Chinese Newspaper Editors Fined for Adding Three Characters to ‘Xi Jinping Thought’

Two editors at the state-run Shaanxi Daily Chinese newspaper were fined 10,000 yuan ($1,440) and 5,000 yuan for a “major political error.”

Chinese President Xi Jinping attends a signing ceremony with Dominican Republic's President Danilo Medina (not pictured) at the Great Hall of the People on November 2, 2018 in Beijing, China. Thomas Peter-Pool/Getty Images

Two editors at the state-run newspaper Shaanxi Daily were fined 10,000 yuan ($1,440) and 5,000 yuan, respectively, for a “major political error” after they added three Chinese characters to the Communist Party’s (CCP) new ideological line, “Xi Jinping Thought,” in a Nov. 15 article.

In October 2017, the CCP’s once-in-five-years political conclave, the 19th National Congress, confirmed “Xi Jinping Thought on Socialism with Chinese Characteristics for a New Era” (known as Xi Jinping Thought) as the Party’s guiding political and military ideology.