Jinling Evening News (金陵晚報)

Nanjing's Jinling Evening News is ninth on our list with circulation of 1.20 million. Published by the Nanjing Daily Newspaper Group, the paper was established on New Year's Day, 1993. Once a relatively minor player in the competitive Nanjing news market, the Evening News became Jiangsu Province's top paper in 2004 after an aggressive four-year expansion that quintupled its circulation. Its masthead uses characters written by renowned calligrapher and Buddhist leader Zhao Puchu. The paper also publishes a city news portal, which provides an electronic version of the print edition.