Editing Color television (section)

====China====
The People's Republic of China began plans and early testing for color TV as early as 1960, but were quickly cancelled.<ref name="cn_early_color_tv_research">{{cite book |author1=中国电子视像行业协会 |author2=全子一 |title=中国彩电工业发展回顾 |date=March 2010 |publisher=电子工业出版社 |location=北京 |isbn=978-7-121-07439-4 |pages=86–87 |language=zh-cn |chapter=回顾篇 • 一 • 中国广播电视产业发展历史回顾 |url=http://www.wenqujingdian.com/Public/editor/attached/file/20180724/20180724213349_75168.pdf |access-date=18 January 2024 |archive-date=19 July 2023 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230719215129/http://www.wenqujingdian.com/Public/editor/attached/file/20180724/20180724213349_75168.pdf |url-status=dead }}</ref>

China started testing again in 1970 and adopted [[PAL]] the next year. <ref name="uestc_weibo">{{cite web |title=咱成电那些事儿 {{pipe}} 彩电攻关大会战 |url=https://weibo.com/p/1001603720671371914275 |access-date=18 July 2023}}</ref><ref>{{cite book |author1=中国电子视像行业协会 |author2=武世鹏 |author3=李倜 |title=中国彩电工业发展回顾 |date=March 2010 |publisher=电子工业出版社 |location=北京 |isbn=978-7-121-07439-4 |page=139 |language=zh-cn |chapter=回顾篇 • 二 • 中国广播电视设备的发展历程 |url=http://www.wenqujingdian.com/Public/editor/attached/file/20180724/20180724213349_75168.pdf |access-date=18 January 2024 |archive-date=19 July 2023 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230719215129/http://www.wenqujingdian.com/Public/editor/attached/file/20180724/20180724213349_75168.pdf |url-status=dead }}</ref><ref>{{cite book |author1=中国电子视像行业协会 |title=中国彩电工业发展回顾 |date=March 2010 |publisher=电子工业出版社 |location=北京 |isbn=978-7-121-07439-4 |page=532 |language=zh-cn |chapter=中国电视产业发展大事记 |url=http://www.wenqujingdian.com/Public/editor/attached/file/20180724/20180724213349_75168.pdf |access-date=18 January 2024 |archive-date=19 July 2023 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230719215129/http://www.wenqujingdian.com/Public/editor/attached/file/20180724/20180724213349_75168.pdf |url-status=dead }}</ref> 
Regular full-time color broadcasts on what is now [[CCTV-2]] since October 1973, and full-time color transmissions for the CCTV's then-two channels since July 1977.

The following provinces and areas of China introduced color television by the years as stated:

* Beijing (1973)
* Shanghai (1974)
* Guangdong (1976)
* Jilin (1977)
* Fujian and Hainan (1978)
* Inner Mongolia (1979)
* Ningxia (1980)
* Anhui, Chongqing, Gansu, Heilionjiang, Hunan, Jiangxi, Shandong and Shanxi (1981)
* Xinjiang (1982, peripheral in 1984) <ref>{{cite web |url=https://finance.sina.cn/sa/2011-08-13/detail-ikftssan8053630.d.html?from=wap |website=Sina Finance |access-date=5 September 2024 |language=Chinese |date=August 13, 2011 |title=新疆少数民族语言广播电视在发展中不断壮大 }}</ref><ref>{{cite journal |last1=郭 |first1=镇之 |title=中国电视大事记(1955—1978) |journal=新闻研究资料 |date=1989-05-01 |volume=1989 |issue=2 |page=182 |language=zh-cn |issn=1005-2577}}</ref>
* Henan (1983)