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Reference News (Simplified Chinese: 参考消息, Traditional Chinese: 參考消息, Pinyin: Cānkǎo Xiāoxī), first published on December 7, 1931, is a newspaper daily which has the largest circulation in mainland China with 3 million.^[1] It is published by Xinhua News Agency. As the Chinese government's official news agency, Xinhua carefully selects articles from world's major news agencies and news journals and translates them into Chinese. Before 1980's, it was the only official channel for the Chinese public to have a glimpse of the outside world. The paper is also published in Uighur, Kazakh, Korean, and Mogolian for ethnic minority groups in China.

Reference News was at first available only to cadres and their families, but it was made available to the entire Chinese public after competition from news sources had started, and subsequently its circulation dropped from 11 million in 1980 to 4 million in 1985.^[2]

[edit] See also

• Xinhua News Agency
• China News Service
• People's Daily
• Media in the People's Republic of China
• The significantly more informative and substantial article on the Cankao xiaoxi in the Swedish edition of Wikipedia, [1]

[edit] References

[edit] External links

• Introduction on Xinhua News Agency website (Simplified Chinese)
• Mao Zedong and Reference newspapers (Simplified Chinese)

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