List of newspapers in the People's Republic of China
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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
Xinhua News Agency
The Xinhua News Agency is the official press agency of the government of the People's Republic of China and the biggest center for collecting information and press conferences in the PRC. It is the largest news agency in the PRC, ahead of the China News Service...

.

History

In 1987 China had two news agencies, the Xinhua News Agency
Xinhua News Agency
The Xinhua News Agency is the official press agency of the government of the People's Republic of China and the biggest center for collecting information and press conferences in the PRC. It is the largest news agency in the PRC, ahead of the China News Service...

 and the China News Service
China News Service
The China News Service is the second largest state-owned news agency in the People's Republic of China, after the Xinhua News Agency. It serves mainly overseas Chinese and residents of Hong Kong, Macau, and Taiwan....

 (Zhongguo Xinwenshe). Xinhua was the major source of news and photographs for central and local newspapers. The party's newspapers People's Daily
People's Daily
The People's Daily is a daily newspaper in the People's Republic of China. The paper is an organ of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of China , published worldwide with a circulation of 3 to 4 million. In addition to its main Chinese-language edition, it has editions in English,...

and Enlightenment Daily
Guangming Daily (China)
The Guangming Daily was launched on June 16, 1949 by the China Democratic League, and is a nationwide comprehensive newspaper based in Beijing. Its sponsorship was shifted to various democratic parties in China and the China Federation of Industry and Commerce in 1953...

(or Guangming Daily), and the People's Liberation Army's PLA Daily
PLA Daily
PLA Daily is China-based media outlet for the People's Liberation Army of the People's Republic of China.It covers news stories relating to the PLA and other military affairs...

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
Astronomy
Astronomy is a natural science that deals with the study of celestial objects and phenomena that originate outside the atmosphere of Earth...

 and entomology
Entomology
Entomology is the scientific study of insects, a branch of arthropodology...

.

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
China Daily
The China Daily is an English language daily newspaper published in the People's Republic of China.- Overview :China Daily was established in June 1981 and has the widest print circulation of any English-language newspaper in the country...

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
Reference News
Reference News , first published on November 7, 1931, is a newspaper daily which has the largest circulation in mainland China with 3 million. It is published by Xinhua News Agency...

, 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.

National newspapers

  • China Daily
    China Daily
    The China Daily is an English language daily newspaper published in the People's Republic of China.- Overview :China Daily was established in June 1981 and has the widest print circulation of any English-language newspaper in the country...

    - English language national daily.
  • China Economic Times - daily.http://www.cet.com.cn/.
  • China Public Security Daily - official public security bureau
    Public Security Bureau
    In the People's Republic of China, a public security bureau refers to the government offices while the smaller offices are called Police posts which are similar in concept to the Japanese Kōban system) present in each province and municipality that handles policing , public security, and...

     paper.http://www.cpd.com.cn/.
  • China Youth Daily
    China Youth Daily
    The China Youth Daily is the official newspaper of Communist Youth League of China , and is a popular official daily newspaper and the first independently operated central government news media portal in the People's Republic of China.In 1980s it was regarded as the best newspaper in mainland...

    (Zhongguo Qingnian Bao) - state-run, associated with the Communist Youth League of China.
  • Economic Information Daily (Jingji cankao bao).http://jjckb.xinhuanet.com/.
  • The Economic Observer
    The Economic Observer
    The Economic Observer is an independent, weekly simplified Chinese-language newspaper published in the People's Republic of China since April 2001....

    - English edition of the privately-owned weekly newspaper http://eeo.com.cn/ens.
  • Global Times
    Global Times
    The Global Times is a daily Chinese tabloid under the auspices of the official Chinese Communist Party newspaper, the People's Daily, focusing on international issues...

    - national daily with two language editions http://www.huanqiu.com - Chinese and http://www.globaltimes.cn - English.
  • Gongren Ribao
    Gongren Ribao
    Workers' Daily is a simplified Chinese language newspaper nationwide in China with the circulation of 960,000.The newspaper has been published since 1946, reporting economic news in China.-References:* * Source: Pinyin translated with...

    (Workers' Daily).
  • Guangming Daily
    Guangming Daily (China)
    The Guangming Daily was launched on June 16, 1949 by the China Democratic League, and is a nationwide comprehensive newspaper based in Beijing. Its sponsorship was shifted to various democratic parties in China and the China Federation of Industry and Commerce in 1953...

