China Daily is an English-language daily newspaper owned by the Publicity Department of the Chinese Communist Party.
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19 Facts About China Daily
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China Daily has the widest print circulation of any English-language newspaper in China.
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China Daily produces an insert of sponsored content called China Watch that has been distributed inside other newspapers including The New York Times, The Wall Street Journal, The Washington Post, and Le Figaro.
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The China edition offers program guides to Radio Beijing and television, daily exchange rates, and local entertainment schedules.
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China Daily was officially established in June 1981 after a one-month trial.
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China Daily introduced an online edition in 1996 and a Hong Kong edition in 1997.
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In 2015, China Daily published a fake op-ed which the publication claimed was penned by Peter Hessler.
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The fabricated op-ed contained made up praise for China Daily and misrepresented Hessler's own words by taking them out of context.
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January 2020 report by Freedom House, a US non-governmental organization, noted that China Daily had increased its spending from $500,000 in the first half of 2009 to over $5 million in the latter half of 2019 for increased print runs.
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China Daily said it had a circulation of 300,000 in the US and 600,000 overseas.
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In February 2020, a group of US lawmakers asked the United States Department of Justice to investigate China Daily for alleged violations of the Foreign Agents Registration Act.
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Judy Polumbaum stated in the Berkshire Encyclopedia of China that China Daily "resists definition as a simple mouthpiece" and has a "distinctive, if quixotic, status".
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In 2009, China Daily was called "the most influential English language national newspaper in China" according to University of St Thomas scholar Juan Li.
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In May 2020, CNN, Financial Times, and other media outlets reported that China Daily censored references to the origin of the COVID-19 pandemic from an opinion piece authored by European Union ambassadors.
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In January 2021, China Daily inaccurately attributed deaths in Norway to the Pfizer–BioNTech COVID-19 vaccine.
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In October 2021, the German Marshall Fund reported that China Daily was one of several state media outlets propagating a conspiracy theory concerning the origins of COVID-19.
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In January 2022, China Daily alleged that the US planned to pay athletes to "sabotage" the 2022 Winter Olympics.
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In March 2022, China Daily falsely claimed that COVID-19 was created by Moderna, citing a page on The Expose, a British conspiracist website.
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