Party Urges Media to Focus on Reforms
China’s Communist Party, amid signs that reformist leaders are winning a struggle with hard-liners, has asked the press to devote more space to reform and less to attacks on capitalist trends, an official news report said Saturday.
The dispatch by the China News Service was the first official comment on what foreign and Chinese observers have seen as a recent change in the tone of newspaper editorials following five months of bitter criticism of Western trends.
“Since one month ago, reform and opening to the outside world has once more become a major topic in the press,” said the state-run news agency, aimed primarily at overseas newspapers.
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