Front Page of the Day is a daily review of the news on the front page of one Chinese newspaper, selected from a newsstand in Beijing’s central business district.
English Premiership champions Manchester United won friendly match 6-0 against Shenzhen Shangqingyin in Macau SAR, yesterday. The front page picture of The First, a low-circulation daily broadsheet with a sports emphasis, shows MU’s Chinese player, Dong Fangzhuo, taking a shot.
A front-page teaser notes that the popular environmentally-friendly shopping bag – “I’m not a plastic bag” has been warmly welcomed in Beijing. By English designer Anya Hindmarch, orders for the first shipment of the bags have been placed at her Beijing shop. Customers booked all of the roughly 100 bags in just half a day. According to the article, the first bags will arrive in Beijing on July 27.
The paper’s top headline concerns tying welfare supplements for the city’s poor to price fluctuations.