Hong Kong Ta Kung Wen Wei Media Group has various time-honored newspapers, including Ta Kung Pao and Wen Wei Po, as well as their corresponding web pages and social media platforms. As a patriotic Omnimedia flagship with wide-ranging production and all-platform coverage, the Group is a media organization with one of the largest circulations of daily newspapers in Hong Kong. The Group has ranked first in the Newspaper Society of Hong Kong’s Best News Awards for seven consecutive years in terms of the total number of awards and championships won by the Group’s three newspapers.
Chinese President Xi Jinping attaches great importance to the development of the Group. On June 12, 2022, on the 120th anniversary of the founding of Ta Kung Pao, President Xi sent a congratulatory letter fully recognizing the important role played by Ta Kung Pao in different historical periods and especially its outstanding contribution to the new era and put forward his ardent expectation that the Group will “Carry forward the patriotic tradition, strive for innovation and development, and continuously expand its dissemination and influence.”
On September 1st, 2013, on the 65th anniversary of the founding of Wen Wei Po, President Xi also sent a congratulatory letter highly praising the newspaper for its outstanding achievements in supporting the SAR government’s administration by the law, enhancing mutual understanding between Hong Kong and the Chinese mainland, and promoting Chinese culture to overseas Chinese around the globe.
The Group is actively implementing the spirit of President Xi’s congratulatory letters, vigorously promoting the development of media integration. In addition to enhancing its influence in the local public opinion arena, the Group endeavors to build three major platforms:
First, an overseas communication platform. The Group has initiated the establishment of the Overseas Chinese Media Cooperation Organization, which integrates more than 100 overseas Chinese media worldwide. Leveraging on Hong Kong’s unique advantages, the Group publishes the overseas editions of Ta Kung Pao and Wen Wei Po in 17 countries and regions, with an average daily circulation of 2 million copies. The Group also utilizes the TKWW Cross-Media Matrix and Hong Kong and international influencers to tell the stories of the successful implementation of “one country, two systems” in languages spanning Chinese, English, Japanese, and Arabic on social media outside Hong Kong, such as Facebook and X (Twitter), to disseminate Chinese stories.
Second, a comprehensive “Media + Governance, Business, and Services” platform. The Group has set up a public opinion monitoring center to provide government departments, business organizations, and social groups with customized services based on public opinion information. A think tank has also been established to provide decision-making bodies and target groups with research reports, public opinion analyses, and policy suggestions. The Ta Kung Wen Wei International Communication Center has been set up in the Greater Bay Area, catering to the needs of government departments at all levels and large-scale enterprises on the Chinese mainland for the building of international communication capacity, monitoring of foreign-related public opinion, promotion of overseas brands, economic and trade cooperation as well as cultural exchanges. In addition, authoritative organizations such as the Hong Kong International ESG Alliance and the Hong Kong ESG Research Institute have been founded to publish professional reports, lists, and indexes and organize forums and activities.
Third, a platform for youth exchanges. Leveraging its media expertise and resources, the Group continues to organize signature youth activities such as the “Fan Changjiang Reporting Scheme,” “Future Star,” and “National Knowledge Contest for Hong Kong Youth.” Besides, the Group organizes a large number of Hong Kong youths to return to the mainland each year to learn more about their motherland, while actively hosting study tours and exchange visits for mainland university and secondary school students to Hong Kong, thereby promoting a deeper mutual understanding between young people of the two places.
The Group publishes three newspapers, namely Ta Kung Pao, an authoritative newspaper targeting the political, business, intellectual and professional sectors; Wen Wei Po, a humanistic newspaper targeting the general public; and Lion Rock Daily, a free newspaper targeting the grassroots citizens, in particular the grassroots young readers.
Founded on June 17, 1902, in Tianjin and published in Hong Kong since 1938, Ta Kung Pao is the world’s oldest active Chinese language newspaper. The 120th anniversary of the founding of Ta Kung Pao was celebrated in 2022. In a congratulatory letter, President Xi Jinping personally recognized the newspaper’s work and contribution, and expressed his hopes that it will continue to carry forward its patriotic tradition, strive for innovation and development, and expand its influence, so as to write an even more exciting chapter in the practice of “one country, two systems” and the great rejuvenation of the Chinese nation.
