''Beijing Evening News'' or ''Beijing Wanbao'' (), also known as ''Beijing Evening Post'', is a

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newspaper in the

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. It was founded on March 15, 1958.

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wrote the title for it in 1964. ''Beijing Evening Post'' featured the best-selling novel '' Beijinger in New York'' by

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as a television series in 1991. In 2002, the newspaper was found to have lifted a fake article about the U.S. Congress' Supposed Move From Washington D.C. in protest of better facilities from ''

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''.

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