Dibao first appeared in the Han Dynasty. At that time, the western Han dynasty implemented the county system, and the whole country was divided into several counties, and the counties were divided into several counties. Each county has an office in Chang 'an, the capital. This residence is called "Di" and has residents' representatives. Their task is to communicate between the emperor and the counties, regularly write the imperial edicts, imperial edicts and courtiers' official documents, as well as political information about court events on bamboo slips or silk books, and then send them to the counties by couriers riding fast horses through the post roads established by the Qin Dynasty.
The earliest newspaper with historical records in China is Dibao, which originated in the fourth year of Tianbao in the Tang Dynasty (AD 745). Dibao is the general name of ancient newspapers in China, but this name began to appear in the Song Dynasty. So Shenbao is the earliest newspaper in the world.
The first modern official newspaper was Beiyang Official Newspaper published in the Republic of China (1902, issued nationwide by Tianjin General Administration).
Earlier than the Beiyang official newspaper, Karl gutzlaff, a Prussian missionary, founded and edited the East-West Examination Monthly in Guangzhou (1833), and the first Chinese business newspaper, Hong Kong Chinese and Foreign Bulletin (1858), published in Hong Kong.