Guangming Daily

Guangming Daily
光明日报
	Front page of the first issue on 16 June 1949
Type	Daily newspaper
Format	Broadsheet
Owner(s)	Chinese Communist Party (1982–present); China Democratic League (1949–1982)
Founded	June 16, 1949
Political alignment	Chinese Communist Party
Language	Chinese
Headquarters	Beijing
ISSN	1002-3666
Website	www.gmw.cn

The Guangming Daily, also known as the Enlightenment Daily,^[1] is a national Chinese-language daily newspaper published in the People's Republic of China. It was established in 1949 as the official paper of the China Democratic League. Starting from 1982, it was run by the Chinese Communist Party (CCP), and was officially recognized as an institution directly under the Central Committee of the CCP from 1994.^[2] As one of China's "big three" newspapers during the Cultural Revolution, it played an important role in the political struggle between Hua Guofeng and the Gang of Four in 1976 and between Hua and Deng Xiaoping in 1978.

^ John King Fairbank; Denis Crispin Twitchett, eds. (1978). The Cambridge History of China: Volume 14. Cambridge University Press. p. 693. ISBN 978-0-521-24336-0.
^ 张宁. "传播光明的使者". Guangming Daily. Archived from the original on 11 August 2011. Retrieved 12 August 2011.