China Media Group Fuxingmen Office Area, Broadcasting complex in Xicheng District, China.
China Media Group Fuxingmen Office Area is a building of about 50,000 square metres in Xicheng District, Beijing, formerly the China National Radio service building. It stands in the same compound as the National Radio and Television Administration, whose 1958 Central Broadcasting Building is its neighbour. The main structure was completed at the end of 1994 and the building was finished in July 1998.
Construction of the Central People's Broadcasting Station business building began on 15 December 1992, and the main structure was completed by the end of 1994. The building was inaugurated and put into use in July 1998. At 4 a.m. on 26 February 1999, all seven frequencies of Central People's Broadcasting Station finished moving into it, a relocation that set a speed record for broadcasting system moves in mainland China. In March 2018 the station was merged into China Media Group, and the site was renamed the Fuxingmen Office Area.
The building is the former Central People's Broadcasting Station business tower, and its call sign was kept for domestic use after the 2018 merger into China Media Group, while external broadcasts use the name Voice of China. It shares a courtyard with the National Radio and Television Administration in the 1958 Central Broadcasting Building.
The complex stands in Xicheng District at Fuxingmen, on the same walled compound as the National Radio and Television Administration, whose 1958 Central Broadcasting Building shares the yard. The site is an operating media office area, not a visitor attraction, so access to the interior is not open to the public; the compound can be viewed from the surrounding streets.
The building shares a courtyard with the National Radio and Television Administration, housed in the Central Broadcasting Building completed in 1958. When all seven frequencies of China National Radio moved in on 26 February 1999 at 4 a.m., the operation set a speed record for broadcasting system relocations in mainland China.
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