The Economic Daily (Chinese: 经济日报)[1] is a Chinese state-owned newspaper focusing on economic reports.[2] Founded in Beijing on January 1, 1983,[3] the newspaper is a deputy ministerial-level institution under the State Council.[2] The newspaper is managed by the Central Propaganda Department of the Chinese Communist Party.[2]
History
In 1984, Deng Xiaoping wrote an inscription for the Economic Daily.[4]
In October 2020, the United States Department of State designated the Economic Daily as a foreign mission of China.[5][6]
Hoax
On January 28, 1993, Economic Daily published an article entitled Can Water Really Become Gasoline? —— A Record of Private Entrepreneur Wang Hongcheng and His Invention (水真能变成油吗?——记民营企业家王洪成与他的发明).[7] The article, written by Economic Daily reporters Wu Hongbo (吴红博) and Liu Donghua (刘东华),[8] praised the "invention" of Wang Hongcheng (王洪成) for transforming water into gasoline as "China's fifth greatest invention" (中国第五大发明) after the traditional Four Great Inventions.[9][10] However, the water-to-gasoline technology (水变油技术) was later deemed a hoax and pseudoscience,[11] and in 1998, its initiator, Wang Hongcheng, was sentenced to 10 years in prison.[12]
References
- ^ "要闻". The Paper. Retrieved 2022-07-10.
- ^ a b c "《经济日报》". China Daily. Archived from the original on 2020-08-13. Retrieved 2022-07-10.
- ^ China Publishing Yearbook, Volume 2008. Commercial Press. 2008. pp. 620–.
- ^ "经济日报". Embassy of the People's Republic of China in the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland. Archived from the original on 2022-07-10. Retrieved 2022-07-10.
- ^ "Pompeo says U.S. designates six more Chinese media firms as foreign missions". Reuters. 2020-10-21. Retrieved 2020-10-21.
- ^ "Designation of Additional PRC Propaganda Outlets as Foreign Missions". U.S. Department of State. Archived from the original on 21 October 2020. Retrieved 21 October 2020.
- ^ Yu Qiao; Yang Zi (1993). China Under the Rampage. Sichuan University Press. pp. 248–. ISBN 978-7-5614-0836-0.
- ^ Liu Huajie (2004). Chinese Science: From the Perspective of Philosophy and Sociology. Shanghai Jiao Tong University Press. ISBN 978-7-313-03597-4.
- ^ "China's Fifth Greatest Invention After the Establishment of the Chinese Communist Party Is Actually a Hoax". Duowei News. 2016-08-31.
- ^ "A Chinese farce that lasted more than ten years". Duowei News. 2019-04-27.
- ^ "Originating from the Great Leap Forward and the Cultural Revolution, Hawking's enemies in China". Duowei News. 2016-04-14.
- ^ Weiping Sun; Mingcang Zhang (25 August 2015). The "New Culture": From a Modern Perspective. Springer. pp. 118–. ISBN 978-3-662-48011-3.
