Beijing Daily Client | Reporter Zhao Yuhan
gene is a unique mark and symbol carried by every organism since its birth. The birth and development of a newspaper also reflects the powerful power of "genes". "Beijing Daily " was brewing on the eve of the liberation of Peking and was officially born in the joy of the founding of New China and the test of everything waiting to be renovated. The red color of this newspaper born for the Party is the brightest background.
founding the original intention of
0 biological genes inherited from parents and grandparents; the gene inheritance of Beijing Daily can also be explored from the predecessor of this newspaper.
In the middle of winter of 1948, hundreds of thousands of People's Liberation Army were waiting for the battle outside the city of Peking 2. The Central Committee of the Communist Party of China is ready to take over Peking at any time, and it is also planning to establish the municipal party committee official newspaper in Peking, named "People's Daily (Beiping Edition). And this is one of the predecessors of Beijing Daily.
was born for the Party and firmly conveying the voice of the Party. It is the most distinctive genetic chain left by the People's Daily (Beijing Edition) in the bones and blood of Beijing Daily.
As the first newspaper published by the Communist Party of China after the rule of Peking, the People's Daily (Beiping Edition) was officially published on February 2, 1949. In the most prominent position of the first issue of , Chairman Mao Zedong published the "Statement on the Current Situation" and also published the results of the People's Liberation Army in the past two and a half years.
On March 15, 1949, as North China " People's Daily " began to be published in Peking, the North China Bureau of the CPC Central Committee and the Beiping Municipal Committee decided that the People's Daily (Beiping Edition) will no longer be published. On the same day, the People's Daily (Beiping Edition) was renamed "Beiping Jiefang Daily". This newspaper became another predecessor of Beijing Daily and also left a new genetic symbol for Beijing Daily.
Compared with the People's Daily (Beiping Edition), the biggest feature of the Beiping Jiefang Daily is that it is both serious and lively, which not only promotes the Party's major decisions and the development of the current situation, but also reflects the needs and new things in the daily life of urban people. Some original news sources in the Peking University were surprised to see this newspaper: "I thought the Communist Party would only hold a 'political newspaper' with a strong political nature and a strong propaganda flavor, and faced the readers with a stern face, but unexpectedly, the Communist Party would also hold a 'metropolitical tabloid', and would produce such a beautiful and lively newspaper so quickly."
On July 17, 1949, with the victory of the War of Liberation, the southwestern provinces needed to equip news cadres. The Beiping Municipal Committee focused on the overall situation and allocated a group of talents to the southwest, so the Beiping Liberation Daily was suspended, and the People's Daily temporarily replaced it with the Beiping News Column and comments about Peiping.
After that, the " Xinmin Daily ", founded by famous newspapers Chen Mingde and Deng Jixing , became the only local newspaper published and distributed in Peking at that time. Until 1950, the Municipal Party Committee decided to establish an official newspaper, which was originally named " Beijing Evening News ". In March 1952, the Beijing Municipal Government acquired the Xinmin Daily, and the newspaper being prepared was also renamed from the Beijing Evening News to Beijing Daily.
Beijing Daily’s first issue number
On October 1, 1952, Beijing Daily was officially founded. Deputy Director of the Propaganda Department of the Beijing Municipal Party Committee Fan Jin serves as president, and Vice President Zhou You serves as editor-in-chief. On this historically significant inauguration issue, the "founding term" of Beijing Daily, located at the bottom of the front page, clearly expresses the original intention and mission of Beijing Daily:
—The Beijing Daily is a newspaper of the people of Beijing. It is a newspaper under the leadership of the Beijing Municipal Committee of the Communist Party of China and the Beijing Municipal People's Government under the leadership of of the Beijing Municipal Committee of the Communist Party of China and Beijing Municipal People's Government. It will systematically publicize the principles and policies of the Party and the people's government, report on the political, economic, cultural, municipal construction, and especially production construction of the people, reflect the opinions and requirements of the people, collect and disseminate advanced experience in production and construction and various work, use the weapons of criticism and self-criticism, praise achievements and advantages, and criticize mistakes and shortcomings.
