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China launches a new daily Tibetan newspaper

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The People’s Daily, the mouthpiece newspaper of the Communist Party of China, began publishing a Tibetan-language edition on 1 August 2009. The newspaper, run by the People’s Daily and Tibet Daily, had four pages and will be circulated in all the Tibetan areas including Tibet Autonomous Region, Sichuan, Yunnan, Qinghai and Gansu provinces.People’s Daily/China

Xinhua reports that the People’s Daily, the mouthpiece newspaper of the Communist Party of China (CPC), launched a Tibetan edition of the paper on Saturday to provide “authoritative and accurate news and information.”

The report says that the newspaper, run by the People’s Daily and Tibet Daily, has four pages, which will be circulated in Tibet Autonomous Region and areas inhabited by Tibetans in neighbouring Sichuan, Yunnan, Qinghai and Gansu provinces.

The paper will be printed at three places — Lhasa, the capital of Tibet, Chengdu, the capital of Sichuan province, and Qinghai province capital Xining.

The new paper will be the first People’s Daily published in a language of an ethnic minority group.

A total of 50,000 copies will be distributed for free everyday. Each village will get three copies for free, each primary or high school and temple will get two copies.

On 25 July, China launched an Arabic-language channel for the Middle East and Africa as part of its efforts to expand the Communist government’s media influence abroad. The channel will reach around 300 million people in 22 countries in Asia, the Middle-East and North Africa. The network already broadcasts in English, French and Spanish, and has plans for a Russian-language service.

China is pumping a budget of 45 billion yuan (6.6 billion USD) to raise the profile of the state media abroad.

Beijing often complains of misrepresenting China by western media, but its own media is tightly controlled.

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