An on-the-spot meeting was held Friday in Shanghai by the Publicity Department of the Communist Party of China (CPC) and the State Post Bureau, aiming to promote sales of CPC-published newspapers.

According to the meeting, a series of newspapers published by the CPC's departments, such as People's Daily, have been put on ordinary newsstands nationwide since June in an effort to intensify Party newspapers' influence in society and to further spread advanced culture.

Previously, CPC-published newspapers were only issued within the Party and the state-owned units.

The meeting required the CPC publicity departments at all levels and postal bureaus at different places to do their best to promote the sales of Party-published newspapers.

Participants to the meeting held that joining market competition will help journalists and editors better understand ordinary Chinese people's opinions and requirements for Party-published newspapers and force journalists to further go down to the grass-roots life and write articles close to ordinary people'slives.

Source: Xinhua