On February 21 2014, a Urumqi-based team led by Dacheng senior partner Yang Shuwen was retained as standing legal counsel for Xinjiang Daily for a third consecutive year. Ms. Wang would be assisted by attorneys Yu Xiaoyan, Xu Xuemei and Li Jin during the agreed term of service.

Xinjiang Daily is the official newspaper of the Communist Party Committee of Xinjiang Uygur Autonomous Region. It is the only newspaper in China published in four languages, i.e., Chinese, Uygur, Kazakh and Mongolian. It is also the only party organ publication whose name was inscribed twice by Chairman Mao. When it first came out, only 17,100 copies were distributed. Now, this figure has climbed to more than 123,900. In 1967, it hit a peak, at round 340,000 copies.

During Ms. Yang’s term as the newspaper’s legal counsel, she has advised it on administrative law, civil and commercial law, intellectual property and contract law, offered legal training for the staff and represented the newspaper in a few copyright cases. Ms. Yang is also legal counsel for a number of Xinjiang-based culture and art institutions, such as the Cultural Affairs Department of Xijiang, Xinjiang Pictorial, Xinjiang Fine Art Academy and Xinjiang City News.

Xinjiang Daily would put up an announcement on its publication twice a month over its retainment of Dacheng attorneys, so that our firm would be known to a wider public.