Economic Daily
{{Short description|Chinese Communist Party newspaper}}
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| type = Daily newspaper
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| foundation = January 1, 1983
| founder = State Council
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| owners = Central Propaganda Department of the Chinese Communist Party
| publisher = Economic Daily Press
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| language = Chinese
| political = Chinese Communist Party
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| headquarters = 2 Baizhifang East Street, Xicheng District, Beijing
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| website = {{Official URL}}
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The Economic Daily ({{Lang-zh|c=经济日报}}) is a Chinese state-owned newspaper focusing on economic reports. Founded in Beijing on January 1, 1983, the newspaper is managed by the Central Propaganda Department of the Chinese Communist Party. The Economic Daily is pro-business, and the tone is conservative.{{cite book |url=https://www.google.com/books/edition/Chinese_Politics_in_the_Era_of_Xi_Jinpin/lscqBwAAQBAJ?hl=en&gbpv=1&dq=conservative+Economic+Daily&pg=PA164& |title=Chinese Politics in the Era of Xi Jinping: Renaissance, Reform, Or Retrogression? |date=March 12, 2015 |publisher=Taylor & Francis |editor=Wo-Lap Lam |editor-first=Willy |editor-link=Willy Wo-Lap Lam |quote=Equally significant was a series of five commentaries that appeared in the conservative Economic Daily.}}
History
The newspaper was first published on 1 January 1983.{{cite book |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=SFEbAQAAMAAJ |title=China Publishing Yearbook, Volume 2008 |publisher=Commercial Press |year=2008 |pages=620–}}
In 1984, Deng Xiaoping wrote an inscription for the Economic Daily.{{Cite web |title=经济日报 |url=https://www.mfa.gov.cn/ce/ceuk/chn/sybd/zymt/t707301.htm |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220710044410/www.mfa.gov.cn/ce/ceuk/chn/sybd/zymt/t707301.htm |archive-date=2022-07-10 |access-date=2022-07-10 |website=Embassy of the People's Republic of China in the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland}}
In March 2018, Economic Daily won the Third National Top 100 Newspapers in China.{{cite web |date=2018-03-06 |title=第三届全国"百强报刊"公布 这份名单是怎么产生的 |url=http://media.people.com.cn/n1/2018/0306/c40606-29850971.html |access-date=2025-02-06 |website=People's Daily |language=zh}}{{cite web |title=第三届全国"百强报刊" 推荐结果出炉 |url=http://www.xinhuanet.com/zgjx/2018-03/05/c_137016743.htm |access-date=2025-02-06 |website=Xinhua |language=zh}}
In October 2020, the United States Department of State designated the Economic Daily as a foreign mission of China.{{Cite news |date=2020-10-21 |title=Pompeo says U.S. designates six more Chinese media firms as foreign missions |language=en |work=Reuters |url=https://www.reuters.com/article/us-usa-china-pompeo-idUSKBN2762D0 |access-date=2020-10-21 |archive-date=2021-01-09 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210109034558/https://www.reuters.com/article/us-usa-china-pompeo-idUSKBN2762D0 |url-status=live }}{{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}}
= Hoax =
