Yangtse Evening Post
December 13, 2007

Yangtse Evening Post, a paper published under the auspices of the Xinhua Daily Newspaper Group, covers primarily Nanjing and a few cities in neighboring areas like Anhui Province and Shanghai. The paper claims that it has "the largest circulation" among all Chinese evening papers. Today's Nanjing edition contains 80 pages.

Today is the 70th anniversary of the start of the Nanjing Massacre, the most infamous war crime committed by Japanese military. During the six weeks from December 13, 1937 to early February 1938, 300,000 Chinese civilians and captives were killed in Nanjing by Japanese troops. The front page photo shows two armed police officers laying wreaths at the Nanjing Massacre Museum.

Other headlines:

• Not long ago, the Ministry of Public Security published a draft regulation on a name registration system. The rules say that the length of names for Han people must be kept within 6 characters. But statistics show that there are more that 1,000 people whose names are longer 10 characters; 97% of them live in Xinjiang Autonomous Region;
• A fire killed 21 people at an apartment building in Wenzhou, Zhejiang Province;
• An 18-year-old shooting team member was killed by accident at a Shanghai skeet shooting center on 3 December. His family was offered compensation of 600,000 yuan, which they refused to accept.