- In order to perform the above tasks, Beijing Daily not only relies on newspaper staff to connect with the masses and penetrate into the work and life of the masses, but also must rely on the vast number of Beijing people, especially workers, farmers, teachers, students and agency staff to participate in the work of the newspaper: supplying materials, writing articles, giving opinions, organizing reading and criticism of the newspaper, and truly achieving "the whole party runs the newspaper" and "the whole city runs the newspaper".
—Under the leadership of the Party and the people’s government, Beijing Daily will surely establish a close and consolidated ties with the people of Beijing, so that it can assume the task of collective propagandists and organizers in the future construction of the capital.
The founding of Beijing Daily ended the status of the municipal party committee that has not been publicly issued for more than three years since the closure of the publication of the Beiping Jiefang Daily.
On November 8, 1952, one month and eight days after the founding of the Beijing Daily, the newspaper moved to the office of East Chang'an Street (now the east of Oriental Plaza ).
On August 12, 1956, the Beijing Daily site moved to No. 3 Maxun Hutong (later No. 23 Xidiao Hutong).
Chairman Mao wrote the header three times
If you look back at the newspaper layout over the past 70 years from the historical newspaper library of Beijing Daily, careful readers will see that the header text of the "Beijing Daily" from October 1, 1964 to the present is obviously different from the previous header. Behind this is the story of Chairman Mao Zedong writing the headlines for the Beijing Daily three times.
On April 14, 1952, Beijing Municipal Party Secretary Peng Zhen was in another place, and Zhou You, Director of the Information Department of the Municipal Government, wrote a letter to Peng Zhen on the founding of the newspaper, expressing his hope that Peng Zhen would forward Chairman Mao Zedong's request to write a header for Beijing Daily.
htmlOn April 15, Peng Zhen issued an instruction on the publication of the Beijing Daily in Zhou You’s letter. The instructions said: "You can ask the Chairman to write the newspaper header" and asked the preparatory staff to consider the publication date by themselves. htmlOn May 24, Beijing Daily wrote a letter to Chairman Mao Zedong, requesting the inscription to write the newspaper header. A letter with few words carries the deep gratitude and high respect of all comrades in Beijing Daily to Chairman Mao. The letter reads: "Beijing Daily is about to be launched on June 1. When Comrade Peng Zhen told us that the Chairman had allowed us to write the four words "Beijing Daily", all the comrades in the newspaper were excited and excited. We all made up our minds to run the Beijing Party newspaper well to repay the party's care for the newspaper."Since the original plan was launched on June 1, the letter expressed his desire to ask Chairman Mao to take the initiative to write the newspaper header for the newspaper in his busy schedule. "If possible, I hope that the question will be done before May 27." On the day of receiving the letter, Chairman Mao Zedong wrote the newspaper header for the Beijing Daily.
html At the end of August, Fan Jin, then deputy director of the Propaganda Department of the Tianjin Municipal Party Committee and editor-in-chief of Tianjin Daily , was transferred to Beijing Daily to preside over the preparations for the Beijing Daily with Zhou You. As the conditions for founding the publication became more and more mature, Beijing Daily was finally founded on October 1, 1952, and used the newspaper header written by Chairman Mao. The header ofhas been used by Beijing Daily for more than ten years. Why did it change to a new header in 1964? It turned out that on July 29, 1964, Chairman Mao wrote a handwritten letter to Fan Jin: "Comrade Fan Jin: The header of the Beijing Daily is not good, so it should be replaced again. I have written two pictures now. I don't know if it is available? If it is not available, return it and rewrite it. If you think it is available, it is appropriate to change it on National Day."
Mao Zedong's handwritten letter to Fan Jin
After receiving the letter, Fan Jin wrote a report to Chairman Mao on August 28, 1964, preparing to change the new header written by Chairman Mao for the Beijing Daily on National Day. At the same time, Fan Jin also accompanied a "small request" to ask Chairman Mao to write a newspaper for the Beijing Evening News.
On September 25, 1964, Chairman Mao sent Fan Jin a header for the Beijing Daily and Beijing Evening News, and in a letter from Fan Jin on August 28, he wrote: "Comrade Fan Jin: I wrote a picture (note: refers to the newly written Beijing Evening News header). I wonder if it is available? One or two of the four characters written in Beijing Daily seem to be poorly written. Now I have another one for you to choose.If you feel that it is inappropriate, please write it in the original form. ”
On October 1, 1964 Beijing Daily changed its new header
Therefore, Beijing Daily used the new header written by Chairman Mao on October 1, 1964. On the same day, Beijing Evening News also changed to the new header written by Chairman Mao and has been used to this day.
