The People's Daily is an organ newspaper of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of China.

People's Daily was founded in Lizhuang, Pingshan County, Hebei Province on June 15, 1948. It was formed by the merger of Shanxi Chaji Daily and Shanxi Hebei Shandong Henan People's Daily. It is the organ newspaper of the North China Bureau of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of China, and it also serves as the organ newspaper of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of China. Comrade Mao Zedong wrote an autograph for the People's Daily. On March 15, 1949, the People's Daily moved to Beijing (then called Beiping) with the Party Central Committee. On August 1, 1949, the CPC Central Committee decided that the People's Daily should be the organ newspaper of the CPC Central Committee, and the issue number of June 15, 1948 was followed.

The People's Daily is responsible for publicizing the Party's theories, lines, principles and policies, publicizing the major decisions and arrangements of the Central Committee, publicizing the Party's propositions, promoting social integrity, understanding social conditions and public opinion, guiding social hot spots, channeling public sentiment, doing well in public opinion supervision, timely disseminating information in various fields at home and abroad, reporting major events in the world and making comments. People's Daily is the largest newspaper in China, and was rated as one of the top ten newspapers in the world by UNESCO in 1992.

Since its inception, under the strong leadership of the Party Central Committee, the People's Daily has adhered to the principle of politicians running newspapers and party spirit, worked with the Party and the people with one heart and one mind, deeply publicized the Party's theory, line, principles and policies, and enthusiastically reported on the great practices of the people. It has played a very important role in various historical periods of revolution, construction, and reform, and created a glorious history.

The Party Central Committee attaches great importance to the People's Daily. Comrade Mao Zedong and Deng Xiaoping wrote and reviewed important articles for the People's Daily in person. Comrade Jiang Zemin and Hu Jintao visited the People's Daily and delivered important speeches. General Secretary Xi Jinping has repeatedly given important instructions and instructions to the work of the People's Daily. In May 2015, we made important instructions on the 30th anniversary of the People's Daily overseas edition. On July 25, 2016, we sent congratulatory letters to the 2016 "Belt and Road" Media Cooperation Forum hosted by the People's Daily, on June 15, 2018, we sent congratulatory letters to the 70th anniversary of the People's Daily, and on April 23, 2019, we sent congratulatory letters to the first council meeting of the "Belt and Road" News Cooperation Alliance held in the People's Daily, Give cordial care and warm encouragement to the work of People's Daily.

General Secretary Xi Jinping fully recognized the important role played by the People's Daily as the organ of the Party Central Committee. On February 19, 2016, he went to the People's Daily to investigate and make important instructions. The General Secretary pointed out that "the whole party and the whole people are looking for spiritual strength and 'fixed stars' from the People's Daily", and said that "the Party Central Committee supports you, and I also support you". On January 25, 2019, he led the comrades of the Political Bureau of the Central Committee to hold the 12th collective learning and deliver an important speech on the era of all media and the integrated development of media in the People's Daily. The General Secretary stressed that "the People's Daily is the organ newspaper of the Party Central Committee. One newspaper connects the Party spirit above and the people's heart below. We should make the People's Daily better, expand its geographical coverage, crowd coverage and content coverage, and give full play to its guiding, banner and leading role in public opinion. "

General Secretary Xi Jinping's series of important instructions and instructions have pointed out the direction of efforts for the People's Daily to do a good job in various work in the new era, and provided the fundamental compliance.

The People's Daily adheres to Marxism Leninism, Mao Zedong Thought, Deng Xiaoping Theory, the important thought of "Three Represents", and the Scientific Outlook on Development, comprehensively implements Xi Jinping's Thought on Socialism with Chinese Characteristics for a New Era, deeply understands the decisive significance of the "two establishment", strengthens the "four consciousness", strengthens the "four self-confidence", achieves the "two maintenance", and keeps in mind the "big country" We should thoroughly study and implement the important statements of General Secretary Xi Jinping on ideological work, propaganda and ideological work, news and public opinion work, and the spirit of the important instructions and instructions on the work of the People's Daily, consciously assume the mission of raising the flag, gathering the hearts of the people, cultivating new people, promoting culture, and displaying image, faithfully carry out the banner, guide the direction, and unite the people around the center and serve the overall situation We should encourage morale, become a man of style, unite our hearts, clarify mistakes, distinguish between right and wrong, connect China and foreign countries, and communicate with the world. We should adhere to the correct political direction, public opinion orientation, and value orientation, make progress while maintaining stability, and be honest and innovative. We should improve innovative publicity and reporting, promote in-depth media integration, strengthen international communication capacity building, and promote high-quality career development New progress and achievements have been made in strengthening Party building and team building.

