Category Archives: Newspapers

Xiushui Market aka Silk Alley has been open for 20 years and is famous for selling fake brand name clothes. The market officially closed yesterday. Most newspapers in Beijing used this news for their lead headlines. Construction on the Xiushui … Continue reading →

The title of this post was the most popular leading headline for Beijing newspapers today. What Xinhua calls the “Food Safety Credit Index” is system to monitor the food brands sold in supermarkets and wholesale to assess their safety standards.  … Continue reading →

The same image of Premier Wen Jiabao comforting a crying boy was used on most Beijing newspaper front pages today. The accompanying articles claimed that Wen cried together with the boy. Wen was on a New Year visit to northwest … Continue reading →

Besides news about Chinese aid to tsunami-hit countries, the other big story is about how Chinese people celebrated the Gregorian New Year holiday. Today’s Beijing Times fronted with a picture of a “lucky chicken” (jixiang ji). These chickens are made … Continue reading →

According to The Beijing News via Chongqing Times, a building resembling Tiananmen gate looking has been constructed in a town near Chongqing. This building consists of seven separate towers. It cost more than RMB 5 million and is the office … Continue reading →

The title covers the key words of today’s newspapers in Beijing. The People’s Daily: China published on Monday a white paper on national defence, reaffirming its determination to crush any “Taiwan independence” attempt at all costs and reassure the world … Continue reading →

Today’s front pages are predictable; the pictured page fromBeijing Youth Daily is typical with the headline “Asia tsunami kills 15,500” The photo on the front page of Beijing Youth Daily shows a crying woman showing what is left of her … Continue reading →

Beijing Today, the English language weekly run by Beijing Media Corp, has published an article about architecture in China and China’s “crisis of national-cultural identity.” The article is a profile of architect Professor Yu Kongjie, who is not happy with … Continue reading →

The hottest news in Beijing today is about intellectual property rights: Chinese courts will from now treat IPR infringements as a ‘major criminal offense’ rather than a minor one. The Supreme People’s Court and the Supreme People’s Procuratorate held a … Continue reading →

The fifth anniversary of Macao’s return to Chinese rule did not attract much coverage in Beijing’s newspapers, but it was big news in the People’s Daily and on Xinhua. On the front page of today’s People Daily, two photos are … Continue reading →