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China Ocean Shipping News

China Ocean Shipping News (中國遠洋海運報) is a Chinese-language industry newspaper owned by COSCO Shipping Group Co., Ltd. (中國遠洋海運集團有限公司), or COSCO Shipping, a Shanghai-headquartered state-owned marine transportation conglomerate owned by the State Council and supervised by the State-owned Assets Supervision and Administration Commission (國有資產監督管理委員會), or SASAC. The newspaper is registered in Shanghai and appears as a four-page color broadsheet issued every Friday. The newspaper’s coverage focuses on COSCO group activities and Chinese Communist Party study sessions. Its masthead states a mission to uphold the “guidance of public opinion” (輿論導向), a Party term for shaping news coverage to keep it in line with official messaging, and to serve China’s ocean shipping industry.

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