Qapqal News
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| Type | Semi-weekly newspaper |
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| Format | Broadsheet |
| Editor-in-chief | Yiketan |
| Staff writers | 25 |
| Founded | July 1946 |
| Language | Xibe language |
| Headquarters |
Qapqal Xibe Autonomous County Ili Kazakh Autonomous Prefecture Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region People's Republic of China |
| Circulation | 1,300 |
The Qapqal News (Xibe: ᠴᠠᠪᠴᠠᠯ ᠰᡝᠷᡣᡞᠨ, Möllendorff: Cabcal Serkin; Chinese: 察布查尔报; pinyin: Chábùchá'ěr Bào) is the world's only newspaper in the Xibe language, a Tungusic language spoken in northwest China. It is one of roughly fifty minority-language newspapers in the Xinjiang autonomous region of China.
The predecessor of the Qapqal News, the Sulfan Jilgan (Xibe: ᠰᡠᠯᡶᠠᠨ ᠵᡳᠯᡤᠠᠨ; Chinese: 苏尔凡吉尔干; pinyin: Sū'ěrfán Jí'ěrgàn; literally: "Voice of Freedom"), was founded in July 1946 in Yining. In 1954, it changed its name to Ice Banjin (Xibe: ᡞᠴᡝ ᠪᠠᠨᠵᡳᠨ; Chinese: 伊车班津; pinyin: Yīchē Bānjīn; literally: "New Life News"). The paper moved its offices to its present location in the Qapqal Xibe Autonomous County in 1956. It was forced to stop publication in June 1966, during the Cultural Revolution, but was revived under its present name in October 1974, and has been in continuous operation since then.
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