
Swipe Right for the Motherland
When China’s flagship official newspaper introduces a dating app and starts hosting singles mixers for troops and government workers, you know the demographic issue has entered a new phase.

Inner Mongolia Daily (內蒙古日報) is the official party newspaper of the Chinese Communist Party’s Inner Mongolia Autonomous Region Committee, published in separate Chinese and Mongolian-language editions. According to the newspaper’s own 2025 social responsibility report, the paper was first published on January 1, 1948, and describes itself as the earliest provincial-level party newspaper founded in one of China’s ethnic minority regions. The same report states the paper operates under the direct leadership of the regional party propaganda office and organizes its content around the promotion of Chinese President Xi Jinping’s political theory and the concept of “forging a strong sense of community for the Chinese nation” (鑄牢中華民族共同體意識). The paper operates a multi-platform outreach effort branded “Solonga” (索倫嘎) aimed at audiences in Mongolia and Russia, and led the launch of the Inner Mongolia International Communication Center in 2026, a state propaganda initiative named as a priority in the regional party committee’s 15th Five-Year Plan.
