In September 2006, Hu Xunbi, the editor-in-chief of "Zhiyin", said in an interview with a reporter from the "Beijing News": The circulation of the first issue of "Zhiyin" reached 400,000 (priced at 30 cents). money), it exceeded 1 million that year, 1.2 million the next year, and 1.3 million in the first half of 1987. However, the number began to decline in the second half of 1987, reaching more than 800,000 in the second half of the year. By 1989, the circulation of "Zhiyin" dropped to 490,000 copies.
According to the official website of "Zhiyin": "Zhiyin" (ten-day issue) has a current monthly circulation of 6.36 million copies, ranking fifth in the latest ranking of comprehensive periodicals in the world and second in various magazines nationwide. "Zhiyin" has been rated as the top ten most popular journals by readers across the country, the top ten journals, and the "double high journal" of the Chinese Periodical Array. It has won the highest award for Chinese journals - the National Outstanding Social Science Journal Award and the National Journal for three times. Award, and has been named "Hubei Province Famous Trademark" for three consecutive years. Every reader is more or less likely to have questions about the authenticity of the stories published in "Zhiyin". Hu Xunbi said: "Before 1998, the authenticity of the content of "Zhiyin" was a big problem because urban newspapers had documentary This affects the source of our manuscripts because we never publish works that have been published in other media.”
In 1998, Zhiyin established a legal department responsible for publishing. Manuscripts are verified. Hu Xunbi said, "I dare not say that our articles are 100% true, but most of them are correct."
In August 1999, "Zhiyin" magazine published "Before 1999, that physics The article "A Ph.D. Is Still a Young Man Who Failed in the Rural College Entrance Examination" reports on the growth process of Zhang Qidong, a young man who failed the college entrance examination in rural areas and became a doctor of physics in the United States. The actual situation is that in August 1998, Zhang Qidong studied in his spare time in Beijing and made a living by selling newspapers. There are a series of things mentioned in the article such as being admitted as a doctoral candidate at Boston University.
On August 17, 2000, "Southern Weekend" published a series of articles entitled "Readers sue Zhiyin for losing the first instance claim for 89 yuan", revealing that the editor of "Zhiyin" tried to make the article more "touching" ", "good-looking", processing and adapting the original work, even changing the facts and making up stories.