''Xinmin Evening News'' (), formerly known as ''Xinmin Po'', is a state-owned

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published since September, 1929 in

Shanghai Shanghai (; , , Standard Mandarin pronunciation: ) is one of the four direct-administered municipalities of the People's Republic of China (PRC). The city is located on the southern estuary of the Yangtze River, with the Huangpu River flow ...

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. It is now owned by

Shanghai United Media Group Shanghai United Media Group () is a state media company of the People's Republic of China, established on October 28, 2013, through the merger of the city's two largest newspaper groups, Jiefang Daily Press Group and Wenhui–Xinmin United Press ...

. Its current editorial mission is the

socialist Socialism is a left-wing economic philosophy and movement encompassing a range of economic systems characterized by the dominance of social ownership of the means of production as opposed to private ownership. As a term, it describes the e ...

-inspired "promote the policies from the government, spread the knowledge, change the culture, satisfy the life" (「宣傳政策，傳播知識，移風易俗，豐富生活」; Pinyin: xuānchuán zhèngcè, chuánbō zhīshi, yífēng yìsú, fēngfù shēnghuó). In 1990, Xinmin Evening News personnel were dispatched to the U.S. to found an American edition to counter negative perceptions of the

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following the

1989 Tiananmen Square protests and massacre The Tiananmen Square protests, known in Chinese as the June Fourth Incident (), were student-led demonstrations held in Tiananmen Square, Beijing during 1989. In what is known as the Tiananmen Square Massacre, or in Chinese the June Fourth ...

. In October 2020, the

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designated ''Xinmin Evening News'' as a

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of the Chinese government.

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* Publications established in 1929 Chinese Communist Party newspapers Newspapers published in Shanghai Culture in Shanghai Chinese-language newspapers (Simplified Chinese) {{China-newspaper-stub State media Chinese propaganda organisations