Chen Chi, Guangxu Dynasty in the late Qing Dynasty, had served in the Grant Council and the Ministry of Revenue. In the later period of the first SinoJapanese War, the Book of the Yong was published in 100 articles, among which the Newspaper House put forward the idea of running a newspaper as “the weapon of the state should not be fake”. Chen Chi played an important role in the early stage of the reform group’s newspaper activities: after the signing of the Treaty of Shimonoseki, Chen Chi persuaded Kang Youwei to join hands with him to set up a newspaper and a society, so as to open up the atmosphere of reform. He not only presided over the editorial work of Wanguo Gazette and Zhongwaijiwen, but also changed the name of the Qiangxue society to the Qiangxue publishing house, so that the Reform movement in Beijing changed from secret to open. After the founding of the Shiwu Bao in 1896, Chen Chi worked for the publication and promotion of the paper in Beijing, and in his leisure time in the Ministry of Revenue, he retranslated Adam Smith’s Original Wealth and wrote the National Policy of Continuing to be Rich, which was in line with the proposition of saving the nation from extinction and saving the survival. Among them, “on the Climax of Running Newspapers” represents his newspaper thought.