With the time difference with Europe and America, the newspaper was able to publish much more foreign news by coming out later, and so throughout this period the China News was published in the afternoon. Apart from allowing it to print later-breaking international news, being an afternoon paper also allowed it to stake out a separate niche in the English-reading market from the China Post.
由於與歐美時差關係，報社越晚截稿，越能接收到最新外電，因此《英文中國日報》一直是下午出刊，一方面消息較新，一方面也和另一家英文報的市場有所區隔。