China Today (Chinese: 今日中国; pinyin: jīnrì Zhōngguó), until 1990 titled China Reconstructs (Chinese: 中国建设; pinyin: Zhōngguó jiànshè), is a monthly magazine founded in 1952 [1] by Soong Ching-ling in association with Israel Epstein.

The editors usually showcase what they characterize as the growing modernization and development which has happened in China since 1949.

[5] The novelist, playwright and translator Gao Xingjian, who received the Nobel Prize in Literature in 2000, worked in the magazine as the chief of its French edition from 1975 to 1977.

The actor, translator and politician Ying Ruocheng briefly worked for the English edition of the magazine in the 1970s.

He went on to serve as China's vice minister of culture in the 1980s and played a supporting role in the 1987 Oscar-winning film The Last Emperor.