List of newspapers in China

This is a list of newspapers in China. The number of newspapers in mainland China has increased from 42—virtually all Communist Party papers—in 1968 to 382 in 1980 and more than 2,200 today. In 2006, China was the largest market for daily newspapers, with 96.6m copies sold daily, followed by India with 78.7m, Japan with 69.7m, the US with 53.3m, and Germany with 21.5m. China newspaper advertisement revenues increased by 128% from 2001 to 2006.

Between 1950 and 2000, the number of Chinese newspapers increased nearly ten-fold. In 2004, over 400 kinds of daily newspapers were published in China, their circulation reaching 80 million, the highest figure of any country in the world. Targeted at different reader groups, newspaper formats are becoming increasingly diverse. Recent years have seen an important trend of newspaper reorganization. To date, 39 newspaper groups have been established, such as Beijing Daily Newspaper Group, Wenhui Xinmin Associated Newspaper Group and Guangzhou Daily Newspaper Group.

In 2003, trans-regional cooperation among the print media became a new trend. The Beijing News, invested and run by Guangming Daily newspaper group and Nanfang Media Group, was the first to receive formal approval from the Chinese government to publish trans-regionally. Also Orient-Observation Weekly came out in Shanghai, its largest shareholder being the Beijing-based Xinhua News Agency.

History
In 1987 China had three news agencies serving two regimes, the Central News Agency in Taiwan and the Xinhua News Agency along with China News Service (Zhongguo Xinwenshe) in the mainland. Central News Agency is the country’s oldest news agency founded in 1928 in Guangzhou by the Nationalist government led by the Kuomintang which remains in existence in Taiwan. On the mainland, controlled by the Chinese Communist Party (CCP), Xinhua was the major source of news and photographs for central and local newspapers. The CCP's newspapers People's Daily and Enlightenment Daily (or Guangming Daily), and the People's Liberation Army's PLA Daily continued to have the largest circulation.

In addition to these major party and army organs, most professional and scientific organizations published newspapers or journals containing specialized information in fields as varied as astronomy and entomology.

Local morning and evening newspapers concentrating on news and feature stories about local people and events were extremely popular, selling out each day shortly after they arrived at the newsstands. In June 1981 the English-language China Daily began publication. This newspaper, which was provided for foreigners living or traveling in China but which also was read by a large number of Chinese literate in English, offered international news and sports from the major foreign wire services as well as interesting domestic news and feature articles.

Reference News, an official news organ that carried foreign news items in Chinese translation, was available to cadres and their families. In 1980 it enjoyed a circulation of 11 million, but, with the subsequent proliferation of other news sources, its circulation dropped to 4 million in 1985, causing the subscription policy to be changed to make it available to all Chinese. Another source of foreign reporting was Reference Information (Cankao Ziliao), a more restricted Chinese reprint of foreign reportage available only to middle- and upper-level cadres. Both of these publications often included foreign reports critical of China.

National newspapers

 * China Daily - English language national daily
 * China Economic Daily - daily
 * China Education Daily (Zhongguo Jiaoyu Bao)
 * China News Digest (Hua Xia Wen Zhai) - independent online media run abroad
 * China Public Security Daily - official public security bureau paper
 * China Youth Daily (Zhongguo Qingnian Bao) - quasi-liberal daily; state-run, associated with the Communist Youth League of China
 * Economic Information Daily
 * The Economic Observer - classical liberal weekly; English edition website of the privately owned weekly newspaper
 * Global Times - Chinese Communist Party aligned, tabloid with two language editions, - Chinese and English
 * Gongren Ribao (Workers' Daily)
 * Guangming Daily - conservative daily, close to the CCP
 * Legal Daily (Fazhi Ribao) - supervised by the Ministry of Justice
 * Nongmin Ribao (Farmers' Daily) - agricultural and rural issues
 * People's Court Daily
 * People's Daily (Renmin Ribao) - official daily of the CCP Central Committee
 * PLA Daily (Jiefangjun Bao) - official daily of the People's Liberation Army
 * Reference News - has the largest circulation in mainland China, published by Xinhua News Agency

