The People's Daily
 |
|
Front page on 1 October 1949
(the day the PRC was established) |
|
| Type | Daily newspaper |
|---|---|
| Owner(s) | Communist Party of China |
| Publisher | Central Committee of the Communist Party of China |
| Founded | 15 June 1948 |
| Political alignment | Socialism with Chinese characteristics |
| Language | Chinese, Varieties of Chinese |
| Headquarters | No. 2 Jintai Xilu, Chaoyang District, Beijing |
| Website | en.people.cn (in English) |
| People's Daily | |||||||
| Simplified Chinese | 人民日报 | ||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Traditional Chinese | 人民日報 | ||||||
|
|||||||
| Transcriptions | |
|---|---|
| Standard Mandarin | |
| Hanyu Pinyin | Rénmín Rìbào |
The People's Daily is the biggest newspaper group in China. The paper is an official newspaper of the Chinese Communist Party, published worldwide with a circulation of 3 to 4 million. In addition to its main Chinese-language edition, it has editions in English, Japanese, French, Spanish, Portuguese, Russian, Arabic, Tibetan, Kazakh, Uyghur, Zhuang, Mongolian, Korean and other minority languages in China. The newspaper provides direct information on the policies and viewpoints of the government.
The paper was established on 15 June 1948 and was published in Pingshan, Hebei, until its offices were moved to Beijing in March 1949. Ever since its founding, the People's Daily has been under direct control of the Party's top leadership. Deng Tuo and Wu Lengxi served as editor-in-chief from 1948–1958 and 1958–1966, respectively, but the paper was in fact controlled by Mao's personal secretary Hu Qiaomu.
During the Cultural Revolution, the People's Daily was one of the few sources of information from which either foreigners or Chinese could figure out what the Chinese government was doing or planning to do. During this period, an editorial in the People's Daily would be considered an authoritative statement of government policy, was studied and reproduced nationwide, and analyzed globally for insight into the Party's plans. The most important editorials were jointly published by People's Daily, People's Liberation Army Daily and Red Flag (magazine), from 1967 to 1978, so called "Two newspapers and one journal"(两报一刊), directly representing the highest voice of Chinese Communist Party.
...
Wikipedia