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Today is the Chinese Communist Party's 83rd birthday, so the Front Page of the Day must go to the People's Daily. It follows its tradition of using red headlines, above an enthusiastic editorial.
Today is also the birthday of blogger Richard of Peking Duck, although there appears to be no relation between the two anniversaries.

People's Daily headlines:

Summarizing the experience of governing ability construction throughly, strengthen the governing theory construction heavily; Strengthen and improve the construction of CCP by focusing on improving the capacity of governing
What can we say? The Danwei office needs People's Daily Koolaid.

- Hu Jintao meets the premier of Fiji
- Wu Bang'guo meets the premier of Fiji

Headlines from other newspapers are below:

The Beijing News 新京报
今日开审萨达姆
Saddam trial starts today

Beijing Youth Daily 北京青年报
“北京现代”破解党建“现代课题”
Beijing Hyundai solves the "Hyundai problem" on CCP construction
Party members in Hyundai do a good job

Beijing Morning Post 北京晨报
优秀党员 七一感言
An excellent CCP member expresses her feelings on July 1

Beijing Daily Messenger 北京娱乐信报
B本驾照今起可随时换C本
Type B driver's license can be changed to type C anytime from today

Headlines of yesterday's evening newspapers

Beijing Evening News 北京晚报
世界巨星9月长城演绎激情之夜
World stars will perform "passionate night" at Great Wall in September

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