1. Spreading democracy, freedom, progress and science and technology in the West has promoted the awakening of advanced intellectuals in China. The commercial and economic information they published was used by the new China bourgeoisie, and the cultural and scientific knowledge they introduced was absorbed by some intellectuals in China. Then, against the wishes of the colonialists, they started the struggle for the prosperity of an independent nation.

2. The appearance of foreign newspapers also stimulated the newspaper-running activities of China people and the appearance of China people's own modern newspapers. In addition, in terms of printing equipment and technology, foreign newspapers have also prepared a material foundation for China people to run their own newspapers well.

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/kloc-At the beginning of the 9th century, the first batch of Christian (Protestant) missionaries came to China to run newspapers, which opened the curtain of modern newspaper industry in China. Since then, foreigners have traveled all the way to China to run newspapers (after the Opium War, they rushed to the beach as conquerors).

By the end of 19, a network of foreign newspapers and periodicals in China was gradually formed, with British and American newspapers and periodicals as the main bases, Hong Kong, Macao and Shanghai as the main cities in Taiwan Province Province, including Guangzhou, Shantou, Fuzhou, Xiamen, Ningbo, Yantai, Tianjin, Beijing, Jiujiang and Hankou, and a large number of influential Chinese and foreign newspapers and periodicals sponsored by foreign missionaries and businessmen appeared.

For example, Bee China (the first foreign newspaper in China), China Series, Chen De, Hong Kong Telecom, North China News, Zilin West News, Wen Wei Po, Jinyuan News, Beijing-Tianjin Times and Hong Kong China.

Hong Kong Chinese and Foreign Bulletin, China Church New Newspaper, World Bulletin, Shen Bao, Zilin Shanghai Newspaper, News Newspaper, etc.

Before the Sino-Japanese War of 1894-1895 (Japanese founded modern newspapers and periodicals), foreigners founded about 80 Chinese newspapers and periodicals in China, and about 130 foreign newspapers and periodicals. They formed a strong development trend, so that a unique "foreign newspaper period" appeared in the news history of China. ?

People's Network —— On the Influence of Foreign Newspapers on Modern China Society