Tibet Daily
| Type | Daily |
|---|---|
| Owner(s) | CCP Tibet Autonomous Region Committee |
| Founded | April 22, 1956 |
| Language | Chinese, Tibetan |
| Headquarters | Lhasa, Tibet Autonomous Region |
| Website | Official Website |
The Tibet Daily (Chinese: 《西藏日报》 བོད་ལྗོངས་ཉིན་རེའི་ཚགས་པར།) was launched on April 22, 1956, the first daily newspaper in the history of Tibet. The newspaper is headquartered at No. 36 Dosenger Road, Lhasa.
History
[edit]In the fall of 1951, after the People's Liberation Army entered Lhasa, the oil-printed tabloid Xinhua Telegraph (Chinese: 《新华电讯》) was established, which was changed to a Tibetan and Chinese version of News Brief (Chinese: 《新闻电讯》) in the following year, and began to publish local news.[1] After the peaceful liberation of Tibet, the Preparatory Committee for the Tibet Autonomous Region was established. At that time, the CCP Tibet Work Committee decided to organize a newspaper that was both a CCP party newspaper and the organ of the Preparatory Committee for the Autonomous Region on the basis of the News Brief.[2]
On April 22, 1956, the Tibet Daily was launched. In February 1955, the CPC Tibet Work Committee reported to the Central Committee of the Chinese Communist Party its views on the founding of the newspaper. In March 1955, the CCP Central Committee replied to the CCP Tibet Work Committee and agreed to set up the newspaper.[3] In October 1955, Zhang Jingwu, the representative of the Central People's Government in Tibet, asked Chairman Mao Zedong for instructions on the establishment of a large-scale newspaper in Tibet that would be written in both Tibetan and Chinese, and asked for the inscription of the newspaper's masthead.[4] Mao Zedong instructed that "When running a newspaper in a minority area, the first thing to do should be to run a newspaper in the minority script." "Tibet, unlike Qinghai, should not have a combined Tibetan and Chinese language edition, but a Tibetan language newspaper. What name to use for the newspaper and how to run it should be discussed with the Tibetan localities and decided by them; we should not do it all."[5][4]
On February 18, 1956, the CPC Tibet Work Committee made a decision on the founding of the Tibet Daily, and on March 7, 1956, the Party Group and Editorial Committee of the newspaper were established. During the 1959 Tibetan uprising, the CPC Tibet Work Committee was concerned about the safety of the newspaper, and ordered it to move to the north side of the compound of the Tibet Military Region, and at the same time received and escorted Kaxue Dondrub Tsetsujang, Geshe Tsetsuza and other upper-level pro-Chinese people to move into the new site.[6] Inside and outside the building to repair bunkers, dig trenches, sandbags, fortifications, wells, stored enough food and fuel for several months. Newspaper and Xinhua Branch formed a militia company, Lu Shuangxin (Chinese: 陆双欣) responsible for, Zhang Dengxing (Chinese: 张登兴) as company commander, the company a total of more than 60 armed militiamen. On March 20, more than a hundred Tibetans ran from the Ramoche Temple to the newspaper and launched an attack on the militiamen, the attacks were repelled.[7][8]
In August 1965, Mao Zedong inscribed the masthead of the Tibet Daily.[9]
References
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- ^ 西藏自治区党史资料征集委员会; 西藏军区党史资料征集领导小组 (1995). 平息西藏叛乱. 中共西藏党史资料丛书 (in Chinese). 西藏人民出版社. p. 28. ISBN 978-7-223-00883-9. Retrieved 2024-08-18.
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