Nhân Dân Explained

Nhân Dân
Italic Title:no
Motto:The central organ of the Communist Party of Vietnam and the voice of the Party, State and People of Vietnam
Type:Daily Newspaper
Format:Print, online
Owners:Communist Party of Vietnam
Chiefeditor:Lê Quốc Minh
Language:Vietnamese and others
Headquarters:71 Hàng Trống Street, Hoàn Kiếm District, Hanoi
Political:Ho Chi Minh Thought
Socialist-oriented market economy
Website:
  • (Vietnamese)
  • (English)
Publishing Country:Vietnam

Nhân Dân (People;,,,) is the official newspaper of the Communist Party of Vietnam. According to the newspaper, it is “the voice of the Party, the State and the people of Vietnam.”

It has a daily circulation of 180,000 copies. Its weekend edition, Nhân Dân cuối tuần (lit: The People Weekend), has a circulation of 110,000 copies, and its monthly magazine has a circulation of 130,000 copies.It has an online edition that was started on June 21, 1998.

The newspaper was first published on March 11, 1951. Its predecessor was Sự Thật ("Truth") newspaper, which was set up in the 1940s.[1] Many important figures in the Vietnamese Communist Party worked at Nhân Dân. Trường Chinh and Tố Hữu were editors in chief of the newspaper. Painter Phan Kế An was a regular contributor during the First Indochina War in particular, after he was asked to join the newspaper by Trường Chinh.[1]

Current Editor in Chief of Nhân Dân is Lê Quốc Minh.

History

Newspaper and official name of the Party by time
Newspaper Time Party's name
Cờ Giải phóng
"Liberation Flag"
10 October 1942 – 17 July 1945
12 September 194518 November 1945
Indochinese Communist Party
Sự Thật
"Truth"
5 December 1945 – 21 December 1950 Institute for Studying Marxism in Indochina
Nhân Dân
"The People"
11 March 1951 – present Worker's Party of Vietnam
Communist Party of Vietnam

See also

External links

English edition

Notes and References

  1. Book: Lý Trực Dũng. Biếm họa Việt Nam. 2010. NXB Mỹ Thuật. Hanoi. 47.