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 in China. To date, 39 newspaper groups have been established in the country, 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.
History
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.
List
National newspapers China Daily - English language national daily China Economic Daily - daily China Education Daily (Zhongguo Jiaoyu Bao) China News Digest (Hua Xia Wen Zhai) - independent online media run abroad China Public Security Daily - official public security bureau paper China Youth Daily (Zhongguo Qingnian Bao) - quasi-liberal daily; state-run, associated with the Communist Youth League of China Economic Information Daily The Economic Observer - classical liberal weekly; English edition website of the privately owned weekly newspaper Global Times - Chinese Communist Party aligned, tabloid with two language editions, - Chinese and English Gongren Ribao (Workers' Daily) Guangming Daily - conservative daily, close to the CCP Legal Daily (Fazhi Ribao) - supervised by the Ministry of Justice Nongmin Ribao (Farmers' Daily) - agricultural and rural issues People's Court Daily People's Daily (Renmin Ribao) - official daily of the CCP Central Committee PLA Daily (Jiefangjun Bao) - official daily of the People's Liberation Army Reference News - has the largest circulation in mainland China, published by Xinhua News Agency
Regional newspapers
Anhui Anhui Daily Hefei Wanbao
Beijing Beijing Daily 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 - 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 The Beijing News (Xin Jing Bao) - third best-selling daily in Beijing; newly launched daily with reformist ambitions, very liberal Beijing Portal Beijing Ribao Beijing Times (Jing Hua Shi Bao) - People's Daily-affiliated tabloid, centrist/liberal, second best-selling tabloid in the capital Beijing Today - an English weekly covering cultural events and embassy news published by the Beijing Youth Daily Beijing Youth Daily - fourth best-selling daily in the capital China Newsday - an English China news aggregation which covers political, environmental and economic discussion Freezing Point Legal Mirror (Fazhi Ribao) A Liar's Digest - a Beijing-based underground newspaper in mainland China, which pokes fun at the state-controlled media
Chongqing Chongqing Daily China High Tech Chongqing Evening News Chongqing Globe Chongqing News - Chinese, English Chongqing Today
Fujian Common Talk Fujian Ribao
Gansu Gansu Daily
Guangdong 21st Century Business Herald Dongguan Times Guangzhou Daily Guangzhou Metro Daily Guangzhou Morning Post Information Times Panyu Daily Shenzhen Daily - one of China's three English-language daily newspapers Shenzhen Dushi News Shenzhen Economic Daily Shenzhen Evening News Shenzhen Special Zone Daily Shenzhen Youth News Southern Daily Southern Metropolis Daily Southern Weekly Xin Kuai Bao Yangcheng Evening News Zhongshan Daily
Guangxi Guangxi Daily
Guizhou Guizhou Business Daily Guizhou Daily Guizhou Provincial Huaxi City Daily
Hainan Haikou Evening News Hainan Daily Nanguo Metropolis Daily
Hebei Hebei Daily - CCP official paper Hebei Youth Daily - tabloid covering Shijiazhuang, operated by Beijing Youth Daily Shijiazhuang Daily - CCP official paper Yanzhao Evening Post - tabloid covering Shijiazhuang, the capital of Hebei Yanzhao Metropolis Daily - tabloid covering Hebei and sold in 11 cities around Hebei Province
Heilongjiang Harbin Daily Heilongjiang Morning Post
Henan Henan Daily Dahe Newspaper Henan Business Daily Central Railway News Luoyang Daily
Hubei Changjiang Daily Chutian Metro Daily Hubei News Wuhan Evening News Wuhan Morning News Xianning Daily
Hunan Changsha Evening News - Chinese, English Hunan Daily Sanxiang Metro News Xiaoxiang Morning News
Inner Mongolia Hohhot Evening Post Hohhot Morning Post Hulunbeir Daily Inner Mongolia Daily Northern News Daily Northern Family Daily
Jiangsu Wuxi Daily - Wuxi Xinhua Daily Yangtse Evening Post - Nanjing Yangzhou Ribao Nanjing Morning Post
Jiangxi Information Daily Jiangnan newspaper Jiangxi Daily
Jilin China Jilin Jilin News Today New
Liaoning Dalian Daily Dalian Evening News Liaoning Daily Liaoning Farmer North Morning News Peninsula City News Peninsula Morning News Shenyang Wanbao Times Business Daily
Shaanxi Shaanxi Daily Sanqin Daily Chinese Business View Xi'an Daily Xi'an Evening News Sunshine Daily Tongchuan Daily Baoji Daily Xianyang Daily Weinan Daily
Shandong Dazhong Daily Jinan Daily Jinan Times - daily Life Daily - published by Shandong Dazhong Daily News Group Qilu Evening News - 1.2 million circulation; published by Shandong Dazhong Daily News Group Qingdao Daily Qingdao Globe Qingdao News
Shanghai 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
Shanxi Shanxi Daily
Sichuan Chengdu Economic Daily Sichuan Daily Trust Post
Tianjin Jin Wanbao Tianjin Ribao
Tibet Lasa Evening News Tibet Broadcast Tibet Daily
Xinjiang Qapqal News, the world's only Xibe-language newspaper Xinjiang Daily Xinjiang Economic Daily Xinjiang Newspaper
Yunnan