support diversity and have superb performance) and more .

Role in regulating film, television, and internet content

The NRTA issues mandatory guidelines for media content. In 2011 and 2012 (when still SARFT) it limited the number of reality television programs and of historical dramas expressing particular disapproval of programs with a plot twist that involved time travel back to a Chinese historical era. This decree resulted in cancellation of a number of planned films with historical drama plots.

It issued a directive on 30 March 2009 to highlight 31 categories of content prohibited online, including violence, pornography, content which may "incite ethnic discrimination or undermine social stability". Some industry observers believe that the move was designed to stop the spread of parodies or other comments on politically sensitive issues in the runup to the anniversary of the 4 June Tiananmen Square protests.

It issued a directive named "SAPPRFT's Opinions On Strengthening The Programme Management of Satellite Television Channels" in 2011, aiming at over-turning the over-emphasis on purely entertainment programmes in the satellite television channels in China.

Outstanding Domestic Animated Television Productions

For every quarter, the SAPPRFT announces the Outstanding Domestic Animated Television Productions (Chinese: 优秀国产电视动画片), which is given to the works that "persist with correct value guidance" (坚持正确价值导向) and "possess relatively high artistic quality and production standards" (具有较高艺术水准和制作水平). The initial nominees are selected by the province-level administrative departments of broadcast and television, and the China Central Television. Then, the SAPPRFT invites the relevant broadcasting organisations, experts and audience representatives to review the nominees and make the finalist. Once the list is finalised, the television broadcasters in Mainland China, especially nationwide generalist channels and animation and children's channels on satellite, and children's channels on terrestrial television, are recommended to give priority when broadcasting such series.

See also

• List of banned films in China
• Censorship in the People's Republic of China
• Film censorship in China

External links

• New official site (Chinese only)
• Old official site (Chinese only)
• Official site in English via translate.google.com