Ever since its founding, the People's Daily has been under direct control of the CCP's top leadership.
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10 Facts About People's Daily
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Newspaper articles in the People's Daily are often not read for content so much as placement.
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Editorials in the People's Daily are regarded both by foreign observers and Chinese readers as authoritative statements of official government policy.
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Since the mid-1990s, the People's Daily has faced a decline of governmental subsidies combined with increasing competition from international news sources and Chinese tabloids.
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People's Daily is responsible for the publication of the nationalistic tabloid Global Times.
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People's Daily maintains a multilingual internet presence; and established the People's Daily Online in 1997.
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The website of People's Daily includes content in Arabic, French, Russian, Spanish, Japanese and English.
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People's Daily employs "writing task groups" of various staff to compose editorial pieces to signal the significance of certain pieces or their relationship to the official views of the CCP.
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In January 2021, the People's Daily inaccurately attributed deaths in Norway to the Pfizer–BioNTech COVID-19 vaccine.
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In 2021, ProPublica and The New York Times reported that the People's Daily was part of a coordinated state propaganda campaign to deny human rights abuses in Xinjiang.
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