China’s Newsmakers: How Media Power isShifting in the Xi Jinping Era

Supplemental Appendix

December 21, 2015

ContentsA Appendix: Volume of Content by Provincial Newspaper 2

B Appendix: Individual Newsmakers 4

C Appendix: Organizational Newsmakers 7

D Appendix: Entity Count Share Hu Jintao vs. Xi Jinping 10

E Appendix: Media Power Relative to Politburo Standing Committee 12

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A Appendix: Volume of Content by Provincial Newspa-per

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B Appendix: Individual Newsmakers

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Figure 2: Top 50 Individual Newsmakers (May 2011 - November 2012)

Name (English)Name (Chinese)

Entity Count Share Category Position

Hu Jintao 胡锦涛 2.03% Government/Party Politburo standing committeeWang 王 0.99% SurnameLi 李 0.92% SurnameWen Jiabao 温家宝 0.75% Government/Party Politburo standing committeeChen 陈 0.68% SurnameMao Zedong 毛泽东 0.54% Historical Founder of the People's Republic of ChinaLiu 刘 0.46% SurnameDeng Xiaoping 邓小平 0.42% Historical Paramount leader of China 1978-1992Zhang 张 0.35% SurnameLi Na 李娜 0.30% Athlete Tennis starZhao 赵 0.29% SurnameXi Jinping 习近平 0.29% Government/Party Politburo standing committee

Sun Yat-sen 孙中山 0.25% HistoricalFirst president and Founder of the Republic of China

Putin 普京 0.24% Foreign President of RussiaZhengzhou 郑州 0.23% CityLi Changchun 李长春 0.22% Government/Party Politburo standing committeeGuo 郭 0.21% SurnameWu 吴 0.20% SurnameLi Keqiang 李克强 0.19% Government/Party Politburo standing committeeJia Qinglin 贾庆林 0.17% Government/Party Politburo standing committeeWu Bangguo 吴邦国 0.17% Government/Party Politburo standing committeeLiu Xiang 刘翔 0.16% Athlete Olympic Gold Metalist in Track and FieldYang 杨 0.15% SurnameZhou Yongkang 周永康 0.13% Government/Party Politburo standing committeeTang 唐 0.13% SurnameCai 蔡 0.13% SurnameLi Hongzhong 李鸿忠 0.12% Government/Party Hubei provincial party secretaryGuo Shengkun 郭声琨 0.12% Government/Party Minister of Public Security

Kim Jong-il 金正日 0.12% ForeignFormer supreme leader of the Democratic People's Republic of Korea

Bashar al Assad 巴沙尔 0.11% Foreign President of SyriaQin Guangrong 秦光荣 0.11% Government/Party Yunnan provincial party secretary, CCZhu Xiaodan 朱小丹 0.11% Government/Party Guangdong governor

Yangshan Zhou 杨善洲 0.11% Model CitizenFormer local party secretary, Model Moral Citizen

Han 韩 0.11% SurnameSong 宋 0.11% SurnameZheng 郑 0.10% SurnameZhang Jiajie 张家界 0.10% CityHosni Mubarak 穆巴拉克 0.10% Foreign Former President of EgyptGuo Gengmao 郭庚茂 0.10% Government/Party Henan provincial party secretary, CCLiu Yang 刘洋 0.10% Celebrity First Chinse woman in space

Zhou Enlai 周恩来 0.10% HistoricalFirst Premier of the People's Republic of China

Liu Qibao 刘奇葆 0.10% Government/Party PolitburoLiu Jiheng 李纪恒 0.10% Government/Party Yunnan provincial governorLin 林 0.10% Surname

Hillary Rodham Clinton 希拉里 0.10% ForeignFormer US Secretary of State, Presidential election hopeful

Mitt Romney 罗姆尼 0.10% Foreign Former US Presidential election candidateGuo Mingyi 郭明义 0.10% Model Citizen Anshan worker, Model Moral Citizen

Liu Weimin 刘为民 0.10% Government/PartyFormer spokesperson for the Ministry of Foreign Affairs

Peng 彭 0.09% SurnameZhou 周 0.09% Surname

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Figure 3: Top 50 Individual Newsmakers (November 2012 - May 2014)

