Reference News (Chinese: 参考消息; pinyin: Cānkǎo Xiāoxī) is a Chinese newspaper published by Xinhua News Agency.

[3] The early editions of the newspaper were published under different titles in Ruijin until it was renamed Reference News in 1942.

Before the 1980s, it was the only official channel for the Chinese public to have a glimpse of the outside world.

[5] The paper is also published in the Uyghur, Kazakh, Korean, and Mongolian languages for ethnic minority groups in China.

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