Guangming Daily
Front page of the first issue on 16 June 1949 | |
| Type | Daily newspaper |
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| Format | Broadsheet |
| Owner(s) | Chinese Communist Party (1982–present) China Democratic League (1949–1982) |
| Publisher | Guangming Daily Press |
| Founded | 16 June 1949 |
| Political alignment | Chinese Communist Party |
| Language | Chinese |
| Headquarters | Beijing |
| ISSN | 1002-3666 |
| Website | www |
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| Simplified Chinese | 光明日报 | ||||||||
| Traditional Chinese | 光明日報 | ||||||||
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The Guangming Daily, also known as the Enlightenment Daily, is a national Chinese-language daily newspaper published in the People's Republic of China. It was established in 1949 as the official paper of the China Democratic League. Starting from 1982, it was run by the Chinese Communist Party (CCP), and was officially recognized as an institution directly under the Central Committee of the CCP from 1994. As one of China's "big three" newspapers during the Cultural Revolution, it played an important role in the political struggle between Hua Guofeng and the Gang of Four in 1976 and between Hua and Deng Xiaoping in 1978.