# Tibet Daily
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{{Short description|Chinese Communist Party newspaper}}
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{{lang|bo|བོད་ལྗོངས་ཉིན་རེའི་ཚགས་པར།}}
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| type = [Daily newspaper](/source/Daily_newspaper)
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| owners = [Tibet Autonomous Regional Committee of the Chinese Communist Party](/source/Tibet_Autonomous_Regional_Committee_of_the_Chinese_Communist_Party)
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| founded = April 22, 1956
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| political_position = [Chinese Communist Party](/source/Chinese_Communist_Party)
| language = [Chinese](/source/Chinese_language), [Tibetan](/source/Lhasa_Tibetan)
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| headquarters = [Lhasa](/source/Lhasa), [Tibet Autonomous Region](/source/Tibet_Autonomous_Region)
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The '''''Tibet Daily''''' ({{lang-zh|《西藏日报》}} {{lang|bo|བོད་ལྗོངས་ཉིན་རེའི་ཚགས་པར།}}) is the official newspaper of the [Tibet Autonomous Regional Committee of the Chinese Communist Party](/source/Tibet_Autonomous_Regional_Committee_of_the_Chinese_Communist_Party).[{{cite book | last=Goldstein | first=M.C. | title=A History of Modern Tibet, Volume 4: In the Eye of the Storm, 1957-1959 | publisher=University of California Press | year=2019 | isbn=978-0-520-27855-4 | url=https://books.google.com/books?id=eLWnDwAAQBAJ&pg=PA19 | access-date=2024-08-19 | page=19}}] It was launched on April 22, 1956, and is headquartered at No. 36 Dosenger Road, [Lhasa](/source/Lhasa).
==History ==
In the fall of 1951, after the [People's Liberation Army](/source/People's_Liberation_Army) entered [Lhasa](/source/Lhasa), the oil-printed tabloid ''Xinhua Telegraph'' ({{lang-zh|《新华电讯》}}) was established. The following year, it was renamed ''News Brief'' ({{lang-zh|《新闻电讯》}}), published in both Tibetan and Chinese, and began covering local news.[{{cite book | title=西藏新闻传播史 | publisher=中央民族大学出版社 | year=2005 | isbn=978-7-81108-089-6 | url=https://books.google.com/books?id=4DpFAAAAMAAJ | language=zh | access-date=2024-08-18 | page=150 | archive-date=2024-08-19 | archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20240819031632/https://books.google.com/books?id=4DpFAAAAMAAJ | url-status=live }}] After the [annexation of Tibet by the People's Republic of China](/source/annexation_of_Tibet_by_the_People's_Republic_of_China), the [Preparatory Committee for the Tibet Autonomous Region](/source/Preparatory_Committee_for_the_Tibet_Autonomous_Region) was established. At that time, the [CCP Tibet Work Committee](/source/CCP_Tibet_Work_Committee) decided to transform ''News Brief'' into a newspaper that would serve both as the official organ of the CCP and the Preparatory Committee for the Autonomous Region.[{{cite book | title=西藏的语言与社会 | publisher=[Social Sciences Literature Press](/source/Social_Sciences_Literature_Press) | series=21世纪中国民族问题丛书 | year=2018 | isbn=978-7-5097-9403-6 | url=https://books.google.com/books?id=JplfEAAAQBAJ&pg=PA406 | language=zh | access-date=2024-08-18 | page=406 | archive-date=2024-08-19 | archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20240819031634/https://books.google.com/books?id=JplfEAAAQBAJ&pg=PA406#v=onepage&q&f=false | url-status=live }}]
On April 22, 1956, ''Tibet Daily'' was launched.[{{cite book | last=Zhang | first=X. | title=China's Tibet | publisher=China Intercontinental Press | year=2004 | isbn=978-7-5085-0608-1 | url=https://books.google.com/books?id=6mh4GfOKqT8C&pg=PA141 | access-date=2024-08-19 | page=141}}] In February 1955, the CCP Tibet Work Committee reported to the [Central Committee of the Chinese Communist Party](/source/Central_Committee_of_the_Chinese_Communist_Party) its plans for the newspaper's establishment. By March 1955, the CCP Central Committee approved the proposal.