CBC NEWS: VANCOUVER Launches Chinese Language Website

CBC News: Vancouver, in association with Radio Canada International (RCI), enhances its news delivery to British Columbia’s Chinese communities with a comprehensive news website in Chinese. The news site brings together the best of CBC’s local, national and international news in simplified and traditional Chinese characters. The site (www.cbc.ca/bc/chinesenews ) features the day’s top news stories with content updated several times daily.

“We are always looking for ways to serve the rich diversity of British Columbia, not only in the content of our news but also in the way we deliver it,” explains regional director for CBC British Columbia Johnny Michel. “While the site includes both national and international news it also makes the high quality local journalism CBC News: Vancouver is known for, more accessible to our Chinese communities than ever before.

According to Statistics Canada’s 2006 census, B.C.’s visible minority population grew 21 per cent between 2001 and 2006 and represents 25 per cent of the province’s population of more than four million. Our Chinese communities are the largest of the visible minorities in B.C., making up 40 per cent of this group. Solutions Research Group data indicates that Canada’s Chinese population has the highest online usage amongst Canadians.

CBC News: Vancouver provides the most complete local coverage of the events that shape Vancouver. Twenty-four hours a day, seven days a week, CBC delivers the most up to date and accurate news and weather on TV, Radio and Online. RCI has broadcast around the world since 1945, increasing awareness of Canadian values internationally, as well as its social, economic and cultural activities with new immigrants to Canada.