This is a list of newspapers in 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% 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. The Beijing News, invested and run by Guangming Daily newspaper group and Nanfang Media 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.
In 1987 China had three news agencies serving two regimes, the Central News Agency in Taiwan and the Xinhua News Agency along with China News Service (Zhongguo Xinwenshe) in the mainland. Central News Agency is the country’s oldest news agency founded in 1928 in Guangzhou by the Nationalist government led by the Kuomintang which remains in existence in Taiwan. On the mainland, controlled by the Chinese Communist Party (CCP), Xinhua was the major source of news and photographs for central and local newspapers. The CCP'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.
| Newspaper | Location | First issued | Publisher | Languages | Website | Notes |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jiefang Daily (Liberation Daily) | Shanghai | 1949 | Shanghai United Media Group | Official daily of Shanghai Committee of the Chinese Communist Party | ||
| Shanghai Daily | Shanghai | 1999 | Shanghai United Media Group | Voice of the Shanghai People's Government | ||
| Shanghai Evening Post & Mercury | Shanghai | 1929 | Shanghai United Media Group | |||
| Shanghai Morning Post | Shanghai | 1999 | Shanghai United Media Group | |||
| Shanghai Post | Shanghai | Shanghai United Media Group | ||||
| Shanghai Star | Shanghai | 1992-2006 | China Daily | Weekly tabloid providing reports on people and issues in Shanghai and neighbouring regions | ||
| Oriental Morning Post | Shanghai | Shanghai United Media Group | ||||
| Wen Hui Bao | Shanghai | 1938 | Shanghai United Media Group | Not to be confused with Wen Wei Po, a newspaper with the same Chinese name published in Hong Kong | ||
| Wenhui Book Review | Shanghai | 1985 | Shanghai United Media Group | |||
| Xinmin Evening News (Xinmin Wanbao) | Shanghai | 1929 | Shanghai United Media Group | |||
| Youth Daily | Shanghai | 1951 | the Shanghai Committee of Communist Youth League of China | Not to be confused with China Youth Daily, a newspaper with a similar Chinese name published in Beijing by the Central Committee of the Communist Youth League of China | ||
| Name | Name in Chinese | Language | Location | Publisher | First issued | Website | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Yunnan Daily | 云南日报 | Chinese | Yunnan Daily Group | 1950[1] | yndaily.yunnan.cn | ||
| Chuncheng Evening News | 春城晚报 | Chinese | Kunming | Yunnan Daily Group | 1980 | ccwb.yunnan.cn | |
| Yunnan Economic Daily | 云南经济日报 | Chinese | Kunming | Yunnan Daily Group | 1984[2] | jjrbpaper.yunnan.cn | |
| Nations Times | 民族时报 | Chinese | Kunming | Yunnan Daily Group | 1992[3] | mzsb.yunnan.cn | |
| Dianchi Morning News | 滇池晨报 | Chinese | Kunming | Yunnan Daily Group | 1998[4] | ||
| Dianzhong New Area News | 滇中新区报 | Chinese | Kunming | Yunnan Daily Group | 2015[5] | www.cnepaper.com | |
| Yunnan Tourism & Culture Times | 云南旅游文化时报 | Chinese English | Kunming | Yunnan Daily Group | 2016[6] | ||
| Yunnan Information | 云南信息报 | Chinese | Kunming | Yunnan Publishing Group Nanfang Media Group[7] | 1985[8] | www.ynxxb.com | |
| Yunnan Legal System | 云南法制报 | Chinese | Kunming | Yunnan Legal System | 1982[9] | www.ynfzb.cn | |
| Kunming Daily | 昆明日报 | Chinese | Kunming | Kunming Daily | 1985 | daily.clzg.cn | |
| City Times | 都市时报 | Chinese | Kunming | City Times | 1999 | times.clzg.cn | |
| Chinese | Kunming | Life News | 1989-2015[10] | ||||
| Qujing Daily | 曲靖日报 | Chinese | Qujing Daily | 1985 | epaper.qjrb.cn | ||
| Yuxi Daily | 玉溪日报 | Chinese | Yuxi Daily | 1989 | www.yxdaily.com | ||
| Baoshan Daily | 保山日报 | Chinese | Baoshan Daily | 1985 | paper.baoshandaily.com | ||
| Zhaotong Daily | 昭通日报 | Chinese | Zhaotong Daily | 1984 | dubao.ztnews.net | ||
| Lijiang Daily | 丽江日报 | Chinese | Lijiang Daily | 1989 | www.ljrbw.com | ||
| Pu'er Daily | 普洱日报 | Chinese | Pu'er Daily | 1979 | www.perb.cn | ||
| Lincang Daily | 临沧日报 | Chinese | Lincang Daily | 1987 | www.lcdaily.cn | ||
| Chuxiong Daily | 楚雄日报 | Chinese | Chuxiong Daily | 1976 | www.cxdaily.com | ||
| Honghe Daily | 红河日报 | Chinese | Honghe Daily | 1980 | cnepaper.com/hhrb | ||
| Wenshan Daily | 文山日报 | Chinese | Wenshan Daily | 1983 | szb.wsnews.com.cn/wsrb | ||
| Qidu Evening Post | 七都晚刊 | Chinese | Wenshan | Wenshan Daily | 2000 | szb.wsnews.com.cn/qdwk | |
| Xishuangbanna News | 西双版纳报 | Xishuangbanna News | 1956 | cnepaper.com/xsbnb | |||
| Dali Daily | 大理日报 | Chinese | Dali Daily | 1981 | www.dalidaily.com | ||
| Dehong Unity News | 德宏团结报 | Chinese Tai Le Jingpho (Latin) Lisu (Fraser) Zaiwa (Latin) | Dehong Unity News | 1955 | www.cnepaper.com/dhtjb | ||
| Pauk-Phaw | 胞波 | Mangshi | Dehong Unity News | 2015[11] | www.dhtjb.com | ||
| Nujiang News | 怒江报 | Chinese Lisu (Fraser) | Nujiang News | 1983 | dzb.nujiang.cn | ||
| Diqing Daily | 迪庆日报 | Diqing Daily | 1989 | www.xgll.com.cn |
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