On March 1st China Daily got its biggest makeover since the newspaper was launched in 1981 as China's first English-language daily. As well as a new look, the paper is boosting the number of its foreign correspondents. With a new investigative-reporting feature, China Daily said that it was aiming to "set the news agenda instead of just follow it".rnSo far, this agenda seems unlikely to set foreign pulses racing. Next to this bold new feature ChinaDaihy splashed an "exclusive" interview with the foreign minister, Yang Jiechi, under the headline "fm: China is doing all it can in foreign affairs". Still, the makeover marks a departure for the vapid broadsheet. And China Daily is only the latest Chinese media organ to revamp itself in what President Hu Jintao calls an "increasingly fierce struggle in the domain of news and opinion".
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