People's Daily
People's Daily is the official newspaper of the Central Committee of the Chinese Communist Party, published in Beijing since 1948. As the party's flagship organ it sets the tone for official policy communication across China, and its online edition, people.com.cn, ranks among the country's most-visited news sites, publishing in Chinese with several foreign-language editions.
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People's Daily is positioned toward the editorial center of China's media spectrum, or its orientation is mixed or not consistently classified by the major media-bias assessments. Crosswire groups China outlets into left, center and right so you can read the same day's events from more than one vantage point: seeing People's Daily beside outlets of a different orientation makes editorial choices — which stories lead, which framing is used, what gets omitted — far easier to spot than reading any single source alone.
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