Data card 10
Does usage vary from province to province?A question raised by Jaros & Pan in China’s newsmakers (2018)
Six of the day’s ten most-used terms appeared in all 25 newspapers
Articles mentioning each term, by newspaper, on 12 October 2026
| 高质量发展high-quality development | 统一unify, unified | 习近平Xi Jinping | 人工智能artificial intelligence | 新时代new era | 消费consumption | 十五五15th Five-Year Plan | 中华民族Chinese nation | 中国式现代化Chinese modernization | 人口population | Articlescollected that day | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jiangxi Daily | 18 | 8 | 12 | 8 | 9 | 10 | 7 | 6 | 6 | 4 | 42 |
| Heilongjiang Daily | 17 | 17 | 7 | 9 | 12 | 5 | 9 | 4 | 8 | 2 | 58 |
| Henan Daily | 15 | 9 | 9 | 6 | 4 | 3 | 4 | 2 | 4 | 4 | 40 |
| Tibet Daily | 13 | 7 | 7 | 2 | 12 | 4 | 3 | 10 | 2 | 1 | 40 |
| People’s Daily | 12 | 14 | 17 | 12 | 12 | 13 | 8 | 7 | 11 | 7 | 107 |
| Chongqing Daily | 12 | 10 | 16 | 10 | 10 | 9 | 9 | 3 | 6 | 5 | 44 |
| Xinjiang Daily | 10 | 10 | 7 | 4 | 7 | 6 | 8 | 6 | 4 | 4 | 39 |
| Zhejiang Daily | 10 | 9 | 8 | 11 | 8 | 8 | 5 | 7 | 4 | 3 | 38 |
| Guizhou Daily | 10 | 10 | 6 | 8 | 5 | 7 | 8 | 5 | 5 | 3 | 46 |
| Gansu Daily | 10 | 10 | 5 | 3 | 5 | 2 | 3 | 3 | 4 | 2 | 37 |
| Sichuan Daily | 10 | 8 | 9 | 6 | 9 | 7 | 6 | 8 | 5 | 5 | 34 |
| Xinhua Daily | 10 | 5 | 5 | 10 | 5 | 14 | 6 | 3 | 5 | 5 | 52 |
| Inner Mongolia Daily | 8 | 8 | 5 | 7 | 5 | 4 | 9 | 8 | 3 | 1 | 34 |
| Fujian Daily | 8 | 8 | 4 | 5 | 4 | 1 | 4 | 3 | 3 | 1 | 36 |
| Nanfang Daily | 8 | 1 | 11 | 7 | 7 | 6 | 4 | 4 | 3 | 3 | 32 |
| Shaanxi Daily | 8 | 2 | 8 | 6 | 7 | 3 | 5 | 3 | 3 | 2 | 43 |
| Hunan Daily | 7 | 5 | 7 | 8 | 4 | 7 | 2 | 4 | 4 | 2 | 42 |
| Jiefang Daily | 7 | 7 | 4 | 8 | 3 | 13 | 5 | 1 | 1 | 7 | 43 |
| Dazhong Daily | 6 | 4 | 4 | 9 | 5 | 4 | 13 | 3 | 3 | 4 | 50 |
| Jilin Daily | 5 | 2 | 2 | 2 | 5 | 3 | 3 | 2 | 2 | 2 | 35 |
| Guangming Daily | 4 | 12 | 8 | 11 | 11 | 5 | 8 | 10 | 8 | 3 | 61 |
| Hubei Daily | 4 | 5 | 7 | 5 | 5 | 4 | 5 | 6 | 3 | 4 | 32 |
| Hebei Economic Daily | 3 | 5 | 1 | 4 | 2 | 7 | 2 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 50 |
| Tianjin Daily | 2 | 0* | 1 | 2 | 2 | 0* | 1 | 1 | 3 | 1 | 10 |
| Hainan Daily | 2 | 2 | 2 | 3 | 2 | 1 | 2 | 2 | 2 | 1 | 8 |
“High-quality development”, “Xi Jinping”, “artificial intelligence”, “new era”, “15th Five-Year Plan” and “Chinese modernization” each appeared in every paper collected that day. A zero means the paper was collected and no collected article used the term.
Source: PropagandaScope, data to 12 October 2026. The ten curated terms with the most matching articles on 12 October 2026, in the 25 papers collected that day (1,053 articles). Ningxia Daily and Yunnan Daily failed to collect. Counts are articles, not shares, so papers with more articles collected show higher numbers.
Research sources: Jaros & Pan (2018), China’s Newsmakers (PDF)
