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| China Daily's founding publisher Jiang passes away |
| Veteran journalist and former publisher of China Daily Jiang Muyue passed away on Jan 24 at age 96. Between 1963 and 1978, Jiang Muyue worked as the deputy director of the China International Publishing Group, from where he was assigned to lead the establishment of New China's first national English-language daily newspaper — China Daily. He became the paper's publisher in 1981. |
| Jiang recalls birth of China Daily |
| Jiang Muyue was the publisher of China Daily when it was founded. He was instrumental in handling all the logistics for the paper's operation, circulation and general management. He recalls how the name of New China's first, and still the only, national English language newspaper came about. Since People's Daily was the most influential newspaper in China, there was a suggestion that an English edition of the paper be published. Others suggested we should set up a different, new paper. The consensus at that time was that it should be a different paper, and it should not be an English version of People's Daily. |
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