Anhui

 * Anhui Daily
 * Hefei Wanbao

Beijing

 * Beijing Daily
 * Beijing Daily Messenger - prints 180,000 to 200,000 — 60,000 for subscribers; of the 120,000 retail copies, at least one-third is unsold
 * Beijing Entertainment News
 * Beijing Evening News - prints 700,000 copies — 450,000 for retail and 250,000 for subscribers; of the retail copies, 50,000 to 100,000 are unsold
 * Beijing Globe
 * Beijing Morning News - prints 180,000 — 130,000 are for subscribers; of the 50,000 retail copies, at least 20,000 are sold by the distribution center director as waste paper
 * The Beijing News (Xin Jing Bao) - third best-selling daily in Beijing; newly launched daily with reformist ambitions, very liberal
 * Beijing Portal
 * Beijing Ribao
 * Beijing Times (Jing Hua Shi Bao) - People's Daily-affiliated tabloid, centrist/liberal, second best-selling tabloid in the capital
 * Beijing Today - an English weekly covering cultural events and embassy news published by the Beijing Youth Daily
 * Beijing Youth Daily - fourth best-selling daily in the capital
 * China Newsday - an English China news aggregation which covers political, environmental and economic discussion
 * Freezing Point
 * Legal Mirror (Fazhi Ribao)
 * A Liar's Digest - a Beijing-based underground newspaper in mainland China, which pokes fun at the state-controlled media

Chongqing

 * Chongqing Daily
 * China High Tech
 * Chongqing Evening News
 * Chongqing Globe
 * Chongqing News - Chinese, English
 * Chongqing Today

Fujian

 * Common Talk
 * Fujian Ribao

Gansu

 * Gansu Daily

Guangdong

 * 21st Century Business Herald
 * Dongguan Times
 * Guangzhou Daily
 * Guangzhou Metro Daily
 * Guangzhou Morning Post
 * Information Times
 * Panyu Daily
 * Shenzhen Daily - one of China's three English-language daily newspapers
 * Shenzhen Dushi News
 * Shenzhen Economic Daily
 * Shenzhen Evening News
 * Shenzhen Special Zone Daily
 * Shenzhen Youth News
 * Southern Daily
 * Southern Metropolis Daily
 * Southern Weekly
 * Xin Kuai Bao
 * Yangcheng Evening News
 * Zhongshan Daily

Guangxi

 * Guangxi Daily

Guizhou

 * Guizhou Business Daily
 * Guizhou Daily
 * Guizhou Provincial
 * Huaxi City Daily

Hainan

 * Haikou Evening News
 * Hainan Daily
 * Nanguo Metropolis Daily

Hebei

 * Hebei Daily - CCP official paper
 * Hebei Youth Daily - tabloid covering Shijiazhuang, operated by Beijing Youth Daily
 * Shijiazhuang Daily - CCP official paper
 * Yanzhao Evening Post - tabloid covering Shijiazhuang, the capital of Hebei
 * Yanzhao Metropolis Daily - tabloid covering Hebei and sold in 11 cities around Hebei Province

Heilongjiang

 * Harbin Daily
 * Heilongjiang Morning Post

Henan

 * Central Railway News
 * Dahe Newspaper
 * Luoyang Daily

Hubei

 * Chutian Metro Daily
 * Hubei News
 * Wuhan Evening News
 * Wuhan Morning News
 * Xianning Daily

Hunan

 * Changsha Evening News - Chinese, English
 * Hunan Daily
 * Sanxiang Metro News
 * Xiaoxiang Morning News

Inner Mongolia

 * Hohhot Evening Post
 * Hohhot Morning Post
 * Hulunbeir Daily
 * Inner Mongolia Daily
 * Northern News Daily
 * Northern Family Daily

Jiangsu

 * Wuxi Daily - Wuxi
 * Xinhua Daily
 * Yangtse Evening Post - Nanjing
 * Yangzhou Ribao
 * Nanjing Morning Post

