Wednesday, September 24, 2008

Reference News

Reference News , began at December 7 1931, is a newspaper daily which has the largest circulation in mainland China with 3 million . It is published by Xinhua News Agency. As the Chinese government's official news agency, Xinhua carefully selects articles from world's major news agencies and news journals, translates them into Chinese. Before 1980's, it is the only official channel for the Chinese public to have a glimpse of the outside world. The paper is also published in Uighur, Kazakh, Korean, and Mogolian for these ethnic minority groups of China.

''Reference News'' was at first available only to and their families, but it was made available to the entire Chinese public after competition from news sources had started, and subsequently its circulation dropped from 11 million in 1980 to 4 million in 1985 .

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