中国唱片总公司，是中国规模最大、历史最悠久的国家级音像出版集团。公司总部设在北京。
五十多年来，中国唱片总公司肩负着国家唱片业导向的神圣职责和庄严使命，依托先进的专业技术设备和优秀的艺术技术人才，为700多家文艺团体、4000多位艺术家录制了唱片、录音带、录象带、光盘类节目计53000多片（盒）号，总销量达10亿张（盒），产品销售遍布全国（含港、澳、台地区）。记录和传播了大量优秀的音乐、歌曲、戏曲、曲艺等作品。积累和珍藏了12万唱片模板（母版），包括一批极具历史价值的旷世孤品和艺术典藏。中国唱片总公司主办的《金唱片奖》，是国内行业内颇具影响的奖项，已有百余位艺术成就精湛、社会影响广泛的中外著名艺术家和一批艺术团体获奖，社会各界特别是文化艺术界乃至海外反响热烈。中国唱片总公司与三十多个国家和地区的同业建立了文化交流与合作关系，是第一家加入国际唱片业协会（IFPI）和国际音像档案协会（IASA）的中国音像出版机构。
21世纪，中国唱片总公司锐意改革，为建成实力较强的国家级文化产业集团而阔步前进。
China Record Corporation, also known as CRC, is China's largest and oldest state-level publishing group of audio and video products. CRC is headquartered in Beijing.
For more than 50 years CRC has shouldered the sacred task of guiding China's record industry and by relying on the advanced technical equipment and excellent artistic personnel has recorded over 700 artistic troupes and 4,000 performing artists in audio tapes, video tapes and compact discs. These products include 53,000 titles with the total sale of one billion units. CRC products can be found all over the country including the regions of Hong Kong, Macao and Taiwan. CRC has recorded and distributed quantitative excellent music, songs, traditional operas and local arts, and has accumulated and collected more than 120 thousand record moulds/master tapes with a batch of them being the only existing moulds of high historic values and for classical collection of arts. The Gold Disc Prize issued by CRC is an influential one in the record industry in China. More than one hundred domestically and internationally well-known artists and art organizations have been awarded this Prize for their excellent artistic achievement and vast social influence. This has received warm response from all walks of life especially from the cultural and art circles both at home and abroad. CRC has established good relationships of cultural exchange and cooperation with its counterparts in more than 30 countries and regions. CRC was the first audio and video publishing organization in China to be accepted by the IFPI (International Federation of Phonographic Industry), and the IASA (International Association of Sound Archives).
China Record Corporation is firm to continue the reforms and to stride forward to build itself into a strong state-level cultural group in the 21st century.
