New Tang Dynasty Television

Headquartered in New York City, New Tang Dynasty (NTD) Television serves more than 100 million potential viewers in China and around the world.

Founded by Chinese Americans, and rooted in traditional Chinese culture, NTD serves as a unique bridge between the East and the West.

NTD News, the company's flagship program, strives to provide insightful coverage of China with the highest ethical standards of Western journalism.

NTD News broadcasts directly into parts of mainland China via satellite, providing a truthful, uncensored Chinese-language alternative to China's state-run media.

NTD News also provides its global viewers with important news about China and the rest of the world in more than a dozen non-Chinese languages, including English, Spanish, Russian, Japanese, Persian, and Hebrew.

In addition to news, NTD promotes traditional Chinese arts and culture through a wide variety of TV shows and events.

As a 501(c)(3) nonprofit corporation, NTD's New York headquarters (NTDTV.org)—as well as its nonprofit and for-profit affiliate stations around the world—continues to refine all aspects of its programming to meet the needs of its audiences. NTD is funded primarily through by individual donations.

Mission & Background

NTD's mission is to:

• Bring truthful and uncensored information into and out of China

• Promote traditional Chinese culture

• Facilitate mutual understanding between the East and West

NTD seeks to be the world's most trusted authority on news and information about China.

Besides NTD, no major Chinese language television network reports with complete independence on China. The Chinese communist regime has long dictated politically related content for all TV stations inside mainland China. And starting in the 1990s, it began using its economic and political clout to pressure Chinese TV stations outside China to avoid reporting on the most "sensitive" China-related topics.

In 2001, NTD was founded with the goal of reporting on what other Chinese TV networks would not. NTD fills an important void in Chinese language media, boldly investigating topics like abuses of power and human rights violations, and making this information available both inside and outside China.

In 2002, NTD was the first Chinese TV station to report in depth on the Chinese regime's persecution of the Falun Gong spiritual group.

In 2003, NTD reported on the spread of SARS in China a full three weeks before Beijing—and hence Chinese state-run media—acknowledged the outbreak.

NTD continues to report on the Chinese regime's ongoing suppression of Christians, Tibetans, democracy advocates, and other dissidents—as well as other issues affecting Chinese people such as food safety and political corruption.