[citation needed] In March 2018, Jiefang Daily won the Third National Top 100 Newspapers in China.

[5][6] Published by the Shanghai Municipal Government, Jiefang Daily is a general newspaper covering East China.

And its primary readership covers decision makers and business executives in governmental agencies and local enterprises.

Jiefang Daily is the official newspaper for the Shanghai committee of the CCP.

After Shanghai was taken over by the People's Liberation Army from the Kuomintang government, the newspaper started publication on May 28, 1949, by continuing to use the name of the central government's former Party newspaper Jiefang Daily published in the communist base Yan'an in northern Shaanxi Province.