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Qilu Evening News
Chinese daily broadsheet newspaper
The Qilu Evening News (simplified Chinese: 齐鲁晚报; traditional Chinese: 齊魯晚報; pinyin: Qílǔ Wǎnbào), based in Jinan, Shandong Province, People's Republic of China, is a daily broadsheet newspaper. It is one of the most circulated newspapers in the world according to China Daily;[2][3] the newspaper has a circulation of 1.67 million, making it the fifth most widely circulated daily newspaper in China.[1]
The Qilu Evening News was founded on 1 January 1988, and its masthead (logo in the case of the online edition) was written in Chinese calligraphy by former paramount leader Deng Xiaoping.[1] It is currently published by Dazhong Press Group (Chinese: 大众报业集团), which as of 2011 published eleven other Chinese newspapers.[1] According to the company's official biography, its brand was worth 2.896 billion yuan (US$0.45 billion) in 2011.[4]