Radio in China

Republic of China Radio technology first arrived in China in the winter of 1922-1923. At the time, mass media in China was slow or non-existent in many areas, and much of the population was illiterate. The ROC also established a program to place listening stations in rural counties where radio monitors would listen to news and propaganda broadcasts to transcribe news items for printing in local newspapers and posting on public walls or blackboards. In 1950, approximately 1 million radio sets existed in China, mostly in bourgeois urban households. Organized mass listening campaigns developed throughout the 1950s, bringing political news and other programming to an unprecedently large audience in China. By 1959, 9,435 communes and 1,689 counties had wired relay stations, and these linked 4,570,000 wired loudspeakers. VOA opened a bureau in Beijing in 1981. In 1982, Radio Peking and VOA began regular exchanges. == Radio manufacturing ==

In the 1950s and 1960s, Red Star Radios became one of the Four Big Things, important and desirable consumer goods that demonstrated an increase in Chinese standards of living. Radio manufacturing expanded significantly during China's Third Front campaign to develop basic industry and national defense industry in China's rugged interior in case of invasion by the Soviet Union or the United States. In the Third Front regions, radio manufacturing increased by 11,668% percent as a result of the campaign. By Cultural Revolution, battery-powered transistor radios, microphones, mobile public address systems, and loudspeakers had penetrated even remote areas. ==See also==