1. The Beijing News is the first newspaper with legal status and legal protection in China approved by the Propaganda Department of the Communist Party of China (CPC) and approved by the General Administration of Press and Publication. It is a truly trans-regional cooperative newspaper run by media groups.
The Beijing News is a difficult step and an important achievement in China's press and publication and cultural system reform. A small step for the Beijing News and a big step for the newspaper industry in China. China's long-standing backward situation of media industry zoning and local interest protectionism may begin to improve.
For a period of time, China's press and publication and cultural system reform only heard loud thunder and little rain. They only listened to the door singing softly, but didn't see the melody singing loudly. In this sense, the Beijing News is the opening of an era chorus. The Beijing News is the glory and dream of journalists in Beijing, and it will also be the glory and dream of journalists in China.
Every Beijing News person, no matter what kind of work he is engaged in in in the society, should firmly remember the heavy responsibility he has shouldered since then: whether the Beijing News is successful or not is not only related to his personal reputation and future, but also to the reputation and future of China's press and publication and cultural system reform. The responsibility of history falls on our shoulders. We should be responsible for both history and ourselves. We can only succeed. We have no choice but to succeed.
2. From the very beginning, The Beijing News has carried unparalleled attention and attention, and has become a weather vane for the evolution of the times and a weather vane that can not be ignored when judging the reform and opening-up process in China.
The Beijing News has received unprecedented care and support from the media industry and relevant leaders in the application and registration stages. After listening to the ideas of Guangming Daily newspaper group leaders on the reform and innovation of the business model and management system of the Beijing News, the leaders of Publicity Department of the Communist Party of China pointed out that it is a good thing for the two major party newspaper groups to cooperate in running newspapers in line with the requirements of the central government's relevant document spirit and cultural system reform, which is conducive to the party newspaper groups to give play to their advantages, complement each other's advantages and become bigger and stronger; And make a clear statement on the relevant application materials, expressing approval and support. The leaders of the State General Administration of Press and Publication also approved the Beijing News as a pilot project for cross-regional cooperation in running newspapers, and asked relevant departments to pay attention to follow-up research and sum up experience in time. After the Beijing News was officially released with the approval of the State General Administration of Press and Publication, people in the media circles all over the country rushed to tell stories and rejoiced. They seem to see that the spring of the media industry is coming.
Several officials in Beijing have personally questioned and used administrative power to intervene in the registration and approval of the Beijing News. This is really unprecedented. This is very unusual. The Beijing News must have been questioned by the most relevant and irrelevant leaders during the examination and approval process. Such a trivial matter as the renaming and revision of a tabloid has turned into a sexual and infighting administrative event, which fully shows how difficult it is to reform and how difficult it is for those who promote it. Everyone in the Beijing News should wake up. The Beijing News must do a good job. To win glory for those who promote reform, we must not add chaos and trouble to those who promote reform, let alone give some people an excuse to attack reform.
As a modern open society, government officials know a very simple truth: dealing with the relationship with the media is an important indicator to consider the government's self-confidence, tolerance, transparency and courage to accept public supervision; The government's tolerance for the media is directly proportional to the government's self-confidence, and the government's self-confidence is directly proportional to the government's achievements and work quality; What we should be wary of is that very few officials use the shield of political correctness to cover up their shame, do not act as officials, and are not afraid of paparazzi knocking at the door; Good and successful officials usually regard the media as the position and mouthpiece of public opinion, while bad and even problematic officials usually regard the media as a scourge; In the eyes of good officials, the media may be magpies, while in the eyes of evil officials, the media may be crows.
3. From the Beijing Times, which was stillborn, to the Beijing Daily, which was strangled as soon as it landed, and then to the Beijing News, which was reborn from the ashes, we experienced vicissitudes from birth and were born in the prime of life.
Many years later, when we suddenly look back, we will feel infinite and our hearts will be extremely rich. There are many differences in registration, and the ideal is the same. Fundamentally speaking, it doesn't matter what your name is! Time will soon prove that all unfriendly measures against us are unnecessary. As the first line in the movie Terminator 3 said, "Before I was born, someone tried to kill me." All the unfriendly measures against us are actually in vain. If someone forces us to be their terminator, then we will say to them like a terminator: "I will definitely come back!" " "Terminator end terminator, this is fate, the fact is that there is nowhere to escape.
Because there was a famous newspaper in the old China in history, our Beijing News, a new China, a new era and a new Beijing, is duty-bound to bear extraordinary practical significance. We in Beijing News are duty-bound to play a leading role in the newspaper industry in China and open up a new world for the weather-beaten newspaper industry in China.
Historically, Jinghua Daily was founded by Shao Piaoping, a famous progressive journalist and teacher in Mao Zedong, and was closed at 19 18 10.5, 1937 "July 7th Incident". Shao Piaoping's Beijing Daily, with the aim of "making the government obey the legitimate public opinion before it" and the policy of supervising the government, educating the people and awakening them, issued its own voice.