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On January 28, 1993, Economic Daily published an article entitled Can Water Really Become Gasoline? —— A Record of Private Entrepreneur Wang Hongcheng and His Invention (水真能变成油吗?——记民营企业家王洪成与他的发明).{{cite book |author1=Yu Qiao |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=wB5wAAAAIAAJ |title=China Under the Rampage |author2=Yang Zi |publisher=Sichuan University Press |year=1993 |isbn=978-7-5614-0836-0 |pages=248–}} The article, written by Economic Daily reporters Wu Hongbo (吴红博) and Liu Donghua (刘东华),{{cite book |author=Liu Huajie |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=rjSAAAAAIAAJ |title=Chinese Science: From the Perspective of Philosophy and Sociology |publisher=Shanghai Jiao Tong University Press |year=2004 |isbn=978-7-313-03597-4}} praised the "invention" of Wang Hongcheng (王洪成) for transforming water into gasoline as "China's fifth greatest invention" (中国第五大发明) after the traditional Four Great Inventions.{{Cite news |date=2016-08-31 |title=China's Fifth Greatest Invention After the Establishment of the Chinese Communist Party Is Actually a Hoax |url=https://www.dwnews.com/%E4%B8%AD%E5%9B%BD/59765572/%E4%B8%AD%E5%85%B1%E5%BB%BA%E6%94%BF%E5%90%8E%E7%9A%84%E4%B8%AD%E5%9B%BD%E7%AC%AC%E4%BA%94%E5%A4%A7%E5%8F%91%E6%98%8E%E7%AB%9F%E6%98%AF%E9%AA%97%E5%B1%80 |publisher=Duowei News |access-date=2020-09-14 |archive-date=2023-02-20 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230220091957/https://www.hk01.com/?utm_source=dwnews&utm_medium=referral |url-status=live }}{{Cite news |date=2019-04-27 |title=A Chinese farce that lasted more than ten years |url=https://www.dwnews.com/%E4%B8%AD%E5%9B%BD/60131243/%E4%B8%A4%E5%85%A5%E7%A7%A6%E5%9F%8E%E7%9B%91%E7%8B%B1%E7%9A%84%E9%80%9A%E5%A4%A9%E5%B0%8F%E6%A1%88%E4%B8%80%E5%9C%BA%E6%8C%81%E7%BB%AD%E5%8D%81%E4%BD%99%E5%B9%B4%E7%9A%84%E4%B8%AD%E5%9B%BD%E9%97%B9%E5%89%A7 |publisher=Duowei News |access-date=2020-09-14 |archive-date=2023-02-20 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230220092101/https://www.hk01.com/?utm_source=dwnews&utm_medium=referral |url-status=live }} However, the water-to-gasoline technology (水变油技术) was later deemed a hoax and pseudoscience,{{Cite news |date=2016-04-14 |title=Originating from the Great Leap Forward and the Cultural Revolution, Hawking's enemies in China |url=https://www.dwnews.com/%E4%B8%AD%E5%9B%BD/59732351/%E6%BA%90%E4%BA%8E%E5%A4%A7%E8%B7%83%E8%BF%9B%E4%B8%8E%E6%96%87%E9%9D%A9%E9%9C%8D%E9%87%91%E5%9C%A8%E4%B8%AD%E5%9B%BD%E7%9A%84%E6%95%8C%E4%BA%BA%E4%BB%AC |publisher=Duowei News |access-date=2020-09-14 |archive-date=2023-02-20 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230220091956/https://www.hk01.com/?utm_source=dwnews&utm_medium=referral |url-status=live }} and in 1998, its initiator, Wang Hongcheng, was sentenced to 10 years in prison.{{cite book |author1=Weiping Sun |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=PWB1CgAAQBAJ&pg=PA118 |title=The "New Culture": From a Modern Perspective |author2=Mingcang Zhang |date=25 August 2015 |publisher=Springer |isbn=978-3-662-48011-3 |pages=118–}}
Organization
The Economic Daily is published by the Economic Daily Press, a deputy-ministerial-level institution.{{Cite web |title=Decoding Chinese Politics: Party Center |url=https://asiasociety.org/policy-institute/decoding-chinese-politics?policy=party-center&group=organizations&size=rank&connection=personal |access-date=11 October 2024 |website=Asia Society| date=4 October 2024 }} It is managed by the Central Propaganda Department of the Chinese Communist Party.{{Cite news |title=《经济日报》 |url=https://www.chinadaily.com.cn/jjzg/2007-04/16/content_851189.htm |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200813092744/https://www.chinadaily.com.cn/jjzg/2007-04/16/content_851189.htm |archive-date=2020-08-13 |access-date=2022-07-10 |website=China Daily}}
References
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External links
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Category:Newspapers established in 1983
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Category:Conservatism in China
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