Central Daily News was launched in Shanghai on 1 February 1928, as a mouthpiece of the Kuomintang and began circulation in the then Chinese capital Nanking.

The paper had previously temporarily ceased publication on 13 December 1937, when the capital was occupied by the Japanese military in the Second Sino-Japanese War.

[2] The paper was relocated to the temporary Chinese capital Chongqing and resumed publication on September 1, 1938, before returning to Nanjing after the war.

[3] In 1950, the Kuomintang, fearing sociopolitical instability and communist insurgency, began a four-decade-long authoritarian rule, beginning with the suspension of the constitution, which included a ban on the free press.

As part of new austerity measures implemented by Kuomintang Chairman Ma Ying-jeou, the Central Standing Committee resolved to cease publication of the paper by the end of May 2006.