The ''Qilu Evening News'' (), based in

Jinan Jinan (), Postal Map Romanization, alternately romanization of Chinese, romanized as Tsinan, is the Capital (political), capital of Shandong province in East China, Eastern China. With a population of 9.2 million, it is the second-largest city i ...

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, is a daily

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. It is one of the most circulated newspapers in the world according to ''

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''; the newspaper has a circulation of 1.67 million, making it the fifth most widely circulated daily newspaper in China. The ''Qilu Evening News'' was founded on 1 January 1988, and its masthead (logo in the case of the online edition) was written in

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by former

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. It is currently published by Dazhong Newspaper Group (), which as of 2011 published eleven other Chinese newspapers. According to the company's official biography, its brand was worth 2.896 billion yuan ( billion) in 2011.

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