Broadly speaking, news websites refer to websites whose main means of survival is news business. Including large national news portals (such as Xinhuanet and People's Daily). ), business portals (Netease, Sina, etc. ), local news portals (Yangtze River, DJI, Dayang, etc. ), and the portals of various industries (Hubei Food Network and China Chemical Network) have also served as news websites of this industry.

The portal initially provided search engines and directory services. Later, due to the increasingly fierce market competition, the portal had to rapidly expand various new business types, hoping to attract and retain Internet users through a wide range of business, so that the portal's business was all-encompassing and became a "department store" or "online supermarket" in the network world.

The news websites we generally talk about are mostly websites sponsored by the central or local governments, relying on news agencies (Xinhuanet relies on Xinhua News Agency) or local daily newspapers and TV stations, with news reports and positive publicity as the main business, and the main source of funds is financial allocation, so the performance pressure is very small.

Xinhuanet and Phoenix belong to news websites, and Sina Netease belongs to portal websites.