    - conservative tabloid, close to the Communist Party of China
    Communist Party of China
    The Communist Party of China , also known as the Chinese Communist Party , is the founding and ruling political party of the People's Republic of China...

    .
  • Hua Xia Wen Zhai
  • Legal Daily
    Legal Daily
    The Legal Daily is a People's Republic of China state-owned newspaper under the supervision of the PRC Ministry of Justice that is published in the PRC and primarily covers legal developments....

    (Fazhi Ribao) - supervised by the Ministry of Justice
    Ministry of Justice of the People's Republic of China
    Ministry of Justice of the People's Republic of China is a ministry of the Chinese central government which is responsible for legal affairs...

    .
  • Nongmin Ribao (Farmers' Daily) - agricultural and rural issues.
  • PLA Daily
    PLA Daily
    PLA Daily is China-based media outlet for the People's Liberation Army of the People's Republic of China.It covers news stories relating to the PLA and other military affairs...

    (Jiefangjun Bao) - official daily of the People's Liberation Army
    People's Liberation Army
    The People's Liberation Army is the unified military organization of all land, sea, strategic missile and air forces of the People's Republic of China. The PLA was established on August 1, 1927 — celebrated annually as "PLA Day" — as the military arm of the Communist Party of China...

    .
  • People's Court Daily
    People's Court Daily
    People's Court Daily is a daily newspaper in China owned by the PRC Supreme People's Court. It was established on October 1, 1992 and is headquartered in Beijing....

  • People's Daily
    People's Daily
    The People's Daily is a daily newspaper in the People's Republic of China. The paper is an organ of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of China , published worldwide with a circulation of 3 to 4 million. In addition to its main Chinese-language edition, it has editions in English,...

    (Renmin Ribao) - voice of the Central People's Government
    Central People's Government
    The Central People's Government is the central government of the People's Republic of China in Beijing. According to the 1982 Constitution, "Central People's Government" is synonymous with the State Council.-History:...

     and CPC Central Committee (Communist Party daily).
  • Reference News
    Reference News
    Reference News , first published on November 7, 1931, is a newspaper daily which has the largest circulation in mainland China with 3 million. It is published by Xinhua News Agency...

    - has the largest circulation in mainland China, published by Xinhua News Agency.

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
    Beijing Evening News
    Beijing Evening News is a Chinese language newspaper in the People's Republic of China from Beijing. It was founded on March 15, 1958. Mao Zedong wrote the title for it in 1964....

    - 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 http://beijingtoday.com.cn - the English weekly edition of the Beijing Youth Daily
  • Beijing Youth Daily
    Beijing Youth Daily
    The Beijing Youth Daily is the official newspaper of the Communist Youth League committee in Beijing. It was established in 1949, and is now published by the Beijing Youth Daily Publishing Company. It is one of Beijing's most widely-circulated newspapers....

    http://www.ynet.com - best-selling daily in the capital
  • Freezing Point
    Freezing Point
    Freezing Point is a news journal in the People's Republic of China which has been the subject of controversy over its criticism of Communist Party officials and the sympathetic ear it lent to a Chinese historian who had criticized official history textbooks...

  • Legal Mirror (Fazhi Ribao)
  • Qianlong

Chongqing

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

Guangdong

  • Guangzhou Daily
    Guangzhou Daily
    Guangzhou Ribao is the official newspaper of the Guangzhou municipal party committee published by the Guangzhou Daily Newspaper Group. The daily newspaper was established on October 1, 1952....

  • Information Times
  • Xin Kuai Bao
  • 21st Century Business Herald
  • Guangzhou Metro Daily
  • Panyu Daily
  • Southern Weekly
  • Yangcheng Evening News
    Yangcheng Evening News
    Yangcheng Evening News is a Chinese newspaper in Chinese language, national unified publication number CN44-0006 in Guangzhou, Guangdong, China.-History:...

  • Southern Metropolis Daily
    Southern Metropolis Daily
    Southern Metropolis Daily is a daily Tabloid newspaper published in Guangzhou, sister to the Southern Daily and part of the giant Southern Media Group. It circulation is mainly in the Pearl River Delta area, contains Guangzhou, Shenzhen, Hong Kong and Macau....

