中国广播民族乐团，原名中央广播电台文工团民族管弦乐队，一九八○年改现名。成立于一九五三年四月，是中国同类型民族乐团中成立最早的团体之一。该团主要任务是为广播、电视提供人民群众喜闻乐见的民族音乐节目，通过广播电视播出和录制唱片为国内外广大听众服务。历任团长张晋德、江纯一、李一鸣、彭修文、王大启……等。
该团的乐队由弓弦乐组、弹拨乐组、吹管乐组、打击乐组（包括一个民歌演唱组）所组成。半世纪以来该团为广播、电视演播了千馀首乐曲，并录制了数以百计的唱片。为了适应民族乐队发展的需要，该团从一九五三年起对各种民族乐器进行收集、整理，并对扬琴、阮、笙、排鼓、马头琴等一些乐器进行了成功的改革。
从一九五七年后，乐团曾先后应邀访问过前苏联、罗马尼亚、南斯拉夫、德意志联邦共和国、义大利、澳大利亚、新西兰、菲律宾、香港等十几个国家和地区。部分演员还访问过朝鲜、美国、加拿大以及南美洲、非洲等十几个国家和地区，为增进中国同世界各国人民的友谊、发展国际间文化交流作出贡献。
该团在不断的艺术实践中，成长了一批音乐专业人才。知名的指挥家、演奏家、演唱家有彭修文、陆青霜、俞良模等。由该团创作、改编的器乐合奏曲《春江花月夜》、《月儿高》、《流水操》、《丰收锣鼓》，笛子独奏曲《牧民新歌》，二胡齐奏曲《喜看麦田千层浪》，已成为该团的保留曲目。
China Broadcasting Chinese Orchestra It was originally an orchestra founded in 1953 under the broadcasting system and changed to the present name in 1980. It was one of the earliest Chinese orchestra in China and its main role was to produce music and recordings for the broadcasting network, for all places in China and overseas.
In about 50 years, the orchestra has broadcasted more than a thousand pieces of work and has produced hundreds of records. From 1953, owing to the need of the development of the orchestra, many successful revolution had been made on instruments such as yangqin, ruan, sheng, paigu, matouqin etc.
Since 1957, it had toured around the world and made great contribution in culturat’exchange and improvement of the friendship bewteen Chinese and people of other countries.
In the past years, the orchestra had brought up many masters in Chinese music such as Peng Xiu-wen, Wang Guo-tong, Yu Liang-mo etc. and also a large number of classical works such as “Moonlight Over the River in Spring”, “The Moon is High”, The Harvest Drums”etc.