''The Beijing News'' is a
Chinese Communist Party
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-owned newspaper from Beijing. The Chinese name of the newspaper is ''Xīn Jīng Bào'' (), meaning "New Beijing News", which is a reference to the defunct ''
Peking Gazette
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'' ().
The Chinese publications serial number of the newspaper is CN11-0245.
History
''The Beijing News'' began publishing on 11 November 2003
[ by a joint venture of Guangming Daily Press and Nanfang Media Group (also transliterated as "Southern Newspaper Group" or Southern Daily Press Group, publisher of '']Southern Weekly
''Southern Weekly'' (literally ''Southern Weekend;'' ), is a Chinese weekly newspaper based in Guangzhou, and is a sister publication of the newspaper ''Nanfang Daily''.
History and profile
''Southern Weekly'', founded in 1984, has its head ...
''), both owned by the sub-committees of the Chinese Communist Party (CCP), the ruling party of China since 1949. Guangming Daily Press was owned by the Central Committee
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while Nanfang Media Group was owned by the Guangdong
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provincial committee of the CCP. Initially, staff from Nanfang Media Group dominated the day-to-day operation of the newspaper, turning ''The Beijing News'' into one of Beijing's most influential newspapers.
According to Jonathan Hassid, an assistant professor (from 2015 to 2018) at Iowa State University
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, the two publishers had different difficulties in their publishing business. ''Guangming Daily'' had a valuable central-level administrative rank but was the country poorest major publisher, while "Nanfang" had money to invest but its administrative rank was restricting the publisher to obtain new publication number or expand outside their home province Guangdong. According to another article by Congressional-Executive Commission on China
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, "the ''Guangming Daily'' consistently follows the Party's line, while the Southern Daily Press Group's publications tend to be more commercially-oriented and willing to test Chinese censors".
In 2005, staff and online readers protested the sacking of the editors of the newspaper.
In July 2011, the newspaper defied the ban on reporting Wenzhou train collision
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. However, in the same month, the newspaper scrapped 9 pages of special reporting.
On 1 September 2011, the newspaper was taken over by the Propaganda Department of the .
In 2013, it was reported that Dai Zigeng, a publisher of the newspaper, had verbally resigned due to political pressure from the propaganda authorities.
In 2014, it was reported that the Publicity Department had acquired the remaining 49% stake from Nanfang Media Group.[ According to the '']South China Morning Post
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'', an English newspaper from Hong Kong, the general public were afraid that ''The Beijing News'' would be turned into a "propaganda mouthpiece". In February 2014, ''The Beijing News'', made a news coverage regarding Zhou Yongkang
Zhou Yongkang (born 3 December 1942) is a former senior leader of the Chinese Communist Party (CCP). He was a member of the 17th Politburo Standing Committee (PSC), China's highest decision-making body, and the Secretary of the Central Politic ...
's son possible corruption, but the article was taken down from the newspaper's website.
In 2018 the merger of the newspapers ''The Beijing News'', the ' and the news website ''qianlong.com'' () was announced. ''Beijing Morning Post'' ceased the publication in the same year.
See also
* ''Beijing Times
The ''Beijing Times'' () was a Chinese newspaper published in Beijing that is a part of the People's Daily Group. When it started in 2001 it had 12% of the Beijing newspaper market and its percentage increased afterwards. Tang Wenfang and Shanto Iy ...
'', another Beijing newspaper, ceased publication in 2017
* Beijing Daily Group: a publishing group that was also owned by the Beijing Municipal Party Committee, the owner of ''The Beijing News''. Beijing Daily Group publishes ''Beijing Morning Post'' as well as 8 other newspapers as of 2016,[ such as:
** '']Beijing Daily
''Beijing Daily'' () is the official newspaper of the Beijing municipal committee of the Chinese Communist Party (CCP). Founded on October 1, 1952, it has since 2000 been owned by the Beijing Daily Group, which also runs eight other newspapers. It ...
''
** ''Beijing Evening News
''Beijing Evening News'' or ''Beijing Wanbao'' (), also known as ''Beijing Evening Post'', is a Chinese language tabloid newspaper in the People's Republic of China from Beijing. It was founded on March 15, 1958. Mao Zedong wrote the title for it ...
''
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