  • Southern Daily
  • Guangzhou Morning Post
  • Shenzhen Economic Daily
  • Shenzhen Evening News
  • Shenzhen Daily - One of China's three English language daily newspapers http://paper.sznews.com/szdaily
  • Shenzhen Dushi News
  • Shenzhen Special Zone Daily
  • Shenzhen Youth News
  • Zhongshan Daily

Guizhou

  • Guizhou Business Daily
  • Guizhou Daily
    Guizhou Daily
    Guizhou Daily is the main newspaper agency of the southern Chinese province of Guizhou.Founded after the Chinese Civil War, it and the Guiyang Daily formed the main basis of communication across the province. In recent years, popularity has given way to its subsidiaries which are 贵州商报, 贵州都市报,...

  • Guizhou Provincial
  • Huaxi City Daily

Hebei

  • Hebei Daily
    Hebei Daily
    Hebei Daily is the official newspaper of the Hebei branch of the Communist Party of China.Hebei Daily is edited in the provincial captital Shijiazhuang and printed in 11 cities every morning. This newspaper is broadsheet, often with 16 pages...

    (CPC official paper).
  • Yanzhao Metropolis Daily
    Yanzhao Metropolis Daily
    Yanzhao Metropolis Daily is a morning newspaper published in the Hebei province of the People's Republic of China. It is owned by Hebei Daily Newspaper Group, which also publishes Hebei 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).

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 Daily
    Wuxi Daily was established on Aug 1, 1949. It is owned by the Wuxi Municipal Government. Wuxi Daily was the first newspaper to be available online in Jiangsu.-About:Wuxi Daily is the mainstream media in Wuxi...

    - Wuxi
    Wuxi
    Wuxi is an old city in Jiangsu province, People's Republic of China. Split in half by Lake Tai, Wuxi borders Changzhou to the west and Suzhou to the east. The northern half looks across to Taizhou across the Yangtze River, while the southern half also borders the province of Zhejiang to the south...

  • Xinhua Daily
    Xinhua Daily
    Xinhua Daily was the first public newspaper published in the People's Republic of China by the Communist Party of China. It is owned by the Jiangsu Committee of the Communist Party of China.-History:...

  • Yangtse Evening Post
    Yangtse Evening Post
    The Yangtse Evening Post is a Chinese Language newspaper published from Nanjing, China. It is one of world's most circulated newspapers.-External links:*http://www.mondotimes.com/1/world/cn/192/4541/11429#...

    - Nanjing
    Nanjing
    ' is the capital of Jiangsu province in China and has a prominent place in Chinese history and culture, having been the capital of China on several occasions...

  • Yangzhou Ribao

Liaoning

  • Dalian Daily
  • Dalian Evening News
  • Liaoning Daily
    Liaoning Daily
    Liaoning Daily is the official newspaper of the Liaoning Provincial Committee of the Communist Party of China, published since September 1, 1954 by the Liaoning Daily Newspaper Group....

  • Liaoning Farmer
  • North Morning News
  • Peninsula Morning News
  • Peninsula City News
  • Shenyang Wanbao
  • Times Business 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
    Jiefang Daily
    Jiefang Daily is the daily newspaper of the Shanghai Committee of Communist Party of China. Its daily circulation is about 700,000 copies now.-History:Jiefang Daily was first published on May 28 1949 in Shanghai...

    (Liberation Daily) - official daily of Shanghai Committee of the Communist Party of China
  • Shanghai Daily
    Shanghai Daily
    Shanghai Daily is an English-language newspaper in China started in October 1999 and owned by Wenhui-xinmin United Press Group. Its primary audience is visiting foreigners, mainly overseas investors and tourists to Shanghai, though many Chinese students read it to improve their English...

    - voice of the Shanghai People's Government
  • Shanghai Morning Post
    Shanghai Morning Post
    Shanghai Morning Post is a newspaper published by Jiefang Daily Newspaper Group since January 1, 1999.The daily circulation of this tabloid newspaper is around 500,000 copies per day....

  • Shanghai Post
  • Shanghai Star
    Shanghai Star
    Shanghai Star was a weekly English-language newspaper published in Shanghai, China between 1992 and 2006. It was owned and run by its parent, the Beijing-based China Daily....

    - weekly tabloid providing reports on people and issues in Shanghai and neighbouring regions.
  • Shanghai Xinmin Evening News
  • Oriental Morning Post
  • Wen Hui Bao
    Wen Hui Bao
    Wenhui Bao is a major Chinese daily newspaper, published in Shanghai.-History:Wenhui Bao was founded in Shanghai in 1938 by leftist leaning intellectuals centred around writer and journalist Ke Ling...

    , published in Shanghai (not confused with Wen Wei Po
    Wen Wei Po
    Wen Wei Po is a Hong Kong-based Chinese language newspaper, which was first established in Shanghai in January 1938; its Hong Kong version was launched on 9 September 1948....

