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Three autonomous-region papers carry the “Chinese national community” slogan in 6 to 9 of every 100 articles
Articles mentioning 铸牢中华民族共同体意识 per 1,000 collected, by newspaper, over 180 days
papers of three autonomous regionsPeople’s Dailyother papers
Over 180 days, 93 of every 1,000 Xinjiang Daily articles collected used the phrase, 66 in Inner Mongolia Daily and 60 in Tibet Daily. The next highest paper, Gansu Daily, had 17. People’s Daily had 5.
Source: PropagandaScope, data to 12 October 2026. The phrase: “forging a strong sense of community for the Chinese nation”. The 180 days to 12 October 2026, on the days each paper and People’s Daily were both collected. People’s Daily: 77 matching articles; another 199 of its articles were cut at 5,000 characters and show no match, so its figure may be too low. Ningxia Daily and Yunnan Daily are left out: collected on too few of their publication days.
