List of newspapers in China

This is a list of newspapers in the People's Republic of China. The number of newspapers in 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% from 2001 to 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

Regional newspapers

Anhui

Beijing

Chongqing

Gansu

Guangdong

Guangxi

Fujian

Guizhou

Hainan

Heilongjiang

Hebei

Henan

Hubei

Hunan

Inner Mongolia

Jiangsu

Jiangxi

Jilin

Liaoning

Shaanxi

Shandong

Shanghai

Newspaper Location First issued Publisher Languages Website Notes
Jiefang Daily (Liberation Daily) Shanghai 1949 Official daily of Shanghai Committee of the Communist Party of China
Shanghai Daily Shanghai 1999 Wenhui-xinmin United Press Group Voice of the Shanghai People's Government
Shanghai Morning Post Shanghai 1999 Jiefang Daily Newspaper Group
Shanghai Post Shanghai
Shanghai Star Shanghai 1992-2006 China Daily Weekly tabloid providing reports on people and issues in Shanghai and neighbouring regions
Shanghai Xinmin Evening News Shanghai 1929 Wenhui-xinmin United Press Group
Oriental Morning Post Shanghai
Wen Hui Bao Shanghai 1938 Not to be confused with Wen Wei Po, a newspaper with the same Chinese name published in Hong Kong
Wenhui Book Review Shanghai 1985 Wenhui-xinmin United Press Group
Xinmin Evening News (Xinmin Wanbao) Shanghai 1929 Wenhui-xinmin United Press Group
China Youth Daily (Youth Daily) Shanghai 1951 Communist Youth League of China

Shanxi

Sichuan

Tianjin

Tibet

Xinjiang

Yunnan

Zhejiang

Special administrative regions

Hong Kong

See Newspapers of Hong Kong

Macau

See Media of Macau

Business news

Information technology news

Sports news

Defunct newspapers

See also

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), 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, retrieved 2009-04-13

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