Ta Kung Pao focuses on political, economic and cultural news as well as political and economic commentaries. Its supplement maintains its usual emphasis on informativeness and originality, which makes it stand out among the Hong Kong press. The constant flow of well-crafted feature stories behind the news is another important reason why Ta Kung Pao has been readers’ choice over the years.
Wen Wei Po was founded in Hong Kong on September 9, 1948, with the keynote of patriotism and love for Hong Kong, and the purpose of spreading the truth and revitalizing the country. The 65th anniversary of the founding of Wen Wei Po was reached in 2013. In a congratulatory letter, President Xi Jinping praised the newspaper’s endeavors in supporting the SAR government’s administration in accordance with the law, promoting mutual understanding between Hong Kong and the mainland, and spreading Chinese culture among overseas Chinese around the globe.
Besides focusing on political news, Wen Wei Po also strives to present to its readers stories that are close to the public, setting up a number of interactive columns to better serve its readers. With a clear stance and a focus on the hottest topics of interest to society, its editorials are highly valued by various sectors of Hong Kong society and the SAR government. The number of reposts and citations by Hong Kong’s electronic media is consistently among the highest of Hong Kong’s newspapers.
Founded on April 9, 2018, the Lion Rock Daily is a free newspaper for the general public, especially grassroots young readers. It focuses on social, economic and civic news of interest to the grassroots, as well as providing practical information on consumption, tourism, technology, e-sports and healthcare. Its content strives to be “entertaining, eye-opening and problem-solving”.
In addition, the newspaper has also been a positive voice on major political issues, playing a leading role in Hong Kong’s free newspaper market.
In 2016, the Group responded to the trend in media reforms and explored media integration by setting up an omnimedia news center, realizing full coverage of communication platforms, omnimedia production and the full integration of the Group’s media, with the number of active users and visitor traffic ranking steadily at the top of the new media industry in Hong Kong.
The Group has built its own various online platforms, the corresponding webpages of the three newspapers and the bilingual new media site dotdotnews.com and three mobile apps. The Group has also expansively set up accounts on third-party social media platforms, including Facebook, X, YouTube, Instagram, Weibo, WeChat, Bilibili, Douyin, TikTok, MeWe, Quora, etc., with 15 million subscribers and over 10 million average daily views, forming an all-media dissemination pattern. Meanwhile, relying on the Central Kitchen Intelligent Media System, the Group has established a news gathering and editing mode featuring unified command, integrated operation and diversified dissemination, realizing real-time processing and issuance of news and information, as well as cross-media production of original content spanning videos, livestreams, real-time stories, animated cartoons, commentaries, posters, and H5 pages, etc.
Currently, the Group produces hundreds of new media products every day, which are not only distributed through its own platforms, but also in the matrix of more than 100 social media accounts, boasting wide influence and spread among the audiences in the Chinese mainland, Hong Kong, Macao, Taiwan and overseas.
The Group’s news gathering and distribution network covers Hong Kong, the mainland and overseas. Ta Kung Pao and Hong Kong Wen Wei Po as well as their e-newspapers are distributed to nearly 90 percent of primary and secondary schools in Hong Kong, as well as all newspaper stalls, convenience stores, major neighborhoods, housing estates, the eight tertiary education institutions, major libraries, VIP airport lounges and Hong Kong-Beijing flights, with an average daily circulation of more than 200,000 copies. The Group has set up press centers and reporter stations in first-tier cities on the mainland such as Beijing, Guangzhou, Shenzhen and Shanghai, as well as in the Macao SAR, with a news gathering and distribution network covering the whole territory of the mainland. The Group has also set up a special printing office in Beijing to launch high-end distribution, with Ta Kung Pao and Wen Wei Po delivered directly to the central organs of the party, government and military every day. The Group also publishes 37 overseas editions in the United States, Canada, France, South Africa, Malaysia, Indonesia, the Philippines, South Korea and Australia, as well as in Taiwan region and other areas, with a circulation of nearly 2 million copies per issue and readers across five continents.