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Entity Count Share Category Position

Xi Jinping 习近平 3.58% Government/Party Politburo standing committeeWang 王 1.12% SurnameLi 李 0.98% SurnameLi Keqiang 李克强 0.72% Government/Party Politburo standing committeeMao Zedong 毛泽东 0.72% Historical Founder of the People's Republic of ChinaChen 陈 0.70% SurnameZhengzhou 郑州 0.57% CityLiu 刘 0.48% SurnameZhang 张 0.36% SurnameDeng Xiaoping 邓小平 0.35% Historical Paramount leader of China 1978-1992Putin 普京 0.32% Foreign President of RussiaZhao 赵 0.32% SurnameLi Na 李娜 0.29% Athlete Tennis starWu 吴 0.22% SurnameLiu Yunshan 刘云山 0.22% Government/Party Politburo standing committeeGuo 郭 0.21% SurnameHu Jintao 胡锦涛 0.18% Government/Party Politburo standing committeeZhang Dejiang 张德江 0.18% Government/Party Politburo standing committeeMoore 穆尔 0.15% ForeignYang 杨 0.14% SurnameTang 唐 0.14% SurnamePeng 彭 0.14% SurnameZhang Gaoli 张高丽 0.14% Government/Party Politburo standing committee

Hua Chunying 华春莹 0.13% Government/PartyDeputy Director of Foreign Ministry Information Department

Cai 蔡 0.13% SurnameZheng 郑 0.13% SurnameWang Qishan 王岐山 0.13% Government/Party Politburo standing committeeGuo Gengmao 郭庚茂 0.12% Government/Party Henan provincial party secretary, CCQin Guangrong 秦光荣 0.12% Government/Party Yunnan provincial party secretary, CCHan 韩 0.12% SurnameWen Jiabao 温家宝 0.11% Government/Party Politburo standing committeeLin 林 0.11% SurnameShinzo Abe 安倍晋三 0.10% Foreign Prime Minister of JapanZhang Jiajie 张家界 0.10% Citysalon 沙龙 0.10%Song 宋 0.10% SurnameLi Hongzhong 李鸿忠 0.09% Government/Party Hubei provincial party secretaryJiao Yulu 焦裕禄 0.09% Model Citizen Symbol of an honest cadreLiu Jiheng 李纪恒 0.09% Government/Party Yunnan provincial governorZhou 周 0.09% SurnameKe 克 0.09% SurnameLiang 梁 0.09% SurnameRong 荣 0.09% SurnameHu Chunhua 胡春华 0.08% Government/Party Politburo standing committeeYang Jiechi 杨洁篪 0.08% Government/Party Foreign Minister

Kim Jong-un 金正恩 0.08% ForeignSupreme leader of the Democratic People's Republic of Korea

Zhu Xiaodan 朱小丹 0.08% Government/Party Guangdong governor

Yangshan Zhou 杨善洲 0.07% Model CitizenFormer local party secretary, Model Moral Citizen

Obama 奥巴马 0.07% Foreign Current US PresidentMao 毛 0.07% Surname

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C Appendix: Organizational Newsmakers

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Figure 4: Top 50 Organizational Newsmakers (May 2011 - November 2012)

English ChineseEntity Count Share

Xinhua News Agency 新华社 5.93%Provincial Party Committee 省委 2.74%State council 国务院 1.75%Hubei Daily 湖北 日报 1.64%Provincial Government 省政府 1.52%Chinese Communist Party 中国 共产党 1.47%Nanfang Daily 南方 日报 1.18%Central Government 中央 0.94%City Government 市政府 0.78%Chinese Communist Party 中共 0.75%ASEAN 东盟 0.67%European Union 欧盟 0.65%Government 政府 0.61%United Nations 联合国 0.56%China Team 中国队 0.54%Politburo 中共 中央 政治局 0.46%Provincial People's Congress Standing Committee 省 人大 常委会 0.43%Ministry of Education 教育部 0.35%NATO 北约 0.32%Ministry of finance 财政部 0.30%Ministry of Foreign Affairs 外交部 0.29%Communist Party 共产党 0.27%National People's Congress Standing Committee 全 国 人大 常委会 0.25%Party Central Government 党 中央 0.25%City Party Committee 市委 0.22%Ministry of Health 卫生部 0.21%Kuomintang 国民党 0.20%Provincial People's Congress Standing Committee 省人大 常委会 0.18%National People's Congress 全 国 人大 0.18%Communist Party Members 共产党员 0.18%Democratic Party 民主党 0.18%CPPCC National Committee 全国 政协 0.17%National Development and Reform Commission 国家 发改委 0.17%National Bureau of Statistics 国家 统计局 0.16%Congress 国会 0.16%National People's Congress 人大 0.16%Ministry of Agriculture 农业部 0.15%Provincial Organization Department 省委 组织部 0.15%

