Guangming Daily

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The Guangming Daily, Guangming Ribao, or

Guangming Daily
Enlightenment Daily[1] is a national Chinese-language daily

newspaper published in the People's Republic of China.
Established in 1949 as the official paper of the China
Democratic League, it has become the official organ of the
Chinese Communist Party for China's intellectuals. As one of
China's "big three" newspapers during the Cultural
Revolution, it played an important role in the political
struggle between Hua Guofeng and the Gang of Four in 1976
and between Hua and Deng Xiaoping in 1978.

Contents
1 History
2 Circulation
3 Guangming Online
4 The Beijing News
5 References
Front page of the first issue on 16 June 1949
6 External links
Type Daily newspaper
Format Broadsheet
History Founded 16 June 1949
Language Chinese
The Guangming Daily, then romanized as Kuangming, was
launched on 16 June 1949 in Beijing. It was originally the Headquarters Beijing
official newspaper of the China Democratic League, but later Circulation 490,000
became the Chinese Communist Party's official organ for
Website www.gmw.cn
China's educated elite.[2]

During the Cultural Revolution (196676), Guangming Guangming Daily

Daily was one of the only three national newspapers that
remained in circulation, together with the People's Daily and Simplified Chinese
the People's Liberation Army Daily, and the sole magazine Traditional Chinese
Red Flag. The four periodicals, known as "the three papers
and one magazine", dominated China's public affairs. For Transcriptions
safety reasons, regional newspapers and specialist magazines Standard Mandarin
all took cues from the big four, and largely reprinted articles Hanyu Pinyin Gungmng Rbo
from them.[3]
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Before the death of Mao Zedong, the paper fell under the
control of the radical Gang of Four led by Mao's wife Jiang Qing. In October 1976, Vice Premier Ji Dengkui
played a significant role in taking over the Guangming Daily, helping Mao's successor Hua Guofeng oust the
Gang of Four and put an end to the Cultural Revolution.[4]

In 1978, the liberal Communist Party leader Hu Yaobang appointed Yang Xiguang, formerly with Shanghai's
Jiefang Daily, chief editor of the Guangming Daily. Under Yang's editorship, Guangming was the first Chinese
newspaper to stop publishing Chairman Mao's Quotations on the front page every day.[5] On 11 May 1978, it
published Hu Fuming's famous editorial "Practice is the Sole Criterion for Testing Truth" (Chinese:
), refuting Hua Guofeng's Two Whatevers theory in
support of Deng Xiaoping's Reform and Opening policy. The article was
quickly reprinted in almost all major Chinese newspapers, cementing
support for Deng's victory over Hua.[5][6]

Circulation
Guangming Daily's circulation reached 1.5 million in 1987, but as
independent publications flourished during the Reform and Opening Headquarters of Guangming Daily
era, it dropped to 800,000 in 1993.[2]:167 To survive in the market, it
decided to reduce political coverage and propaganda, and increase its coverage on culture and science.[2]:167 As
of 2013, the paper had a daily circulation of 490,000.[7]

Guangming Online
In 1998, Guangming Daily launched its official website Guangming Online (GMW.cn), which was one of the
earliest news websites in China.[8] As of July 2017, Alexa Internet ranks the website as the 73rd most visited in
the world and 14th in China.[9]

The Beijing News

In 2003, Guangming Daily partnered with the Southern Newspaper Group (publisher of the highly successful
Southern Weekly) to jointly publish The Beijing News, which quickly became one of Beijing's most influential
newspapers.[10]

References
1. John King Fairbank; Denis Crispin Twitchett, eds. (1978). The Cambridge History of China(https://books.google.com/b
ooks?id=ioppEjkCkeEC&pg=PA693). Cambridge University Press. p. 693.ISBN 978-0-521-24336-0.
2. Yuezhi Zhao (1998).Media, Market, and Democracy in China: Between the Party Line and the Bottom Line (https://boo
ks.google.com/books?id=hHkza3TX-LIC&pg=P A17). University of Illinois Press. pp. 1718.ISBN 978-0-252-06678-
8.
3. Timothy Cheek (7 January 2016).The Intellectual in Modern Chinese History(https://books.google.com/books?id=qbA
kCwAAQBAJ&pg=PA183). Cambridge University Press. p. 183.ISBN 978-1-107-02141-9.
4. Yuwu Song (8 July 2013).Biographical Dictionary of the People's Republic of China(https://books.google.com/books?i
d=PnsjAwAAQBAJ&pg=PA148). McFarland. pp. 148.ISBN 978-0-7864-3582-1.
5. ": " (http://news.ifeng.com/history/zhongguoxiandaishi/detail_2010_02/24/
353441_0.shtml). Phoenix Media (in Chinese). 24 February 2010.
6. Zeng Tao. "" (http://www.people.com.cn/item/20years/newfiles/a1010.html) . People's Daily
(in Chinese). Retrieved 12 July 2017.
7. "Main Media Players in China"(http://china.ahk.de/market-info/media-marketing/main-media-players-in-china/) . AHK
Greater China. Retrieved 12 July 2017.
8. "About GMW.cn" (http://en.gmw.cn/2012-08/31/content_4945905.htm). Guangming Online. 31 August 2012.
9. "gmw.cn Traffic Statistics" (http://www.alexa.com/siteinfo/gmw.cn). Alexa Internet. Retrieved 12 July 2017.
10. Jonathan Hassid (22 December 2015).China's Unruly Journalists: How Committed Pr ofessionals are Changing the
Peoples Republic (https://books.google.com/books?id=JqdACwAAQBAJ&pg=P A113). Routledge. p. 113. ISBN 978-1-
317-35414-7.

External links
Official site (Chinese)
Official site (English)
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