This paper discusses Ge Gongzhen’s communication ideas centered on “Jiaotong” which was used in his book Chinese Journalism History. It finds that his ideas were originated from Chinese culture and also absorbed the journalism ideas of Karl Bücher and Kanji Fujiwara. Based on that, Ge Gongzhen proposed that newspaper is the vehicle of communication and further analyzed relations among official newspaper, civil newspaper and foreign newspaper. He is one of the first people who tried to localize the concept of communication in China.