1. Different selection institutions: The Yangtze River Award is selected by a selection committee composed of authoritative experts from the domestic press and literary circles, while the Taofen Award is the highest honor awarded by the All-China Journalists Association to senior journalists with good professional ethics and social influence.

2. The awards are different in nature: The Yangtze River Award and the Taofen Award are both national awards for outstanding news works, but the Yangtze River Award focuses more on the selection of outstanding news reports, and the Taofen Award focuses more on commending senior journalists with good professional ethics and social influence.