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The '''''Study Times''''' is the official newspaper of the Central Party School of the Chinese Communist Party (CCP).<ref>{{Cite web |date=2025-07-15 |title=China seeks to boost legal arsenal against foreign sanctions, interference |url=https://www.scmp.com/news/china/politics/article/3318272/china-charts-course-boost-legal-arsenal-against-foreign-sanctions-interference |access-date=2025-10-18 |website=South China Morning Post |language=en}}</ref><ref>{{Cite news |title=Some Chinese want their country to move closer to communism |url=https://www.economist.com/china/2022/06/30/some-chinese-want-their-country-to-move-closer-to-communism |access-date=2025-10-18 |work=The Economist |issn=0013-0613}}</ref> It is published by Study Times Press, a subsidiary of the Central Party School. The first issue was published in 1999, and the title of the newspaper was written by CCP General Secretary Jiang Zemin.<ref name=":0">{{Cite web |last=Bandurski |first=David |date=2019-03-02 |title=Suspect Confessions |url=https://chinamediaproject.org/2019/03/02/44541/ |access-date=2025-10-18 |website=China Media Project |language=en-US}}</ref>

== History == Since its launch on 17 September 1999,<ref name=":0" /><ref>[http://www.china.com.cn/xxsb/txt/2004-04/23/content_5549695.htm 学习时报社简介] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180320201229/http://www.china.com.cn/xxsb/txt/2004-04/23/content_5549695.htm}},人民网</ref><ref>{{Cite web |title=学习时报社会责任报告(2020年度) |url=https://www.sohu.com/a/www.sohu.com/a/473269938_121106822 |access-date=2025-10-18 |website=www.sohu.com}}</ref> the newspaper has attached great importance to the study of party issues, social and urban issues, put forward the concept of "learning society", and explored ways to improve the effectiveness of the CCP's newspapers and periodicals and increase their readership.<ref>{{cite journal |author1=刘丽波 |date=2013 |title=《学习时报》对党报党刊发展的启发 |journal=新闻传播 |issue=7 |page=245 |issn=1672-0261 }}</ref><ref name="Chung-MingJianfa2000">{{cite book |author1=Lau Chung-Ming |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=1426AAAAIAAJ |title=China Review |author2=Shen Jianfa |publisher=Chinese University Press |year=2000 |isbn=9789622019454 |page=xxxvi |access-date=December 26, 2017 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200727190110/https://books.google.com/books?id=1426AAAAIAAJ |archive-date=July 27, 2020 |url-status=live}}</ref><ref name="Heath2016">{{cite book |author=Timothy R. Heath |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=iGY3DAAAQBAJ&pg=PA217 |title=China's New Governing Party Paradigm: Political Renewal and the Pursuit of National Rejuvenation |date=May 23, 2016 |publisher=Routledge |isbn=978-1-317-16711-2 |page=217 |access-date=December 26, 2017 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210303223426/https://books.google.com/books?id=iGY3DAAAQBAJ&pg=PA217 |archive-date=March 3, 2021 |url-status=live}}</ref>

''Study Times'' was once known for its open-mindedness and boldness. But after the leadership change in 2010, its style became increasingly conservative. Deng Yuwen was fired from the ''Study Times'' after he published an article ''China Should Abandon North Korea'' in ''Financial Times''.<ref>{{cite web |date=3 April 2013 |title= |script-title=zh:中共党校校刊副编审邓聿文呼吁“弃朝鲜”遭停职 |url=http://www.rfa.org/mandarin/yataibaodao/junshiwaijiao/ch-04022013155259.html |accessdate=12 November 2019 |website=Radio Free Asia |publisher= |language=zh}}</ref><ref>{{cite web |date=12 November 2019 |title= |script-title=zh:党校编审质疑中朝关系被停职 |url=http://cn.nytimes.com/china/20130402/c02editor/ |accessdate=2 June 2014 |work=The New York Times |language=zh}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web |date=2013-04-03 |title=网传党校学者因撰文呼吁中国应该放弃朝鲜而受处罚 |url=https://www.rfi.fr/cn/%E4%B8%AD%E5%9B%BD/20130403-%E7%BD%91%E4%BC%A0%E5%85%9A%E6%A0%A1%E5%AD%A6%E8%80%85%E5%9B%A0%E6%92%B0%E6%96%87%E5%91%BC%E5%90%81%E4%B8%AD%E5%9B%BD%E5%BA%94%E8%AF%A5%E6%94%BE%E5%BC%83%E6%9C%9D%E9%B2%9C%E8%80%8C%E5%8F%97%E5%A4%84%E7%BD%9A |access-date=2025-10-18 |website=Radio France Internationale |language=zh-Hans}}</ref> Since then, he criticized that after Xi Jinping became the General Secretary, the newspaper promoted Xi's personality cult and published a large number of reports praising Xi.<ref>{{Cite web |author=鄧聿文 |date=2020-06-17 |title=學習時報的醜陋墮落無底線 |url=https://www.worldjournal.com/6998281/article-學習時報的醜陋墮落無底線/ |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20200618005443/https://www.worldjournal.com/6998281/article-%E5%AD%B8%E7%BF%92%E6%99%82%E5%A0%B1%E7%9A%84%E9%86%9C%E9%99%8B%E5%A2%AE%E8%90%BD%E7%84%A1%E5%BA%95%E7%B7%9A/?ismobile=true |archivedate=June 18, 2020 |access-date=June 27, 2020 |website=World Journal |language=zh}}</ref>

== See also == * Newspapers and journals of the Chinese Communist Party

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== External links == * {{Official website}}

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Category:Chinese Communist Party newspapers Category:Central Party School of the Chinese Communist Party Category:Publications established in 1999 Category:1999 establishments in China