    , a newspaper with the same Chinese name published in Hong Kong
  • Wenhui Book Review
    Wenhui Book Review
    Wenhui Book Review is a weekly newspaper based in Shanghai, owned by Wenhui-xinmin United Press Group. It was established on March 2, 1985.-External links:*...

  • Xinmin Evening News
    Xinmin Evening News
    Xinmin Evening News , formerly known as Xinmin Po, is a newspaper published since September, 1929 in Shanghai, China.It is now owned by Wenhui-xinmin United Press Group...

    (Xinmin Wanbao)
  • China Youth Daily
    China Youth Daily
    The China Youth Daily is the official newspaper of Communist Youth League of China , and is a popular official daily newspaper and the first independently operated central government news media portal in the People's Republic of China.In 1980s it was regarded as the best newspaper in mainland...

    (Youth Daily)

Xinjiang

  • Xinjiang Daily
  • Xinjiang Newspaper
  • Xinjiang Economic Daily
    Xinjiang Economic Daily
    The Xinjiang Economic Daily is a state-run daily newspaper published in the Xinjiang autonomous region of the People's Republic of China. It is published in the Chinese language only...

  • Qapqal News
    Qapqal News
    The Qapqal News is the world's only newspaper in the Xibe language, a Tungusic language spoken in northwest China. It is one of roughly fifty minority-language newspapers in the Xinjiang autonomous region of the People's Republic of China.-History:...

    , the world's only Xibe-language
    Xibe language
    The Xibe language is the most widely spoken of the Tungusic languages spoken by members of the Xibe ethnic group in Xinjiang, in the northwest of the People's Republic of China.-Phonology:...

     newspaper

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
    Chinese Academy of Social Sciences
    The Chinese Academy of Social Sciences , established in 1977, is the premier and highest academic research organization in the fields of philosophy and social sciences as well as a national center for comprehensive studies in the People's Republic of China. It was described by Foreign Policy...

    .
  • 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
    The Economic Observer
    The Economic Observer is an independent, weekly simplified Chinese-language newspaper published in the People's Republic of China since April 2001....

    - China's leading weekly for economy, politics, and culture. English edition of the privately-owned weekly newspaper http://eeo.com.cn/ens
  • 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


Sports news

  • Titan Sports Weekly - China's most successful sports bi-weekly newspaper. It started off as a photocopied football fanzine
    Fanzine
    A fanzine is a nonprofessional and nonofficial publication produced by fans of a particular cultural phenomenon for the pleasure of others who share their interest...

     in the 1990s.
  • Soccer News - dedicated for Chinese soccer fans, reports national and international soccer news.
  • Nanfang Daily
    Nanfang Daily
    The Southern Daily is the official Guangdong Communist Party newspaper, sister to the more lively and commercial Southern Metropolis Daily and part of the giant Southern Media Group....

    - China sports events by calendar.
  • Sports China - cover sports news for every sports events, includes Chinese martial arts
    Chinese martial arts
    Chinese martial arts, also referred to by the Mandarin Chinese term wushu and popularly as kung fu , are a number of fighting styles that have developed over the centuries in China. These fighting styles are often classified according to common traits, identified as "families" , "sects" or...

    .
  • Oriental Sports Daily
    Oriental Sports Daily
    Oriental Sports Daily , formerly called Xinmin Sports, was the first Chinese sports newspaper, apart from China Sports....

    - focus on eastern China's football events.

Defunct newspapers

  • Wan guo gong bao
    Wan Guo Gong Bao
    A Review of the Times– Traditional Chinese: 萬國公報; Simplified Chinese: 万国公报; Pinyin: Wàn Guó Gōng Bào; Wade-Giles: Wan Kwoh Kung Pao; Literally: "The Ten Thousand Nations' Common Newspaper"...

    - monthly newspaper published by Methodist missionaries from 1868–1907.

See also

  • Chinese tabloid
    Chinese tabloid
    Chinese tabloid refers to a newspaper format that became extremely popular in the People's Republic of China in the mid-1990s. Like tabloids in the rest of the world, they focus on sensationalism and scandal, but in the context of media in China this has the effect of challenging government limits...

  • :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
    Communications in the People's Republic of China
    The People's Republic of China possesses a diversified communications system that links all parts of the country by Internet, telephone, telegraph, radio, and television...

  • List of Chinese companies
  • Lists of magazines
  • List of newspapers

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