China's first English-Chinese mobile newspaper was launched Tuesday in Beijing, China Daily reported.

Zhu Ling, editor of China Daily, and Wang Jianzhou, chairman of China Mobile, launched the mobile news site in a joint ceremony. The mobile news site will be produced by both China Mobile and China Daily, and will be called China Daily Mobile News.

The mobile news site will send English-language and Chinese-language news to users' mobile phones as multimedia messages, China Daily reported.

It is hoped that the mobile news service will be a hit with athletes, officials, tourists and businessmen and women visiting China for the Olympics, and after the event is over, the report stated.