{"id":5212,"date":"2009-01-26T11:55:53","date_gmt":"2009-01-26T03:55:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/danwei.webfactional.com\/?p=5212"},"modified":"2009-01-26T11:55:53","modified_gmt":"2009-01-26T03:55:53","slug":"spring_festival_2009","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/laodanwei.org\/wp\/front-page-of-the-day\/spring_festival_2009.php","title":{"rendered":"Spring Festival greetings 2009"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Shanghai Morning Post<\/i>
January 26, 2009<\/a><\/div>\n<\/div>\n

On the first day of the new lunar year, it’s time for China’s newspapers to celebrate the Spring Festival with colorful front pages and New Year’s greetings for their readers.<\/p>\n

One of the most attractive of today’s holiday-themed front pages is from the Shanghai Morning Post<\/i>, which uses a simple paper-cut border in lieu of the splashy, graphics- and ad-heavy designs that dominated most papers.<\/p>\n

The photo is of flight attendants preparing a flight for takeoff at Shanghai’s Pudong Airport. Surrounding it are short reports on Spring Festival celebrations in a variety of other areas: the New Year in Sichuan, the New Year for people who have to work, the New Year in SMS messages, and the New Year for President Hu Jintao.<\/p>\n

Hu, as the People’s Daily<\/i> notes<\/a> in two front-page photos, visted retired cadres in an old revolutionary area, where he stood for a photo-op while operating a soybean grinder. Premier Wen Jiabao also took part in home-style festival activities, frying up some twice-cooked pork for the locals during a visit to the Sichuan earthquake region.<\/p>\n

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Beijing Times<\/i>
January 26, 2009<\/a><\/div>\n<\/div>\n
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Southern Metropolis Daily<\/i>
January 26, 2009<\/a><\/div>\n<\/div>\n

Southern Metropolis Daily<\/i> trumpets the two leaders’ activities in front-page headlines above a photo of a family in Beichuan feasting in a curiously empty alley between two rows of temporary housing.<\/p>\n

Today’s Beijing Times<\/i>, with more than half of the front page devoted to a reporter visiting China’s Great Wall Station in Antarctica, gets the prize for self-promotion. The headline announces that the reporter, Tian Qianfeng, extends his New Year’s wishes to readers, but he’s holding a banner with the paper’s nameplate instead of an appropriate couplet or greeting.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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