In China at that time, politics was dark, the government was corrupt, wars were raging, and people were in dire straits. Shao Piaoping was exiled for many times and was killed by warlord Zhang on April 26th, 1926. However, Beijing Daily is still famous all over the world, and a large number of intellectuals such as Shen Congwen, Lu Xun, Sun Fuyuan and Shi Pingmei have become the chief writers or editors of Beijing Daily. Beijing Daily, like a searchlight expanding its illumination range, has become one of the two famous newspapers in old China, illuminating the conscience of an era and standing side by side with the "Two Peaks Declaration".
The publication of The Beijing News is widely interpreted as a great re-publication. This is really a well-meaning and creative misunderstanding. Although I dare not steal the beauty of others, I can't forget my ancestors. As an ideal contemporary China reporter, while looking up to the peak of foreign newspapers such as The New York Times, we should also pay tribute to the rare newspaper tradition in Chinese history. The conscience of intellectuals has always been the cornerstone of the newspaper building; The backbone of intellectuals has always been the backbone of the newspaper building. The New York Times is like this, so is The Beijing News in history, and so should The Beijing News. Caring for the interests of the country and people, calling for rationality, checking and balancing administration, approaching the truth, pursuing beauty, defending justice and exposing ugliness-these are the universal and ultimate values of the media beyond the country and different social systems, which are also the values that the ruling party in China has always advocated, namely, "power is used by the people, feelings are tied to the people, and interests are sought by the people."
Responsible bosses and politicians all understand this truth: the newspaper industry is a link in the social ecological chain, which cannot be weak and indispensable. If there is no newspaper industry in the social ecological chain, it is like there are no birds singing in the Woods, no frogs croaking in the fields, no cats croaking in the house, and the ears are clean, but it is dead silence; Whether the newspaper industry in a region is prosperous or not is an important indicator to judge whether the social life in this region is normal and healthy. We must be alert to corrupt officials and quasi-corrupt officials who suppress the media in the name of "political correctness" and wrap up layers of fig leaf for the corruption and ugliness that have happened and will happen soon; Capitalism has natural and man-made disasters, and socialism also has natural and man-made disasters. Ugliness, contradictory crises and sudden disasters in real life will happen in any social system and will never be eliminated or slightly reduced because of the silence of the media. On the contrary, they will only get worse because of the silence of the media.
Fourthly, there are three ways to interpret the great significance of the current press and publication reform with the guidance of rectifying newspapers and periodicals:
First, stop the random apportionment of newspapers and periodicals and reduce the burden on rural areas and grass-roots units. This is the most publicized statement at present, and it is also the most acceptable and least controversial statement for most people. This statement is widely used by party and state leaders and also in documents and reports. There are two unconfirmed stories about this statement that are very interesting. There is a story about a leader who visited the postal distribution department of a city in the south and found bundles of expired newspapers piled up in the warehouse, and asked why. The person in charge of the postal distribution department said that these newspapers and periodicals were issued by compulsory subscription and apportionment, and the units and departments that were forced to apportion were unwilling to claim their newspapers and periodicals, saying that no one wanted them or read them. It was suggested that the postal distribution department should not waste that time and directly pull them to the waste collection station. Another story says that a leader recently visited a province in the northwest and said that news and public opinion should also support the development of the western region. Accompanied by provincial leaders, they made a request according to the situation, saying, then protect more newspapers and periodicals in our province and don't cut so much. The leader said it was not enough! Cutting down more newspapers and periodicals with compulsory distribution and administrative apportionment is the greatest support for the development of the western region!
Second, let the administrative power gradually withdraw from the general competition field and let the newspaper industry return to the market environment of fair competition. This is actually a principle grasped by the press and publication management department in administrative operation, a clear train of thought for the press and publication and cultural system reform, and the theoretical basis for this newspaper rectification. Full of deliberation and foresight.
Third, the press and publication reform is actually the forerunner of political civilization progress and political system reform, which is of great significance. However, in view of the sensitivity, complexity, many difficulties and great resistance of political system reform, the reform of press and publication, as the forerunner of political civilization progress and political system reform, just made no mention of it, and even deliberately dwarfed its significance. I can only say the second meaning at most, that is, the power gradually withdraws from the newspaper industry and introduces the market competition mechanism. Even just the first point, that is, to stop the indiscriminate apportionment of newspapers and reduce the burden on rural areas and grassroots.
The Beijing News really came into being, which shows that the reform of press and publication has achieved substantial results. The Beijing News is bound to become a landmark political event and a testing ground for the next stage of press and publication reform, which will have a positive impact on the process of China's political civilization and political system reform.