newspaper in China

According to the official statistics, every day nearly 100 million papers are sold in China, which is the highest sales around the word, and people get sorts of information from them, such as news, jobs, advertisements, and so on. One of the most popular papers is Southern Weekend, which is famous for honoring the principles of integrity and impartiality of its coverage. As far as one reliable investigation, Southern Weekly sells around 230 thousand papers per week, ranging second in China Southern Newspaper Cooperation, following the Yangcheng Evening News, selling approximately 34o thousand paper every week.

However, in recent years, television and Internet have been developing so rapidly that they heavily impaired the influence of newspaper. These new medium provide a more convenient way to spread information. Curiously, a recent survey showed that 740 in 1000 people would rather surf the net than read a paper, saying that Internet provides them with a broader and freer platform to get news or make a comment about it, which is helpful for supervising government.

But in spite of the importance of new technologies in communication, paper still plays an indispensible role. Many people, especially the odd, can’t have themselves leaving papers. Consequently, when will the papers die out or whether they will die out? No one knows it.