Documents / FOIA release
This Central Intelligence Agency JPRS report dated 11 March 1991 translates a XINHUA Domestic Service item from Beijing on Chinese magazine circulation. It says circulation rose after the anti-pornography, curtailment and rectification campaigns, and it gives figures for party magazines, digests and general interest titles, including FEIDIE TANSUO (Probing the Secrets of Flying Saucers) at 300,000 copies, up 60,000. A China Press and Publications Administration official credits closed distribution channels for bad magazines and a national periodicals exhibition.
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# Concatenated JPRS Reports, 1991 ## Document 1 of 10 thanks to efforts to improve and rectify the magazine market, which resulted in magazines continuously trying to win over readers by presenting healthy, forward-looking, colorful, and realistic content. 6. - The national exhibition of periodicals held in Beijing in September last year and award-giving activities for excellent periodicals helped tighten the ties between magazines and their readers and provided opportunities for the trade to learn from each other by exchanging their opinions. 7. As a result, many magazines made marked improvements in aspects ranging from content, covers, and layout, to print quality. As the party's ideological and organizational construction is being continuously strengthened and its ideological and political work deepened, the demand for party magazines in society has increased correspondingly. With social, political and economic progress, people's needs in cultural affairs tend to develop in multiple orientations. Therefore, digests and collected works with ample, informative, and pleasing contents, as well as magazines with general interests in culture and life are in line with this trend. Another factor for the increase of magazine circulation is smooth distribution channels.
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FOIA release, from the cia-readingroom collection. The PDF is mirrored here; the original link is above. The text was read from the page images by GLM-OCR; expect the odd misread word. 2 pages are in the text index: search them above, or from the library's search.