HaiPhong Radio and Television is a press agency under the HaiPhong Party Committee, HaiPhong Administration. It performs the press functions and assigned political tasks as informing and disseminating the guidelines, policies and laws of the Party, the State and the city; Contributing to orientating public opinions, meeting the demands for information and recreation of people of all social strata. 

HaiPhong Radio and Television was founded on September 1, 1956 and now runs as a public non-business unit directly under the HaiPhong People's Committee.