Reference News

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Reference News ({{zh|c=参考消息|p=Cānkǎo Xiāoxī}}) is a Chinese newspaper published by Xinhua News Agency. Founded in 1931, it is ranked 7th in the world by circulation and 1st in China.{{cite web|url=http://anp.cl/wp-content/uploads/2017/02/WAN-IFRA_WPT_2016_3.pdf|title=World Press Trends 2016|last=Milosevic|first=Mira|date=2016|publisher=WAN-IFRA|page=58|access-date=January 15, 2018|archive-date=January 15, 2018|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180115184445/http://anp.cl/wp-content/uploads/2017/02/WAN-IFRA_WPT_2016_3.pdf|url-status=dead}}[http://www.people.com.cn/GB/guoji/8212/36645/36728/2734896.html 新华通讯社（Xinhua News Agency] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160303184651/http://www.people.com.cn/GB/guoji/8212/36645/36728/2734896.html |date=2016-03-03 }}. People's Daily.

Reference News was first published on 7 November 1931.{{cite news |author = Yulya Toporochan |title = Main Media Players in China |url = http://china.ahk.de/market-info/media-marketing/main-media-players-in-china/ |access-date = 1 November 2014 |work=AHK |year = 2013 }} The early editions of the newspaper were published under different titles in Ruijin until it was renamed Reference News in 1942.{{Cite book |last=Vittinghoff |first=Natascha |url=http://worldcat.org/oclc/902156338 |title=Encyclopedia of contemporary Chinese culture |date=2009 |publisher=Routledge |isbn=978-0-415-24129-8 |pages=61 |chapter=Cānkǎo Xiāoxī (Reference News) |oclc=902156338}} It is published by Xinhua News Agency (formerly Red China News Agency, 1931–1937). As the Chinese government's official news agency, Xinhua translates and re-publishes articles by foreign news agencies. Before the 1980s, it was the only official channel for the Chinese public to have a glimpse of the outside world.{{cite book|last=Yew|first=Lee Kuan|title=From Third World to First|year=2000|publisher=HarperCollins Publishers Inc.|isbn=0-06-019776-5|page=[https://archive.org/details/fromthirdworldto00leek/page/648 648]|url=https://archive.org/details/fromthirdworldto00leek/page/648}} The paper is also published in the Uyghur, Kazakh, Korean, and Mongolian languages for ethnic minority groups in China.

On 2 January 1985, Reference News was approved to cancel its "internal publication" designation and switched to public distribution.[http://www.mongabay.com/reference/country_studies/china/SOCIETY.html China Society]. Country Studies Program.{{Cite web |title=解密《参考消息》从内部到公开变迁历程_资讯_凤凰网 |url=https://news.ifeng.com/mainland/200811/1113_17_876786_1.shtml |access-date=2024-11-13 |website=news.ifeng.com}}