List of newspapers in the People's Republic of China

This is a list of newspapers in the People's Republic of China. 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.

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 (or Guangming 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.

List

National newspapers

• China Daily - English language national daily.
• China Economic Times - daily.
• China Public Security Daily - official public security bureau paper.[1].
• China Youth Daily (Zhongguo Qingnian Bao) - state-run, associated with the Communist Youth League of China.
• Economic Information Daily (Jingji cankao bao).
• The Economic Observer - English edition of the privately-owned weekly newspaper [2].
• Global Times - national daily with two language editions [3] - Chinese and [4] - English.
• Gongren Ribao (Workers' Daily).
• Guangming Daily - conservative tabloid, close to the Communist Party of China.
• Hua Xia Wen Zhai
• Legal Daily (Fazhi Ribao) - supervised by the Ministry of Justice.
• Nongmin Ribao (Farmers' Daily) - agricultural and rural issues.
• PLA Daily (Jiefangjun Bao) - official daily of the People's Liberation Army.
• People's Court Daily
• People's Daily (Renmin Ribao) - voice of the Central People's Government and CPC Central Committee (Communist Party daily).
• Reference News - has the largest circulation in mainland China, published by Xinhua News Agency.

Regional newspapers

Anhui

• Hefei Wanbao

Beijing

• A Liar's Digest - a Beijing-based underground newspaper in mainland China, which pokes fun at the state-controlled media.
• Beijing Chenbao
• Beijing Daily Messenger - prints 180,000 to 200,000 — 60,000 for subscribers; of the 120,000 retail copies, at least one-third is unsold.
• Beijing Entertainment News
• Beijing Evening News - prints 700,000 copies — 450,000 for retail and 250,000 for subscribers. Of the retail copies, 50,000 to 100,000 are unsold.
• Beijing Globe
• Beijing Morning News - prints 180,000 — 130,000 are for subscribers; of the 50,000 retail copies, at least 20,000 are sold by the distribution center director as waste paper.
• Beijing News (Xin Jing Bao) - newly-launched daily with reformist ambitions
• Beijing Portal
• Beijing Ribao
• Beijing Times
• Beijing Today [5] - the English weekly edition of the Beijing Youth Daily
• Beijing Youth Daily [6] - best-selling daily in the capital
• Freezing Point
• Legal Mirror (Fazhi Ribao)
• Qianlong

Chongqing

• China High Tech
• Chongqing Evening News
• Chongqing Globe
• Chongqing News (Chinese, English)
• Chongqing Today
• Qianjiang Evening News
• Yeski

Gansu

• Gansu Daily

Guangdong

• Guangzhou Daily
• Information Times
• Xin Kuai Bao
• 21st Century Business Herald
• Guangzhou Metro Daily
• Panyu Daily
• Southern Weekly
• Yangcheng Evening News
• Southern Metropolis Daily
• Southern Daily
• Guangzhou Morning Post
• Shenzhen Economic Daily
• Shenzhen Evening News
• Shenzhen Daily - One of China's three English language daily newspapers [7]
• Shenzhen Dushi News
• Shenzhen Special Zone Daily
• Shenzhen Youth News
• Zhongshan Daily

Guangxi

• Guangxi Daily

Fujian

• Fujian Ribao
• Common Talk

Guizhou

• Guizhou Business Daily
• Guizhou Daily
• Guizhou Provincial
• Huaxi City Daily

Hainan

• Hainan Daily
• Nanguo Metropolis Daily

Heilongjiang

• Harbin Daily

Hebei

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

Henan

• Central Railway News
• Dahe Newspaper
• Luoyang Daily

Hubei

• Hubei News
• Chutian Metro Daily
• Wuhan Evening News

Hunan

• Changsha Evening News (Chinese, English)
• Hunan Daily
• Sanxiang Metro News
• Xiaoxiang Morning News

Inner Mongolia

• Inner Mongolia Daily
• Northern News Daily
• Hohhot Morning Post
• Hohhot Evening Post
• Northern Family Daily
• Hulunbeir Daily

Jiangsu

• Wuxi Daily - Wuxi
• Xinhua Daily
• Yangtse Evening Post - Nanjing
• Yangzhou Ribao

Jiangxi

• Information Daily
• Jiangnan newspaper
• Jiangxi Daily

Jilin

• China Jilin
• Jilin News
• Today New

Liaoning

• Dalian Daily
• Dalian Evening News
• Liaoning Daily
• Liaoning Farmer
• North Morning News
• Peninsula Morning News
• Peninsula City News
• Shenyang Wanbao
• Times Business Daily

