Radio in China
China Radio International (CRI), the only national overseas broadcasting station, is beamed to all parts of the world in multiple languages.In 1950, approximately 1 million radio sets existed in China, mostly in bourgeois urban households.[1]: 45 These receptionists organized group listening sessions and also transcribed and distributed written content of radio broadcasts.[4]: 30 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.[5]: 39–40 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.