Bigger and better. That is the vision for China Daily next year and in 2008 
as the country counts down to the Beijing Olympics. 
"We have both the will and the resources to be more innovative and more 
successful," Zhu Ling, editor-in-chief of China Daily, said yesterday at a 
reception to mark the 25th anniversary of the only national English-language 
newspaper in the country. 
 
 
   Cai Wu (right), 
 minister of the State Council Information Office, and Zhu Ling, 
 editor-in-chief of China Daily, raise a toast at a reception on May 31, 
 2006 to mark the 25th anniversary of the country's only national 
 English-language newspaper.[China Daily] 
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More than 400 government officials, business 
leaders, diplomats and journalists attended the event. 
Li Changchun, member of the Standing Committee of the Political Bureau of the 
Communist Party of China, said in his message of congratulations that he hopes 
China Daily becomes an influential newspaper and a premier source of information 
about the country for international readers. 
 
 
   Zhu Ling, editor-in-chief of China 
 Daily. | 
Cai Wu, minister of the State Council Information Office, hailed "Chinese 
people publishing an English-language newspaper." 
He urged the newspaper to ensure that information from China a country 
forever changing for the better is delivered to the rest of the world more 
efficiently and rapidly. 
He said he hopes that everyone at China Daily takes the day as a fresh 
starting point to do a better job and "report on the peaceful development of our 
great country." 
Leaders of other countries and international organizations also sent their 
best wishes. 
China Daily 
(China Daily 06/01/2006 page1)