中国虽然曾产生过世界上最早的报纸——“邸报”，但现代意义上的报业萌芽却是近代的事，远远落后于西方。 戈公振在《中国报学史》中指出，“邸报”二字的首次出现始自唐代。唐代宗大历（公元７６６－７７９年）年间，诗人王建曾作《赠华州郑大夫诗》，其中“报状拆开知足雨， Although China had produced the world’s first newspaper, “Di newspaper”, but in the modern sense of the press sprouting is a modern thing, far behind the west. Ge Gongzhen pointed out in the “History of Chinese Newspapers and Magazines” that the first appearance of the word “Di Di” began in the Tang Dynasty. During the Tang Dynasty Dali (AD 766-779 years), the poet Wang Jian was made “gift Huazhou Zheng Fu-fu”, in which "newspaper dismantled to meet the rain,