Compare Guangzhou Morning Post With Chengdu Weekly

The history of the English newspaper in China could be retrospected to the 19th century. At that time, the appearance of the Enlgish newspape predicted the commencement and continuance. Some treaty ports and the cities that the conomy were advanced had English newspaper. After the establishment of the People's Republic of China, the English newspaper and magzines in the mainland of China stopped publication in succession. The leading style of newspaper in China was party newspaper, and there wasn't a piece English newspaper in the long time. After the reform and opening-up, some big cities in the mainland had originated the English newpaper, and the sorts of the English newspaper were more and more. The effect of propagandizing China was bigger and bigger. We can draw a conclusion from the history of the English newspaper. When the eastern culture and western culture exchanged very frequently, the periord was the golden time of the development. The birthplaces of the English newspaper were the cities where there were a lot of foreign people and advanced economy. This point accorded with the present situation of the English newspaper.The main cities in the mainland had originated a lot of English newspaper from the publication of China Daily in Beijing, 1981. The chief cause was that the degree of opening was increasing deeply. These English newspapers included: China Daily, Shanghai Daily, Shanghai Star, Beijing Today, Guangzhou Morning Post, Shenzhen Daily, Chengdu Weekly and etc. The paper had chosen two pieces of newspaper, Guangzhou Morning Post and Chengdu Weekly, to compare and research them through deeply interview and documents analysis and summarize their local characteristics. And ing the orther hand, the paper summarized their advantage and disadvantage and reaction to Guangzhou and Chengdu through their content, block print, issue and advertisment.Guangzhou Morning Post: Its advantage includes plentiful content, plentifulpicture news, bi-language arrangement, language tips, language skill special column and the close relationship with reader. Its disadvantage includes too much description of murder and obscene detail, too little news interviewed by its reporters.Chengdu Weekly: Its advantage includes a better foreign person as it's the first reader, strongly local characteristics, successful public relationship movement, a lot of information about foreign capital interprises and treaval resource around Chengdu and neighbouring region. Its disadvantage includes too narrow content, too little news interviewed by its reporters, no stress in block print, operation by sbusidy, not famous in foreign people in Chengdu and not wide issue range.