Hangzhou Daily

Hangzhou Daily or Hangzhou Ribao (simplified Chinese: 杭州日报; traditional Chinese: 杭州日報; pinyin: Hángzhōu rìbào) is a Hangzhou-based Chinese daily newspaper and is one of the most circulated newspapers in the world. Hangzhou Daily is a newspaper of the People's Republic of China, founded on November 1, 1955. It is currently the official newspaper of the Hangzhou Municipal Committee of the Chinese Communist Party (CCP), managed by the Hangzhou Municipal Committee of the CCP and sponsored by the (Hangzhou Daily). This newspaper is the third official newspaper of a provincial capital city party committee, following the  and. The masthead of Hangzhou Daily features a character in Mao Zedong's handwriting, collected in 1958. The comprehensive strength of this newspaper ranks among the top in the national vice provincial city party committee organ newspapers.

History
On 18 April 1955, the CCP Hangzhou Municipal Committee set up the Preparatory Committee of Hangzhou Daily, and Hu Jingwei, member of the Standing Committee of the CCP Hangzhou Municipal Committee and Minister of Propaganda Department, was also the director. On 1 November of the same year, Hangzhou Daily was founded, and at the early stage of its publication, the newspaper was a folio 4-page, in order of news, local news, culture and life and other side special edition and Xinhua News Agency Telegraph Edition. in the early 1960s, due to economic difficulties, it changed to a 4-page 4-page and a limited circulation of 30,000 copies.

After the outbreak of the Cultural Revolution, from 1 to 10 January 1967, all editions of Hangzhou Daily carried only Xinhua News Agency wire service, and resumed normal publication from 11. 5 September 1968, the publication was suspended, and resumed publication on 16 December of the same year, and was still a 4-page 4-page.

In 1985, the newspaper was restored to a 4-page folio edition, and after the 1990s, Hangzhou Daily continued to change and expand its edition. In March 1992, the folio was a 4-page publication titled, which was later expanded to 8 color pages.; November 1993 launched the "Afternoon Edition" (for the predecessor of the "Daily Business Daily"). 2000 January 1, "Hangzhou Daily" expanded to 12 pages of colour printing.

On 31 December 1999, Hangzhou Daily launched the 100th edition of the commemorative issue to welcome the new century, which was divided into five parts, namely, "Brilliant History", "Ancient Capital Literary Rhythm", "Cangsang Town", "Hundred Schemes of Livelihood", "Hundred Years of Elites", of which more than 60 pages were devoted to news, which created a record for the number of pages published by Zhejiang Newspapers in a day. 20 October 2000, to celebrate the   2000 was held, the Hangzhou Daily launched the 12-page colour edition. To celebrate the 2000 West Lake Expo, Hangzhou Daily launched a 128-page special edition of the 2000 West Lake Expo, and produced a set of special edition CD-ROM for publication.

On 14th November 2000, Hangzhou Daily was named as "the second advanced unit of local newspaper management" by the General Administration of Press and Publication of the People's Republic of China, and on 8th November 2001, Hangzhou Daily Newspaper Group was established.

In 2018, the newspaper was selected as one of the top 100 national newspapers in 2017.

Layout & content
The Hangzhou Daily now has 8 pages on Mondays, 20 pages on Tuesdays and Wednesdays, 24 pages on Thursdays and Fridays, and 4 pages on Saturdays, Sundays and holidays. The content of the newspaper covers important news, Hangzhou news, district and county (city) news, Zhejiang news, China and international news, economic news, culture and sports news and supplements.

In the early 1980s, the newspaper put forward the policy of "new, fast, short, active and deep", and in 1993, when the newspaper expanded its edition for the first time, it made a breakthrough in the quantity, quality and timeliness of the news, while stipulating that the first and second pages should be published every day. At the same time, the newspaper stipulated that there should be at least 3 news articles about yesterday on each of the first and second pages of the newspaper every day. 2000, when the newspaper was expanded, the number of news pages of Hangzhou Daily was increased from 7 to 10, and the number of news pages was expanded from 7 to 10, with the expansion of the news page, international and domestic page, sports and culture page and the addition of new Hangzhou news page, economic news page, and point of view page, which increased the amount of information of the newspaper after the expansion and reform.

Since the 1950s, the newspaper has attached great importance to economic reports, and since 1980, it has been the first newspaper in mainland China to open a special section on "Tourism", which includes travelogue, introduction of famous places and monuments, travelogue and Hangzhou scenery, etc. In terms of supplements, the newspaper has been expanding its news section since its establishment. In terms of supplements, the newspaper has had a comprehensive supplement "Cultural Life" on the third page since its inception, which was renamed "Early Sun" in April 1957, and after the resumption of the folio newspaper in 1985, the supplement was set up on the fourth page, with "Flower Harbor", "Seven-Coloured Flowers", "Reading", "Sports", "Tourism", "Weekend", etc. The current name of the supplement is "Xihang", which is the first newspaper in mainland China to set up a special section on "Tourism". The current name of the supplement is West Lake.