Economic Information Daily
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| format = Broadsheet
| foundation = 1 July 1981
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| owners = Xinhua News AgencyChris Buckley.{{cite web|title=Scandal Downs Chairman of a Top Chinese State Company|url=https://cn.nytimes.com/china/20140421/c21corruption/en-us/|date=April 18, 2014|work=The New York Times}}
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| language = Chinese
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| headquarters = Beijing, China{{cite book|author1=Jay D White|author2=William A. Joseph|title=China Briefing: The Contradictions of Change|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=ZKKqDwAAQBAJ&pg=PT43|date=8 August 2019|publisher=Taylor & Francis|isbn=978-1-315-28471-2|pages=43–}}
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| website = {{URL|http://jjckb.xinhuanet.com}}
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The Economic Information Daily ({{zh|s=经济参考报 |t=經濟參考報 |p=Jīngjì Cānkǎo Bào}}{{cite book|author=Wendy Ng|title=The Political Economy of Competition Law in China|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=GJNADwAAQBAJ&pg=PT385|date=11 January 2018|publisher=Cambridge University Press|isbn=978-1-107-15440-7|pages=385–}}), also translated into English as Economic Reference Paper{{cite book|author=Min Ye|title=Diasporas and Foreign Direct Investment in China and India|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=qUxsBQAAQBAJ&pg=PA106|date=18 August 2014|publisher=Cambridge University Press|isbn=978-1-107-05419-6|pages=106–}} or Economic Reference Daily,{{cite book|author1=Jie Fan|author2=Thomas Heberer|author3=Wolfgang Taubmann|title=Rural China: Economic and Social Change in the Late Twentieth Century: Economic and Social Change in the Late Twentieth Century|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=GJxhCQAAQBAJ&pg=PA324|date=15 May 2015|publisher=Routledge|isbn=978-1-317-46064-0|pages=324–}} is a Chinese state-run newspaperWilliam Kazer.{{cite web|title=New Warning Issued on China Local Government Debt|url=https://www.wsj.com/articles/no-headline-available-1380304883|date=September 27, 2013|publisher=The Wall Street Journal}} specializing in economics,{{cite book|title=Fifty Years of New China Media (1949-1999)|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=ZOq4AAAAIAAJ|year=2000|publisher=China Journalism Yearbook Press|pages=515–}} based in Beijing.
Economic Information Daily is sponsored and supervised by Xinhua News Agency,{{cite book|author1=Nissim Otmazgin|author2=Eyal Ben-Ari|title=Popular Culture and the State in East and Southeast Asia|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=MsKoAgAAQBAJ&pg=PA166|date=March 2013|publisher=Routledge|isbn=978-1-136-62295-3|pages=166–}} and is directly contacted and directed by the Central Policy Research Office of China.{{cite book|title=History of Beijing|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=1UMLAQAAMAAJ|publisher=Beijing Publishing House|pages=133–}}{{cite book|title=Worldwide, Issues 165-176|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=M8iGAAAAIAAJ|year=1994|publisher=Xinhua Publishing House|pages=47–}}
Inaugurated in Beijing on 1 July 1981,{{cite book|title=Daily Report: China|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=JNtlaNqgK1kC|year=1990|publisher=Foreign Broadcast Information Service|pages=13–}} Economic Information Daily is the first national economic professional newspaper born during China's Reform and opening up.{{cite book|title=Directory of Chinese News Publishers|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=kWOuAAAAIAAJ|year=1994|publisher=Xinhua Publishing House|pages=7–| isbn=9787501120970 }} On 7 December 1990, Deng Xiaoping wrote the name of the Economic Information Daily in his own handwriting.{{cite book|title=People's Republic of China Year-book, Volume 11|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=RKNWAAAAMAAJ|year=1991|publisher=Xinhua Publishing House}}
On July 17, 2013, Wang Wenzhi (王文志), the principal reporter of the Economic Information Daily, reported in his Sina Weibo that the chairman of China Resources Group, Song Lin, was suspected of huge corruption.Chris Buckley.{{cite web|title="Economic Information Daily" reporter real-name reports on corruption of the chairman of China Resources Group|url=https://www.bbc.com/zhongwen/simp/china/2013/07/130717_china_crchk_corruption|date=July 17, 2013|website=BBC.com}} Wang accused Song Lin of intentionally overpaying for a coal-industry acquisition, resulting in the loss of billions of state property.{{cite book|author1=William A. Babcock|author2=William H. Freivogel|title=The SAGE Guide to Key Issues in Mass Media Ethics and Law|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=Q31ZDwAAQBAJ&pg=PT909|date=23 March 2015|publisher=SAGE Publications|isbn=978-1-5063-1728-1|pages=909–}}