About Jiuquan News Net

Jiuquan News Net

About the Portal

Jiuquan News Net is the official online news portal serving Jiuquan in Gansu, China. It is produced by the local converged media centre, the merged municipal newspaper, radio and television operation for the area, and publishes local news in Chinese for the prefecture and its subordinate counties and districts. As described in its service profile, the portal carries reporting from the local newspaper group alongside online-first local coverage, short-video news and local government service information. Local news websites of this type in China operate under Cyberspace Administration of China internet news information service licensing, which governs which organisations may gather, edit and publish news online. Jiuquan is a prefecture-level city in westernmost Gansu, occupying about 192,000 square kilometres, some 42 percent of the province by area according to official overviews, making it one of China's largest prefecture-level jurisdictions. Administered from Suzhou District, it includes Yumen, Dunhuang, Guazhou and Jinta, and the Subei Mongol and Aksay Kazakh autonomous counties, stretching across the western Hexi Corridor between the Qilian and Altyn Tagh mountains.

History and Setting

Dunhuang, within Jiuquan, holds the Mogao Grottoes, inscribed as a UNESCO World Heritage site in 1987, with hundreds of painted caves spanning a millennium of Buddhist art. The Yumen Pass, Yang Pass, Han dynasty Great Wall remains and the Xuanquanzhi postal station site form part of the Silk Road heritage corridor, and Mingsha Mountain with Crescent Lake is among China's best-known desert scenic areas. Official tourism overviews credit Jiuquan with five World Cultural Heritage listings when its Silk Road sites are counted together.

Geography and Landscape

Jiuquan is also described in official profiles as a cradle of modern Chinese spaceflight. The Jiuquan Satellite Launch Centre, founded in 1958 in the desert north of the prefecture near the Inner Mongolia border, is China's oldest launch base and the site from which its crewed Shenzhou missions are launched. Aerospace news, from launch announcements to the space-themed tourism developing around the centre, is a recurring national story that originates in this prefecture.

Economy and Industry

Energy gives Jiuquan a second modern identity. The Yumen oilfield, developed from 1939, is regarded as the cradle of China's modern petroleum industry. More recently Guazhou and Yumen have been promoted as a world wind bank, and official overviews describe Jiuquan as China's first ten-million-kilowatt-class wind power base, with more than 3,300 hours of annual sunshine supporting large solar development in the Gobi.

Culture and Heritage

Culturally the prefecture markets Dunhuang culture, frontier culture and space culture together. Dunhuang studies, grotto conservation by the Dunhuang Academy, desert ecology around Crescent Lake and the Jinta Euphrates poplar forest all generate sustained specialist coverage, while melon production in Guazhou and Dunhuang and oasis farming along the Shule River sustain the agricultural reporting of the river valleys.

Area Served and Local Coverage

A local news portal here must cover an unusually wide brief: World Heritage conservation, crewed space launches, wind and solar megaprojects, oilfield heritage, desert tourism safety and county news from communities separated by hundreds of kilometres of Gobi. That scale and range, documented in official city profiles, is what distinguishes Jiuquan's local journalism within Gansu.

What the Portal Publishes

Day to day, Jiuquan News Net publishes government and public-policy news, economy and industry reporting, society and livelihood coverage, and culture and tourism material for Jiuquan. Typical items include municipal meeting and policy announcements, project and infrastructure updates, market and agricultural reporting in season, school and hospital service information, weather and road notices, and features on local heritage and landscape. The mix reflects the converged newsroom behind it, in which newspaper reporting, broadcast material and mobile-first video are planned together rather than produced in separate silos.

The Newsroom and Converged Media

Like other prefecture-level outlets in China, Jiuquan News Net is the digital front end of a converged media centre formed by merging the local daily newspaper with radio and television under one organisation. That structure, adopted across China in the county and prefecture media reforms of recent years, means a single editorial team gathers material for print, broadcast, web, mobile app and social accounts. For readers in Gansu, the practical effect is that official announcements, live-streamed local events and short-video explainers appear on the same platform as the newspaper's text reporting.

Reading the Portal and Its Audience

The portal's primary audience is residents of Jiuquan and its counties, together with people from the area who now live elsewhere in China and follow hometown news online. Coverage is published in Chinese and is organised around the locality first: district and county news, service information and official notices are given prominence over national material, which is typically carried from state news agencies. For researchers and directory users, Jiuquan News Net is best understood as the official local news website of its prefecture, distinct from the print daily newspaper of the same city, whose reporting it carries and extends.

Transport, Seasons and Public Information

Public-information reporting is one of the most practical functions of Jiuquan News Net. In a prefecture such as Jiuquan, where county towns can be separated by long road journeys and where weather can change conditions quickly, readers rely on the official local portal for road and transport notices, weather warnings, and announcements about schools, hospitals and public utilities. Seasonal coverage follows the local calendar closely: spring brings planting, blossom, wind or meltwater reporting depending on the district, summer brings flood, heat or peak visitor-season coverage, autumn is dominated by harvest, livestock movement or tourism results, and winter coverage turns to heating, snow, road safety and festival travel. Because the portal is part of the official converged media centre for Jiuquan in Gansu, its notices carry the authority of the local newsroom's own reporting and of the government departments whose announcements it publishes, which is why such service items are typically placed prominently on its homepage and mobile channels alongside general news.

Digital Services and Verification

Jiuquan News Net also functions as an entry point to local digital services. In line with the standard practice of official prefecture-level portals in China, its pages link readers toward government service information, policy documents, public notices and enquiry channels for the Jiuquan area, as well as to the media centre's mobile and social-media accounts, where short-video news and live streams are distributed. For anyone verifying whether a piece of local news is official, the practical test is whether it appears on this portal or on the accounts of the local converged media centre, since licensed internet news information services are the authorised channel for original local news gathering and publication. Readers outside Gansu who encounter the portal through search should note that it is a Chinese-language local service rather than a national or English-language publication: its value, for residents and for researchers alike, lies precisely in that local focus, in the county-level detail of its service information, and in the continuity between its reporting and the newspaper, radio and television services of the same media centre.

Taken as a whole, the portal should be understood as part of the standard structure of local journalism in China, in which each prefecture-level area maintains an official news website operated by its converged media centre. That context matters when assessing its content: official announcements, policy interpretation and service information form its core, supplemented by the centre's own reporting on the economy, society, culture and landscape of its home area. Its archive, built up day by day, amounts to a running public record of local decisions, projects, festivals, harvests, emergencies and commemorations, and it is frequently the first source cited by provincial and national media when a story from this area reaches a wider audience. For that reason the portal is catalogued in this directory as the area's official online news service in its own right, separate from the corresponding print newspaper entry, from provincial portals that aggregate its material, and from commercial news sites that republish local stories without maintaining a newsroom in the area itself.