China's media industry: past, present and future
- Source: Global Times
- [18:21 September 29 2009]
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Establishment of State media
Just before the founding of the People’s Republic of China, official media agencies and journalism schools were set up right.
The first news agency founded by the CCP was called Red China, Hongse Zhonghua, established in 1931 in Ruijin, China’s southeastern Jiangxi Province. It later changed its name to Xinhua News Agency in Yan’an in J1937. Fan helped found the first journalism school founded by the CCP, called Huazhong journalism training school in 1946. Two years later, the People’s Daily was launched in 1948 in Hebei, as the authoritative publication of the CCP.
Fan was appointed director of the People’s Daily in 1950. However, only after two-and-a-half years, he left the media industry forever.
Although Fan wasn’t a working journalist anymore, he never stopped making his voice heard. He continued to write articles mostly concerned about China’s media industry and new journalists. He called all journalists to tell the truth and to pursue one’s ideals all the time. Fan also expressed strong objection to servile thoughts.
Unfortunately, Fan suffered from terrible persecution since 1966 and committed suicide in 1970. Many other outstanding journalists suffered during the Cultural Revolution, such as Pu Xixiu, Deng Tuo, Jin Zhonghua, and Meng Qiujiang. All of them contributed greatly to China’s media industry for decades. Articles they wrote and published, news agencies they founded and operated, have made the CCP a more powerful political force.