Jiangxi

 * Information Daily
 * Jiangnan newspaper
 * Jiangxi Daily

Jilin

 * China Jilin
 * Jilin News
 * Today New

Liaoning

 * Dalian Daily
 * Dalian Evening News
 * Liaoning Daily
 * Liaoning Farmer
 * North Morning News
 * Peninsula City News
 * Peninsula Morning News
 * Shenyang Wanbao
 * Times Business Daily

Shaanxi

 * Shaanxi Daily
 * Sanqin Daily
 * Chinese Business View
 * Xi'an Daily
 * Xi'an Evening News
 * Sunshine Daily
 * Tongchuan Daily
 * Baoji Daily
 * Xianyang Daily
 * Weinan Daily

Shandong

 * Dazhong Daily
 * Jinan Daily
 * Jinan Times - daily
 * Life Daily - published by Shandong Dazhong Daily News Group
 * Qilu Evening News - 1.2 million circulation; published by Shandong Dazhong Daily News Group
 * Qingdao Daily
 * Qingdao Globe
 * Qingdao News

Shanxi

 * Shanxi Daily

Sichuan

 * Chengdu Economic Daily
 * Sichuan Daily
 * Trust Post

Tianjin

 * Jin Wanbao
 * Tianjin Ribao

Tibet

 * Lasa Evening News
 * Tibet Broadcast
 * Tibet Daily

Xinjiang

 * Qapqal News, the world's only Xibe-language newspaper
 * Xinjiang Daily
 * Xinjiang Economic Daily
 * Xinjiang Newspaper

Zhejiang

 * Qianjiang Evening News
 * Zhejiang Daily

Hong Kong

 * See Newspapers of Hong Kong

Macau

 * See Media of Macau

Business news

 * 21st Century Business Herald - Southern Media Group publishes this paper Monday to Friday
 * China Business - business weekly, published by the Chinese Academy of Social Sciences
 * China Business News - first Chinese business daily, aims "to be the most influential, authoritative and respected financial daily newspaper in China
 * China Economic Times (Zhongguo Jingji Shibao) - Chinese financial and economic information
 * China Financial News - published in 1987, official newspaper of all Chinese major banks
 * China Stock News - China's leading newspaper for stock market, provides much data for access
 * Chinese Business View
 * The Economic Observer - China's leading weekly for economy, politics, and culture; English edition of the privately owned weekly newspaper
 * International Business Times (HK English)
 * National Business Daily - publishes eight pages apiece on domestic and international business news
 * Xinhua Business Weekly - an English newsletter published weekly by Xinhua News Agency

Information technology news

 * China Information World - published for 20 years; offers all IT information
 * China PC News - covers Chinese IT news, consumer news, PC services, software and hardware
 * IT Business Information - mainly provides software solutions to both buyers and sellers
 * IT Management - news centre for IT manager, project manager, CIO etc.
 * PC Professional China - computer technical discussion zone newspaper, also offers a buyers' guide
 * PC World - provides IT resources to enterprise, downloads, IT blog, and other technical journals
 * Programming and Maintenance - covers topics from programming to PC maintenance

Sports news

 * Oriental Sports Daily - a city newspaper from Shanghai, which focuses on Shanghai and surrounding cities's football events
 * Soccer News - dedicated to Chinese soccer fans, reports national and international soccer news
 * Sports China - covers sports news for every sports events, includes Chinese martial arts
 * Titan Sports - China's most successful sports bi-weekly newspaper; it started as a weekly newspaper with focus on world soccer news, then expanded to Chinese soccer news, especially with China's first participation in the final phase of World Cup (2002). It has conquered and kept more than 80% of printed sports media market-share with its filial magazines such as Soccer Weekly, Golf Digest China, Slam China, Runners' World China, etc.

Defunct newspapers

 * Wan guo gong bao - monthly newspaper published by Methodist missionaries from 1868 to 1907
 * Central Daily News – published by the Kuomintang from 1928 to 2006.