The whole party newspaper, the whole city newspaper,
Comrade Li Zhijian, who served as deputy director of the Ministry of Industry and Commerce, director of the Commentary Department, and deputy editor-in-chief of the Beijing Daily. Later, he served as member of the Standing Committee of the Beijing Municipal Party Committee and Minister of the Propaganda Department, wrote an article on the 60th anniversary of the founding of the Beijing Daily that people not only have biological genes, but also social genes. His many interviews with Beijing Daily supplemented him with the social genes of "grateful, overcome difficulties, and do more for the hard-working people."
and Beijing Daily The "Red Social Gene" is also accompanied by its founding and growth, and is filled with blood step by step.
On the afternoon of October 16, 1952, Xu Wen, who was the president of Beijing Railway Branch, received a notice from the municipal party committee and attended a meeting that deeply remembered him.
meeting was held at 1, Dongjiaomin Lane, . This is the case. At that time, the main responsible persons of the Municipal Party Committee worked. When they arrived at the venue, Xu Wen found that most of the attendees were directly affiliated units of the Municipal Party Committee and Municipal Government and heads of various districts and bureaus. Soon, comrades Peng Zhen, Liao Mosha, Fan Jin and others came. It turned out that this was a special meeting to discuss how to hold a good Beijing Daily. At that time, Beijing Daily had just been in the publication for half a month.
"After the newspaper was founded, there were few manuscripts and long articles, and they were poor in locality, so they were separated from the masses. Now sometimes I only receive a few articles a day. "At the beginning of the meeting, President Fan Jin made a straightforward move in the report and directly revealed the difficulties encountered since the founding of the Beijing Daily.
Then, Peng Zhen said: "The Beijing Daily has been in the publication for half a month. The main disadvantages are empty content, fragmented information, and lack of center. The important reason is that we, the "big masters" and "second masters" (meaning the heads of the city and district) do not take responsibility. "As a result, he humorously put forward the slogan "The 'Master' is responsible, and the whole party runs newspapers." "Handling newspapers cannot be like watching a show: it's not good here, it's not good there, it's just a problem." "Peng Zhen said bluntly, "Chairman Mao often revised manuscripts and wrote editorials in person when he was Yan'an . When I first entered the city, Zhao Zhensheng and I (formerly the second deputy secretary of the municipal party committee, namely Comrade Li Baohua) also revised the manuscripts themselves every night. Why is this? Because leaders know the central work best and the policies are the best, they can ensure that the principles and content are lively and lively by writing and reading manuscripts. "
It was this meeting that once again implemented the "whole party runs newspapers" and "whole city runs newspapers" proposed in the founding speech of Beijing Daily. In Xu Wen's view, the meeting gave the participants a lot of education and also created a new situation in the communication organization work of Beijing Daily. From this, a long and fine tradition of the municipal party committee and government attaching importance to the leadership of newspapers, and the various committees, bureaus, districts and counties cooperate closely with newspapers.
In fact, the municipal party committee and government have always cared about " The growth and development of Beijing Daily. On April 9, 1955, the General Office of the Municipal Party Committee issued the "Resolution of the Beijing Municipal Party Committee on Improving the Work of Beijing Daily" (draft), which put forward specific requirements and measures on how Beijing Daily can further implement the "whole party newspapers" and "whole city newspapers": For example, "the attitude and view of criticism must be correct, and we must strictly follow the principles of the Party, the resolutions of the Central Committee and the intentions of the Party Committee, and be realistic." "When the Municipal Party Committee arranges important work, it must also arrange the publicity work of Beijing Daily. The Municipal Party Committee discusses the work of Beijing Daily every year and discusses the Beijing Daily publicity plan every quarter.”
is the bright background that melts in the blood. In the subsequent development process, Beijing Daily will always keep in mind its original intention, adhere to the responsibilities and missions of the Party newspaper, strictly require the team of editors and editors with the awareness of "politicians running newspapers", publicize the Party's policies and guidelines, promote the construction and development of the capital, and serve the people of the capital.
