Nhân Dân

Nhân Dân (lit. 'People'; French: Le journal Nhân Dân, Chinese: 人民报, Russian: Газета «Нянзан», Spanish: El periódico Nhan Dan) is the official newspaper of the Communist Party of Vietnam. According to the newspaper, it is “the voice of the Party, the State and the people of Vietnam.”

Nhân Dân

The central organ of the Communist Party of Vietnam and the voice of the Party, State and People of Vietnam
Nhân Dân office in Da Nang
Type	Daily Newspaper
Format	Print, online
School	Nhân Dân cuối tuần
Owner(s)	Communist Party of Vietnam
Editor-in-chief	Lê Quốc Minh
Founded	11 March 1951; 74 years ago (1951-03-11)
Political alignment	Ho Chi Minh Thought Socialist-oriented market economy
Language	Vietnamese and others
Headquarters	71 Hàng Trống Street, Hoàn Kiếm District, Hanoi
Country	Vietnam
Website	nhandan.vn (Vietnamese) en.nhandan.vn (English)
Media of Vietnam List of newspapers

It has a daily circulation of 180,000 copies. Its weekend edition, Nhân Dân cuối tuần (lit: The People Weekend), has a circulation of 110,000 copies, and its monthly magazine has a circulation of 130,000 copies. It has an online edition that was started on June 21, 1998.

The newspaper was first published on March 11, 1951. Its predecessor was Sự Thật ("Truth") newspaper, which was set up in the 1940s.^[1] Many important figures in the Vietnamese Communist Party worked at Nhân Dân. Trường Chinh and Tố Hữu were editors in chief of the newspaper. Painter Phan Kế An was a regular contributor during the First Indochina War in particular, after he was asked to join the newspaper by Trường Chinh.^[1]

Current Editor in Chief of Nhân Dân is Lê Quốc Minh.

History

Newspaper and official name of the Party by time

Newspaper	Time	Party's name
Cờ Giải phóng "Liberation Flag"	10 October 1942 – 17 July 1945 12 September 1945 – 18 November 1945	Indochinese Communist Party
Sự Thật "Truth"	5 December 1945 – 21 December 1950	Institute for Studying Marxism in Indochina
Nhân Dân "The People"	11 March 1951 – present	Worker's Party of Vietnam Communist Party of Vietnam

Subsidiaries

• Nhân Dân-Saigontourist
• Nhân Dân TV

Awards

Nhân Dân was awarded the First Class Independence Medal on March 9, 2016.^[2][3]