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Figure 5: Top 50 Organizational Newsmakers (November 2012 - May 2014)

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Xinhua News Agency 新华社 5.35%Provincial Party Committee 省委 1.95%Nanfang Daily 南方 日报 1.84%State council 国务院 1.83%Hubei Daily 湖北 日报 1.51%Central Government 中央 1.25%Provincial Government 省政府 1.05%Chinese Communist Party 中共 0.95%Chinese Communist Party 中国 共产党 0.79%City Government 市政府 0.64%Government 政府 0.54%ASEAN 东盟 0.51%Politburo 中央 政治局 0.49%European Union 欧盟 0.47%Provincial People's Congress Standing Committee 省 人大 常委会 0.46%United Nations 联合国 0.44%Politburo 中共 中央 政治局 0.42%National People's Congress Standing Committee 全 国 人大 常委会 0.42%CPPCC National Committee 全国 政协 0.34%Ministry of Education 教育部 0.33%National People's Congress 全 国 人大 0.32%China Team 中国队 0.29%Ministry of Foreign Affairs 外交部 0.26%Ministry of finance 财政部 0.25%Party Central Government 党 中央 0.21%National People's Congress 人大 0.20%City Party Committee 市委 0.19%Department of Education 教育局 0.18%Congress 国会 0.17%Ministry of Agriculture 农业部 0.16%Provincial People's Congress Standing Committee 省人大 常委会 0.16%Central Commission for Discipline Inspection 中央 纪委 0.15%FAW Group Corporation 一汽 0.15%Central Committee 中央 书记处 0.14%Phoenix Television 凤凰 0.14%National Bureau of Statistics 国家 统计局 0.14%National Development and Reform Commission 国家 发改委 0.14%Qinghua University 清华 大学 0.14%

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D Appendix: Entity Count Share Hu Jintao vs. Xi Jin-ping

Comparison of count of mentions of Xi Jinping and Hu Jintao versus share of mentions

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E Appendix: Media Power Relative to Politburo Stand-ing Committee

We compare the entity count ratio of Hu Jintao in relation to everyone else in the 17th

Party Congress Politburo Standing Committee against the entity count ratio of Xi Jinping

to everyone else in the 18th Party Congress Poliburo Standing committee. We compare

the average entity count share among other members of the politburo standing committee

since the committee headed by Hu contained nine members while the current politburo

standing committee contains seven members. The left panel of Figure 6 shows the en-

Figure 6: Comparing Count of Top Leaders and Count Share of Top Leaders

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tity count ratio of Hu Jintao vis-a-vis his politburo standing committee members prior to

November 2012 in the dotted black line, and entity count ratio of Xi Jinping vis-a-vis

his politburo standing committee members after November 2012 in the solid blue line

pooling data from all provinces. This figure shows that Xi Jinping is covered 15 times as

much as the average among members of his politburo standing committee while Hu Jin-

tao is covered eight times as much as the average for members of his politburo standing

committee. The right panel of Figure 6 shows entity count ratio for Hu Jintao to the 17th

Politburo Standing Committee (in white circles) against the entity count ratio for Xi Jin-

ping to the 18th Party Congress Standing Committee (in black circles) for each province.

In all provinces, the relative coverage of Xi is greater than the relative coverage of Hu,

and this result is statistically significant in all but four provinces.

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