Started in 1997, publishing under the auspices of both the State Council Information Office provides news and information in 10 languages including Chinese, English, French, German, Japanese, Spanish, Arabic, Russian, Korean and Esperanto. Its users are from over 200 countries. By providing both current news and reference information on China's cultural, historical, business, and political life, CIIC introduces China to the world everyday with accurate up-to-date news, interesting background stories and exclusive reports which provide quick and authoritative information for our readers.

Regular columns include: China, International, Business, Government Culture, Environment, Education, Travel, and many others.

CIIC cooperated with the World Bank in jointly establishing the China Development Gateway in 2002 which is an important part of the Global Development Gateway. This website aims to introduce the Chinese experiences to the world by sharing development initiatives with other countries, creating and servicing such plans for current and future international cooperation and contributing information to aid in poverty alleviation and development promotion.

Chinese Suppliers is an authorized and credible network trading platform. China Suppliers is dedicated to providing professions services. Together with domestic authentication agencies, it helps Chinese enterprises to develop their business globally and build international brands through B2B platform. By the end of 2006 the number of registered users had exceeded 4 million and 40 million pieces of business information had been published. It is the fastest growing e-commerce website in the world.

Invest in China has published over 100, 000 projects from 300 cities which are soliciting investment. It keeps close contacts and partnerships with more than 60 overseas agencies like foreign embassies, chambers of commerce, the World Bank and the United nations Development Programme (UNDP).