Founded in 1979, it is a large-scale comprehensive, academic and informational monthly digest magazine, an important publishing house of party and state political books after the birth of the People's Republic of China, known for its ideology, authority and academicity
Xinhua Digest is a large-scale comprehensive, academic and informational monthly digest sponsored by the People's Publishing House, which is unique in the journal industry for its ideological, authoritative, academic, informative, readable and searchable nature, and its selected articles represent the cutting-edge ideas in various fields. In 1979, with the strong support of Fan Yong, then vice president of the People's Publishing House, Xinhua Monthly Digest Edition was launched, renamed Xinhua Digest in 1981, revised to semi-monthly in 2004, and published in January 1999 in large-character edition.
Xinhua Digest was first published in January 1979. Over the past 25 years, along with the progress of China's reform and opening up, Xinhua Digest has presented readers with new achievements, new views, new materials and new information in politics, philosophy, economy, history, literature and art, characters and memories, culture, science and technology, reading and publishing, etc., and is unique in the journal industry with its ideology, authority, academicity, information, readability and searchability. She has made tremendous contributions to promoting the emancipation of the mind, flourishing academic research, promoting national culture, and popularizing scientific knowledge, and has won the favor and love of the vast number of readers, and has attracted the attention and trust of the ideological, academic, literary and artistic circles, and the entire intellectual circles. In the past 25 years, "Xinhua Digest" has caused many controversies, placed many hopes, and condensed many painstaking efforts and sweats; In the past 25 years, "Xinhua Digest" has had brilliance and twists and turns, but she keeps pace with the times and continues to mature.
In terms of the setting of columns, Xinhua Digest, which began to be revised into a semi-monthly magazine in 2004, includes more and more scientific columns than before. Politics, Xinhua Observation, Philosophy, Economy, History, Literary and Artistic Works, Pages of Fine Arts and Comics, Literary and Art Criticism, Characters and Memories, Education, Science and Technology, Reading and Media, and Excerpts of Arguments are the 13 columns set up in the first and second half of the month, while the columns of Law, Culture, Management and Society, Foreign Social Sciences, and Academic Dynamics are the columns that appear alternately in the first and second half of the month.
From the perspective of editorial methods, the revised Xinhua Digest is particularly good at using different article combinations such as "special topics", "related links" and "retrospective articles" to present readers with the multifaceted nature of an academic or ideological issue. "Special topics" generally consist of at least two or more articles from more than two sources, and the name of the "topic" is generally drafted by the editors of the editorial department of Xinhua Digest. "Related Links" are basically purposeful and selective excerpts of background knowledge, feedback, and data indexes around the central topic to supplement the selected articles. "Retrospective articles" extend from the selection of current articles to the reprinting of classic articles in the past, reflecting the continuity and depth of academic research in the form of old articles and new abstracts.
In short, in essence, Xinhua Digest takes the different settings of columns and the different use of editing methods as the performance characteristics of the content structure, which embodies the disciplinary consciousness and innovation consciousness of the editors, and ultimately reflects the unique value of Xinhua Digest.
