Economic Information Daily Explained

Economic Information Daily
Format:Broadsheet
Foundation:1 July 1981
Owners:Xinhua News Agency[1]
Language:Chinese
Headquarters:Beijing, China[2]

The Economic Information Daily ([3]), also translated into English as Economic Reference Paper[4] or Economic Reference Daily,[5] is a Chinese state-run newspaper[6] specializing in economics,[7] based in Beijing.

Economic Information Daily is sponsored and supervised by Xinhua News Agency,[8] and is directly contacted and directed by the Central Policy Research Office of China.[9] [10]

Inaugurated in Beijing on 1 July 1981,[11] Economic Information Daily is the first national economic professional newspaper born during China's Reform and opening up.[12] On 7 December 1990, Deng Xiaoping wrote the name of the Economic Information Daily in his own handwriting.[13]

On July 17, 2013, Wang Wenzhi (王文志), the principal reporter of the Economic Information Daily, reported in his Sina Weibo that the chairman of China Resources Group, Song Lin, was suspected of huge corruption.[14] Wang accused Song Lin of intentionally overpaying for a coal-industry acquisition, resulting in the loss of billions of state property.[15]

Notes and References

  1. Chris Buckley.Web site: Scandal Downs Chairman of a Top Chinese State Company. April 18, 2014. The New York Times.
  2. Book: Jay D White. William A. Joseph. China Briefing: The Contradictions of Change. 8 August 2019. Taylor & Francis. 978-1-315-28471-2. 43–.
  3. Book: Wendy Ng. The Political Economy of Competition Law in China. 11 January 2018. Cambridge University Press. 978-1-107-15440-7. 385–.
  4. Book: Min Ye. Diasporas and Foreign Direct Investment in China and India. 18 August 2014. Cambridge University Press. 978-1-107-05419-6. 106–.
  5. Book: Jie Fan. Thomas Heberer. Wolfgang Taubmann. Rural China: Economic and Social Change in the Late Twentieth Century: Economic and Social Change in the Late Twentieth Century. 15 May 2015. Routledge. 978-1-317-46064-0. 324–.
  6. William Kazer.Web site: New Warning Issued on China Local Government Debt. September 27, 2013. The Wall Street Journal.
  7. Book: Fifty Years of New China Media (1949-1999). 2000. China Journalism Yearbook Press. 515–.
  8. Book: Nissim Otmazgin. Eyal Ben-Ari. Popular Culture and the State in East and Southeast Asia. March 2013. Routledge. 978-1-136-62295-3. 166–.
  9. Book: History of Beijing. Beijing Publishing House. 133–.
  10. Book: Worldwide, Issues 165-176. 1994. Xinhua Publishing House. 47–.
  11. Book: Daily Report: China. 1990. Foreign Broadcast Information Service. 13–.
  12. Book: Directory of Chinese News Publishers. 1994. Xinhua Publishing House. 7–. 9787501120970 .
  13. Book: People's Republic of China Year-book, Volume 11. 1991. Xinhua Publishing House.
  14. Chris Buckley.Web site: "Economic Information Daily" reporter real-name reports on corruption of the chairman of China Resources Group. July 17, 2013. BBC.com.
  15. Book: William A. Babcock. William H. Freivogel. The SAGE Guide to Key Issues in Mass Media Ethics and Law. 23 March 2015. SAGE Publications. 978-1-5063-1728-1. 909–.