{{Short description|Chinese Communist Party newspaper}} {{Infobox newspaper | name = Jiefang Daily | logo = | image = Jiefang Daily Front page 1941-05-16.jpg | caption = First issue of the ''Jiefang Daily '' published 16 May 1941 | type = Daily | format = Broadsheet | owners = Shanghai Committee of Chinese Communist Party<br />Shanghai United Media Group | publisher = Shanghai United Media Group<br />Jiefang Daily Press ({{lang-zh|s=解放日报社}}) | founded = May 28, 1949 | political_position = Chinese Communist Party | language = Chinese | headquarters = Jing'an District, Shanghai, China | oclc = 41624020 | website = {{Official URL}} }} '''''Jiefang Daily''''' ({{lang-zh|s=解放日报|p=Jiěfàng Rìbào}}), also translated as '''''Liberation Daily''''', is the official daily newspaper of the Shanghai Municipal Committee of the Chinese Communist Party (CCP). The Shanghai-based paper began publication in 1949, adopting the name of the Yan'an-based CCP newspaper which had ceased publication two years earlier.
==History== ''Jiefang Daily'' (''Liberation Daily'') was published in Yan'an beginning on 16 May 1941.<ref name=":03" />{{Reference page|page=25}} It published the famous editorial ''Without the Communist Party, There Would Be No New China''.<ref name=":RedInk">{{Cite book |last=Li |first=Ying |title=Red Ink: A History of Printing and Politics in China |publisher=Royal Collins Press |year=2024 |isbn=9781487812737}}</ref>{{Rp|pages=68, 110}} Mao Zedong provided regular instruction for the paper's operations and also contributed articles and essays for publication in it.<ref name=":03">{{Cite book |last=Kang |first=Xiaofei |title=Enchanted Revolution: Ghosts, Shamans, and Gender Politics in Chinese Communist Propaganda, 1942-1953 |date=2023 |publisher=Oxford University Press |isbn=978-0-19-765447-7 |location=New York (N.Y.) |doi=10.1093/oso/9780197654477.001.0001}}</ref>{{Reference page|page=25}}
During the editorial tenure of Lu Dingyi, ''Jiefang Daily'' increased its focus on promulgating CCP policies.<ref name=":03" />{{Reference page|pages=25-26}} Because the CCP relied on grassroots cadre to communicate its messages to the masses at a time when literacy was still limited, the newspaper used simple and direct language.<ref name=":03" />{{Reference page|page=26}} In an effort to give clear instruction, it typically published a piece of reporting side-by-side with an instructive editorial.<ref name=":03" />{{Reference page|page=26}} Seeking to implement principles of the mass line, the newspaper dispatched reporters to collect news stories from villagers and sought contributions from local cultural workers.<ref name=":03" />{{Reference page|page=26}} Circulation methods included village newspaper reading groups, community blackboards and bulletin boards, night study groups, and public meetings.<ref name=":03" />{{Reference page|page=26}}
Lu established the requirement that the paper's content had to be approved by the CCP.<ref name=":03" />{{Reference page|pages=25-26}} During Lu's tenure, the paper became more aligned with those who supported Mao's leadership, and less with the Soviet-leaning and Comintern-leaning members of party leadership.<ref name=":03" />{{Reference page|page=26}}
The Yan'an-based paper stopped operating 27 March 1947 when the CCP headquarters moved out of Yan'an because attack by the Nationalists was imminent.<ref name=":03" />{{Reference page|page=25}}
The newspaper has traditionally been designated as an official "mouthpiece" ({{Lang-zh|s=喉舌|l=throat tongue}}) of the CCP.<ref>{{Cite web |date=2025-10-29 |title=Mouthpiece |url=https://chinamediaproject.org/the_ccp_dictionary/mouthpiece/ |access-date=2026-03-15 |website=China Media Project |language=en-US}}</ref>
In March 2018, ''Jiefang Daily'' won the Third National Top 100 Newspapers in China.<ref name="o044">{{cite web | title= 第三届全国"百强报刊"公布 这份名单是怎么产生的 | website=People's Daily | date=2018-03-06 | url=http://media.people.com.cn/n1/2018/0306/c40606-29850971.html | language=zh | access-date=2025-02-06}}</ref><ref name="f915">{{cite web | title=第三届全国"百强报刊" 推荐结果出炉 | website=Xinhua News Agency | url=http://www.xinhuanet.com/zgjx/2018-03/05/c_137016743.htm | language=zh | access-date=2025-02-06}}</ref>
In October 2020, the United States Department of State designated ''Jiefang Daily'' as a foreign mission of China.<ref>{{Cite news |date=2020-10-21 |title=Pompeo says U.S. designates six more Chinese media firms as foreign missions |url=https://www.reuters.com/article/us-usa-china-pompeo-idUSKBN2762D0 |access-date=2020-10-21 |work=Reuters |language=en}}</ref><ref>{{cite web |title=Designation of Additional PRC Propaganda Outlets as Foreign Missions |url=https://www.state.gov/designation-of-additional-prc-propaganda-outlets-as-foreign-missions/ |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20201021173438/https://www.state.gov/designation-of-additional-prc-propaganda-outlets-as-foreign-missions/ |archive-date=21 October 2020 |access-date=21 October 2020 |website=U.S. Department of State}}</ref>
==See also== * List of newspapers in China * Yan'an Rectification Movement
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== External links == * {{Official website}}
Category:Newspapers published in Shanghai Category:Chinese-language newspapers (Simplified Chinese) Category:Chinese Communist Party newspapers Category:1949 establishments in Shanghai Category:Newspapers established in 1949 Category:State media Category:Chinese propaganda organisations Category:Propaganda newspapers and magazines Category:Shanghai United Media Group Category:Newspapers established in 1941