Analyze The Propagandist Feature Of "People's Daily" On Ideological Emancipation Campaign

After the "Cultural Revolution", news agencies in China thrived from a piece of rubble after a brief period of adjustment. As the supervisor and the guardian of society, the party newspapers and periodicals sounded the first bugle call of ideological emancipation in May 1978, the article "practice is the sole criterion for testing truth" triggered a sharp shock and resonance in the whole Chinese society.The Ideological emancipation campaign, which is caused by the Truth criterion discussion, is another great movement of mind liberation following "May 4 Movement" and Yan'an Rectification Movement. It breaks the ideological shackles the "Cultural Revolution" has brought to the chinese society and paves road to the reform and opening up.The study period of this article is from the end of "Cultural Revolution" to December 31, 1983. From October 1976 to May 1978, in order to clarify confusion and bring things back to order, China's media has done a lot of publicity and thus laid an important foundation for the smooth start of reform and opening up. From the guiding ideology to editorial policy, reforms have been gradually brewing strength.This article will take combining methods of quantitative and qualitative research. It will analyze the relevant textes of the "People's Daily" and find out how "People's Daily"implemented central policy in criticizing the "gang of four"and "two whatevers "fallacy, the way the newspaper promoted discussion of the criterion of truth and ideological and economic liberation, and in the process, what transformations has brought to "People's Daily" itself.