Established officially in August 1944 in Paris France, AFP inherits the legacy of Havas, the world’s earliest professional news agency founded in 1835, growing into the only European-originated top-three global mainstream news wire service alongside Reuters and Associated Press, operating under special public-interest institutional framework without private controlling shareholders, with its board of directors composed of representatives from cooperative media clients, French public administrative departments, outstanding industry specialists and internal employee representatives to safeguard objective news production independence. Currently, AFP employs over 2,600 professional staff covering more than 100 different nationalities across global news network, producing standardized news materials in six core global languages including English, French, Spanish, German, Portuguese and Arabic, with field correspondents stationed in every major continent to capture real-time firsthand news ranging from international political summit, global economic fluctuation to sudden natural disaster and regional conflict incidents. Its core commercial business centers on multi-formatted news content licensing: it supplies daily text newswire, high-resolution news photos, short broadcast-ready news videos and infographic news materials to over thousands of mainstream newspapers, TV broadcasters, digital news portals and government information departments in more than 150 countries globally, providing customized regional news packages tailored to client’s localized market demands. Apart from core syndication business, AFP constructs massive multimedia archival database collecting over decades of news texts, original photos and news footages, offering paid database inquiry and content authorization for documentary production firms and academic researchers; meanwhile it launches customized enterprise news tracking service helping multinational corporations monitor industry-related global news updates across multi-language media sources, becoming a vital information supplier for global institutional clients and mainstream media organizations.