Banyuetan
| Categories | Politics |
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| Frequency | 10th and 25th of each month |
| First issue | 1980 |
| Country | China |
| Based in | Beijing |
| Website | www |
| ISSN | 1002-7335 |
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| Simplified Chinese | 半月谈 | ||||||
| Traditional Chinese | 半月談 | ||||||
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Banyuetan is a journal affiliated with Xinhua News Agency, and its bi-monthly edition is published on the 10th and 25th of each month.[1][2]
In addition to Banyuetan (a semi-monthly magazine), the publications under the Banyetuan magazine also include Banyuetan Internal Edition (a monthly magazine, publicly distributed, not an internal reference), Current Affairs Information Handbook (a bi-monthly magazine), Pin Du (a monthly magazine), Uyghur and Tibetan versions of Banyuetan, Banyuetan website, Banyuetan online school, and Banyuetan public opinion survey center.
History
On May 10, 1980, Xinhua News Agency, entrusted by the Publicity Department of the Chinese Communist Party, launched the semi-monthly magazine Banyuetan (Semi-Monthly Talk) in Beijing. The magazine was 32mo in size, 64 pages, and was printed and distributed simultaneously in Changchun, Jinan, Hefei, Nanjing, Shanghai, Fuzhou, Wuhan, Changsha, Chongqing, Kunming, Xi'an, Zhengzhou, and Ürümqi, in addition to Beijing. The initial motivation for launching Banyuetan was based on the Publicity Department's new requirements for Xinhua News Agency to strengthen the CCP's ideological and political work in the era of reform and opening up, necessitating the creation of a new type of Party journal specifically targeting grassroots groups.[3]
In 1985, the circulation of Banyuetan reached 3.6 million, making it one of the largest-circulation current affairs periodicals in mainland China. After Deng Xiaoping's southern tour in 1992, Banyuetan was further revised and became one of the first CCP propaganda journals to be marketized. It was also used by the CCP as an important propaganda media during the reform and opening-up period. In 2009, Banyuetan was selected by the China World Records Association as the political journal with the largest circulation in China.[4][5]
References
- ^ "China grapples with how to teach children to use AI, and how to use it ethically". South China Morning Post. 2025-02-25. Retrieved 2025-11-04.
- ^ "When good intentions fail: The rise and fall of China's community canteens". ThinkChina - Big Reads, Opinions & Columns on China. Lianhe Zaobao. Retrieved 2025-11-04.
- ^ Patapan, Haig; Wang, Yi (2 January 2018). "The Hidden Ruler: Wang Huning and the Making of Contemporary China". Journal of Contemporary China. 27 (109): 47–60. doi:10.1080/10670564.2017.1363018. hdl:10072/348664. ISSN 1067-0564. S2CID 149415653.
- ^ "杨百胜：政治体制改革的法治化路径怎么走？ - 网友杂谈 - 红歌会网". www.szhgh.com. Retrieved 2021-02-23.
- ^ 孔德明. "半月谈的根，是这么扎到基层的！". www.banyuetan.org. Archived from the original on 2020-08-10. Retrieved 2021-02-23.