Shaanxi

• Sanqin Daily
• Shaanxi Daily

Shandong

• Dazhong Ribao
• Jinan Ribao
• Jinan Times - daily
• Qilu Evening News - 1.2 million circulation
• Qingdao Daily
• Qingdao Globe
• Qingdao News

Shanghai

• Jiefang Daily (Liberation Daily) - official daily of Shanghai Committee of the Communist Party of China
• Shanghai Daily - voice of the Shanghai People's Government
• Shanghai Morning Post
• Shanghai Post
• Shanghai Star - weekly tabloid providing reports on people and issues in Shanghai and neighbouring regions.
• Shanghai Xinmin Evening News
• Oriental Morning Post
• Wen Hui Bao, published in Shanghai (not confused with Wen Wei Po, a newspaper with the same Chinese name published in Hong Kong
• Wenhui Book Review
• Xinmin Evening News (Xinmin Wanbao)
• China Youth Daily (Youth Daily)

Shanxi

• Shanxi Daily

Sichuan

• Chengdu Economic Daily
• Sichuan Daily
• Trust Post

Tianjin

• Jin Wanbao
• Tianjin Ribao

Tibet

• Lasa Evening News
• Tibet Broadcast
• Tibet Daily

Xinjiang

• Xinjiang Daily
• Xinjiang Newspaper
• Xinjiang Economic Daily^[1]
• Qapqal News, the world's only Xibe-language newspaper^[2]

Yunnan

• Yunnan Daily
• Spring City Evening Post

Zhejiang

• Zhejiang Daily
• Qianjiang Evening News

Special administrative regions

Hong Kong

See Newspapers of Hong Kong

Macau

See Media of Macau

Business news

• China Economic Times (Zhongguo Jingji Shibao) - Chinese financial and economy information.
• National Business Daily - publishes eight pages apiece on domestic and international business news.
• China Business - Business weekly. Published by the Chinese Academy of Social Sciences.
• China Business News - First Chinese business daily, aims "to be the most influential, authoritative and respected financial daily newspaper in China.
• 21st Century Business Herald - Southern Media Group publishes this paper Monday to Friday.
• The Economic Observer - China's leading weekly for economy, politics, and culture. English edition of the privately-owned weekly newspaper [8]
• China Stock News - China's leading newspaper for stock market, provide lots data for access.
• China Financial News - published in 1987, official newspaper of all Chinese major banks.
• Chinese Business View
• International Business Times (HK English)
• Xinhua Business Weekly is an English newsletter published weekly by Xinhua News Agency.

Information technology news

• China Information World - published for 20 years, as their name, offer all IT information.[9]
• PC World - provides IT resources to enterprise, download, IT blog, and other technical journals.[10]
• IT Management - News centre for IT manager, project manager, CIO etc.[11]
• PC Professional China - computer technical discussion zone newspaper, offers buyer guide too.[12]
• China PC News - covers Chinese IT news, consumer news, PC services, software and hardware [13]
• IT Business Information - Provides mainly software solutions to both buyer and seller.[14]
• Programming and Maintenance - covers topics from programming to PC maintenance.[15]

Sports news

• Titan Sports Weekly - China's most successful sports bi-weekly newspaper. It started off as a photocopied football fanzine in the 1990s.
• Soccer News - dedicated for Chinese soccer fans, reports national and international soccer news.
• Nanfang Daily - China sports events by calendar.
• Sports China - cover sports news for every sports events, includes Chinese martial arts.
• Oriental Sports Daily - focus on eastern China's football events.

Defunct newspapers

• Wan guo gong bao - monthly newspaper published by Methodist missionaries from 1868–1907.

See also

• Chinese tabloid
• Category:Chinese-language newspapers (Traditional Chinese)
• Category:Chinese-language newspapers (Simplified Chinese)
• Media in the People's Republic of China
• Communications in the People's Republic of China
• List of Chinese companies
• Lists of magazines
• List of newspapers

References

1. ^ Hathaway, Tim (2007-11-09), "A journalist in China: Tim Hathaway writes about his experience reporting and writing for state-run 'Xinjiang Economic Daily'", AsiaMedia (UCLA Asia Institute), http://www.asiamedia.ucla.edu/article.asp?parentid=81687, retrieved 2009-05-08 
2. ^ 张莉/Zhang Li (2007), "新疆锡伯族新闻事业发展现状/Xinjiang Xibo Peoples' News Undertaking Present Situation", 伊犁师范学院学报/Journal of Ili Normal University (1), ISSN 1009-1076, http://scholar.ilib.cn/A-QCode~yilsfxyxb200701012.html, retrieved 2009-04-13 

External links

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 This article incorporates public domain material from websites or documents of the Library of Congress Country Studies. [16]