Newspapers of the People's Republic of China

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The number of newspapers in mainland China has increased from 42—virtually all Communist Party papers—in 1968 to 382 in 1980 and more than 2,200 today. In 2006, China was the largest market for daily newspapers, with 96.6m copies sold daily, followed by India with 78.7m; Japan with 69.7m; the US with 53.3m; and Germany with 21.5m. China newspaper advertisement revenues increased by 128% over five years (2001-2006).

Between 1950 and 2000, the number of Chinese newspapers increased nearly ten-fold. In 2004, over 400 kinds of daily newspapers were published in China, their circulation reaching 80 million, the highest figure of any country in the world. Targeted at different reader groups, newspaper formats are becoming increasingly diverse. Recent years have seen an important trend of newspaper reorganization. To date, 39 newspaper groups have been established, such as Beijing Daily Newspaper Group, Wenhui Xinmin Associated Newspaper Group and Guangzhou Daily Newspaper Group.

In 2003, trans-regional cooperation among the print media became a new trend. New Beijing Newspaper, invested and run by Guangming Daily Newspaper Group and Nanfang Daily Newspaper Group, was the first to receive formal approval from the Chinese government to publish trans-regionally. Also Orient-Observation Weekly came out in Shanghai, its largest shareholder being the Beijing-based Xinhua News Agency.

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[edit] History

In 1987 China had two news agencies, the Xinhua News Agency and the China News Service (Zhongguo Xinwenshe). Xinhua was the major source of news and photographs for central and local newspapers. The party's newspapers People's Daily and Enlightenment Daily, and the People's Liberation Army's PLA Daily continued to have the largest circulation.

In addition to these major party and army organs, most professional and scientific organizations published newspapers or journals containing specialized information in fields as varied as astronomy and entomology.

Local morning and evening newspapers concentrating on news and feature stories about local people and events were extremely popular, selling out each day shortly after they arrived at the newsstands. In June 1981 the English-language China Daily began publication. This newspaper, which was provided for foreigners living or traveling in China but which also was read by a large number of Chinese literate in English, offered international news and sports from the major foreign wire services as well as interesting domestic news and feature articles.

Reference News, an official news organ that carried foreign news items in Chinese translation, was available to cadres and their families. In 1980 it enjoyed a circulation of 11 million, but, with the subsequent proliferation of other news sources, its circulation dropped to 4 million in 1985, causing the subscription policy to be changed to make it available to all Chinese. Another source of foreign reporting was Reference Information (Cankao Ziliao), a more restricted Chinese reprint of foreign reportage available only to middle- and upper-level cadres. Both of these publications often included foreign reports critical of China.

[edit] List

[edit] National newspapers

[edit] Regional newspapers

[edit] Anhui

[edit] Beijing

[edit] Chongqing

[edit] Gansu

[edit] Guangdong

[edit] Guangxi

[edit] Fujian

[edit] Guizhou

[edit] Heilongjiang

[edit] Hebei

  • Hebei Daily (CPC official paper)
  • Yanzhao Metropolis Daily (tabloid convering Hebei and sold in 11 cities around Hebei Province)
  • Shijiazhuang Daily (CPC offical paper)
  • Yanzhao Evening Post (tabloid covering Shijiazhuang, the capital of Hebei)
  • Hebei Youth Daily (tabloid covering Shijiazhuang, operated by Beijing Youth Daily)

[edit] Henan

[edit] Hubei

[edit] Hunan

[edit] Inner Mongolia

[edit] Jiangsu

[edit] Jiangxi

[edit] Jilin

[edit] Liaoning

[edit] Shaanxi

[edit] Shandong

[edit] Shanghai

[edit] Shanxi

[edit] Sichuan

[edit] Tianjin

[edit] Tibet

[edit] Xinjiang

[edit] Yunnan

[edit] Zhejiang

[edit] Special administrative regions

[edit] Hong Kong

See Newspapers of Hong Kong

[edit] Macau

See Media of Macau

[edit] Business news

[edit] Information technology news

[edit] Sports news

[edit] Defunct newspapers

[edit] See also

[edit] References

This article contains material from the Library of Congress Country Studies, which are United States government publications in the public domain. [12]

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