China’s GAPP Reforms Publishers and Newspapers

In an interview with China Central Television (CCTV), Li Dongdong, Vice Chief of General Administration of Press and Publication (GAPP), discussed media reform. He said all of the country’s 580 publishers have finished the reform. Within three years, GAPP is to transform the 1,943 newspapers and 9,821 periodicals through merger, restructuring, and suspension.