[{{cite book | title=辉煌的二十世纪新中国大纪录: 西藏卷 | publisher=红旗出版社 | year=1999 | isbn=978-7-5051-0374-0 | url=https://books.google.com/books?id=OXo2AQAAIAAJ | language=zh | access-date=2024-08-18 | page=471 | archive-date=2024-08-19 | archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20240819031634/https://books.google.com/books?id=OXo2AQAAIAAJ | url-status=live }}] In October 1955, [Zhang Jingwu](/source/Zhang_Jingwu), the Central People's Government representative in Tibet, sought instructions from Chairman Mao Zedong regarding the creation of a large-scale bilingual newspaper in Tibetan and Chinese. He also requested Mao's inscription for the newspaper's masthead.[{{cite book | title=中國西藏 | publisher=民族出版社 | issue=nos. 1-6 | year=1996 | url=https://books.google.com/books?id=4Xk2AQAAIAAJ | language=zh | access-date=2024-08-18 | page=40 | archive-date=2024-08-19 | archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20240819031640/https://books.google.com/books?id=4Xk2AQAAIAAJ | url-status=live }}][{{cite book | author=当代中国丛书编辑部 | title=当代中国的西藏 | publisher=[Contemporary China Publishing House](/source/Contemporary_China_Publishing_House) | series=当代中国丛书 | issue=v. 2 | year=1991 | isbn=978-7-80092-041-7 | url=https://books.google.com/books?id=UYm6AAAAIAAJ | language=zh | access-date=2024-08-18 | page=435 | archive-date=2024-08-19 | archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20240819031635/https://books.google.com/books?id=UYm6AAAAIAAJ | url-status=live }}]
On February 18, 1956, the CCP Tibet Work Committee officially decided to found ''Tibet Daily'', and by March 7, 1956, the newspaper's Party Group and Editorial Committee were established. During the [1959 Tibetan uprising](/source/1959_Tibetan_uprising), the CCP Tibet Work Committee, concerned for the newspaper's safety, ordered it to relocate to the north side of the Tibet Military District compound. At the same time, pro-Chinese figures like [Kaxue Dondrub Tsetsujang](/source/Kaxue_Dondrub_Tsetsujang) and [Geshe Tsetsuza](/source/Geshe_Tsetsuza) were also moved to the new location.[{{cite book | title=世界屋脊上的秘密战争 | publisher=中国藏学出版社 | series=西藏百年风云丛书 | year=2004 | isbn=978-7-80057-455-9 | url=https://books.google.com/books?id=CYk2AQAAIAAJ | language=zh | access-date=2024-08-18 | page=346 | archive-date=2024-08-19 | archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20240819031633/https://books.google.com/books?id=CYk2AQAAIAAJ | url-status=live }}] The area was fortified with bunkers, trenches, sandbags, and wells, and sufficient supplies were stored for months. The newspaper, together with the Xinhua Branch, formed a militia company led by [Lu Shuangxin](/source/Lu_Shuangxin) ({{lang-zh|陆双欣}}), with [Zhang Dengxing](/source/Zhang_Dengxing) ({{lang-zh|张登兴}}) serving as company commander, comprising over 60 armed militiamen. On March 20, more than 100 Tibetans attacked the newspaper office from [Ramoche Temple](/source/Ramoche_Temple), but the militia successfully repelled the assault.[{{cite book | title=西藏风云 | publisher=新华出版社 | year=1987 | isbn=978-7-5011-0059-0 | url=https://books.google.com/books?id=-IPTAAAAMAAJ | language=zh | access-date=2024-08-18 | page=179 | archive-date=2024-08-18 | archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20240818125221/https://books.google.com/books?id=-IPTAAAAMAAJ | url-status=live }}][{{cite book | author=西藏自治区党史资料征集委员会 | author2=西藏军区党史资料征集领导小组 | title=平息西藏叛乱 | publisher=[Tibet People's Publishing House](/source/Tibet_People's_Publishing_House) | series=中共西藏党史资料丛书 | year=1995 | isbn=978-7-223-00883-9 | url=https://books.google.com/books?id=n39tAAAAIAAJ | language=zh | access-date=2024-08-18 | page=28 | archive-date=2024-08-19 | archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20240819031641/https://books.google.com/books?id=n39tAAAAIAAJ | url-status=live }}]
In August 1965, Mao Zedong inscribed the masthead of ''Tibet Daily''.[{{cite book | title=毛泽东百科全书 | publisher=[Guangming Daily Press](/source/Guangming_Daily_Press) | issue=v. 2 | year=1993 | url=https://books.google.com/books?id=gg7lAAAAMAAJ | language=zh | access-date=2024-08-18 | page= | archive-date=2024-08-18 | archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20240818130646/https://books.google.com/books?id=gg7lAAAAMAAJ | url-status=live }}]
==References ==
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== External links ==
* {{Official website}}
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