Today China has two news agencies, the Xinhua News Agency and the China News Service ("Zhongguo Xinwenshe"). Xinhua was the major source of news and photographs for central and local newspapers. In 2002, there were 2100 newspapers, compared to only 400 in 1980. The party's newspapers "People's Daily" and "Guangming Daily", along with the Army's "PLA Daily", had the largest circulation. Local papers focused on local news are popular. In 1981, the English-language "China Daily" began publication. It printed international news and sports from the major foreign wire services as well as interesting domestic news and feature articles.