Wednesday, September 24, 2008

Workers' Daily

Workers' Daily is a simplified Chinese language newspaper nationwide in China with the circulation of 960,000.

The newspaper has been published since 1946, reporting economic news in China.

Wenhui Book Review

Wenhui Book Review is a weekly newspaper based in Shanghai, owned by Wenhui-xinmin United Press Group. It was established on March 2, 1985.

Wen Hui Bao

Wen Hui Bao is a Major Chinese daily newspaper, published in Shanghai.

History


Wenhuibao was founded in Shanghai in 1938 by leftist leaning intellectuals around the writer and journalist Ke Ling. Over the next decade it was closed down twice for its political leanings.

In early 1956, ''Wen Hui Bao'' was forced to relocate to Beijing and was renamed Jiaoshibao . In the course of the Hundred Flowers Campaign, however, the paper was allowed to resume publication on 1 October, 1956. Under its editor-in-chief Xu Zhucheng, ''Wen Hui Bao'' became one of the most outspoken newspapers during the Hundred Flowers Campaign, but was attacked by Mao Zedong in July 1957 and punished.

In late 1965, ''Wen Hui Bao'' became an outlet for the Shanghai leftists around Jiang Qing and Zhang Chunqiao, who launched their attack on the writer on the pages of ''Wen Hui Bao''. This article became the starting shot of China's Cultural Revolution. On 4 January, 1967, the paper was taken over by radical Red Guards in the first power seizure in Shanghai.

In the 1980s, ''Wen Hui Bao'' re-emerged as an intellectually stimulating and widely read paper with mass circulation. When readership dropped in the 1990s, it was merged with the market -oriented Xinmin Wanbao newspaper into the Wenhui-Xinmin United Press Group.

Southern Weekend

Southern Weekend, also referred to as Southern Weekly is a weekly newspaper based in Guangzhou, China, and a sister publication of the newspaper Southern Daily.

Sichuan Daily

Sichuan Daily is a leading Chinese language daily newspaper based in Chengdu, Sichuan, mainland China with a circulation of 8,000,000 as of 2002.

Shanghai Morning Post

Shanghai Morning Post is a newspaper published by ''Jiefang Daily'' Newspaper Group since January 1, 1999.

The daily circulation of this tabloid newspaper is around 500,000 copies per day.

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 .