The People's Daily focuses on giving play to its advantages in comments, theories and in-depth reports, focusing on public opinion guidance and supervision, and effectively conducting international public opinion guidance and public opinion struggle. People's Daily has 20 pages on weekdays and 8 pages on Saturdays, Sundays and Holidays, all of which are color printed, forming a layout of news stories, critical theories and weekly supplements that complement each other. "Editorial", "Commentator of Our Newspaper", "Ren Zhongping", "Ren Ping", "Guojiping", "Ren Lixuan" and other key comments on brands, and "Today's Talk", "People's Forum", "People's Current Review", "Bell", "Harmony", "People's livelihood", "Walk on the front line", "Red Boat", "Sports", "Vertical and Horizontal", "Everyone's Writings" and other speech columns continue to expand in influence, "micro lens" "Micro observation", "People observation", "Journalist survey", "Policy interpretation", "Decoding" and other columns are popular with readers. "Reader letters", "New countryside", "Holiday life", "Industry and economy", "Consumption", "Science and technology", "Party building", "Democratic politics", "National defense", "Earth", "Literary criticism", "Fine arts", "Cultural heritage" and other weekly magazines and "Visual" The special edition forms distinctive features. In 2021, the circulation of People's Daily will be 3.46 million, achieving a steady growth for 19 consecutive years.

The People's Daily has deeply promoted the in-depth integration and development of media, accelerated the pace of integration in institutional mechanisms, policy measures, process management, talent technology and other aspects, and has developed into a new mainstream media with more than 10 carriers, including newspapers, magazines, websites, terminals, WeChat, and screens. People's Daily Online is one of the largest comprehensive online media on the Internet. The CPC News Network, which is hosted by People's Daily Online, is an authoritative website to publicize the CPC's theories, lines, guidelines and policies; The user activity of the People's Daily client remains ahead of the mainstream media news client; The corporate microblog of People's Daily maintains the advantage of "the first microblog of Chinese media"; People's Daily's WeChat official account ranks first in the WeChat platform in terms of communication power and influence; The number of people's daily twitter account fans ranks first in the twitter platform; Overseas users of the English client of People's Daily rank first in the English client of domestic mainstream media; The "People's Number" mobile new media aggregation platform and the national party media information public platform provide content production and distribution services for a large number of mainstream media, party and government organs, colleges and universities, and high-quality We Media; The People's Daily e-reading column is an important integrated communication platform that extends to the grassroots, buildings and the masses.

The People's Daily focuses on strengthening its international communication capacity, telling Chinese stories and spreading Chinese voices, showing the world a true, three-dimensional and comprehensive China, and striving to create a credible, lovely and respectable image of China. Undertake the daily work of the secretariat of the "Belt and Road" News Cooperation Alliance and the selection of the "Silk Road Award" for international communication. Deeply carry out regional institutionalized international media exchange activities such as the 10+3 media cooperation seminar and the China Japan South Korea journalists' dialogue. It pioneered the custom push mode, established content cooperation relationships with mainstream media in more than 80 countries, and the content of People's Daily was launched globally with the help of foreign media. People's Daily has the largest number of fans and activeness of overseas social media accounts in the world. The brand influence of People's Daily has been growing, and its ranking in the world's top 500 brands has climbed steadily for 13 consecutive years since 2008.

The People's Daily has actively carried out foreign exchanges and cooperation. In terms of media exchanges and cooperation, the "Belt and Road" News Cooperation Alliance Council Meeting and the "Belt and Road" Media Cooperation Forum organized and held by China's media have become the largest global media cooperation event with the largest number of participating countries and foreign media. China Brand Forum, Media Integration Development Forum, Party Newspaper Comment Integration Development Forum, etc. have been held for many times, and good social benefits have been achieved.

The People's Daily has 23 internal offices, one affiliated institution (new media center), and 72 local offices (31 branches in all provinces, autonomous regions, and municipalities directly under the Central Government, respectively in Hong Kong Special Administrative Region and Macao Special Administrative Region, and 39 branches abroad). The Central Commission for Discipline Inspection and the State Supervision Commission stationed a discipline inspection and supervision team in the People's Daily.

On July 1, 1985, the overseas edition of People's Daily was founded, which is the most authoritative comprehensive Chinese daily issued by China to the outside world. It is mainly targeted at overseas Chinese, Hong Kong, Macao and Taiwan compatriots, overseas students in various countries and regions, foreigners learning Chinese and other audience groups, and distributed to more than 80 countries and regions. The overseas edition of People's Daily actively develops overseas cooperation and vigorously expands overseas distribution. There are 35 overseas Chinese media cooperation media; The full media matrix with the overseas version of People's Daily as the backbone, including the overseas website, learning group, Xiake Island, etc., has further expanded, and the international communication influence has significantly increased.

People's Daily edited and published People's Daily, People's Daily Overseas Edition and People's Daily Tibetan Edition. The newspapers in charge of hosting are Global Times, China Auto News, Health Times, Securities Times, News Front, People's Forum, Global People, New Security, China Economic Weekly, People's Daily, National Human History, and China Energy News International Financial News and other newspapers in charge include Global Times English, Life Times, Satire and Humor, China City Daily, People's Weekly, Academic Frontiers, National Governance Weekly, Cars and Sports, Commercial Vehicle News, Ping An Campus, Online Public Opinion, Ideological and Theoretical Dynamics, Party Building, and Rule of Law.

The current president of the People's Daily: Tuo Zhen. Successive presidents: Zhang Panshi, Hu Qiaomu, Fan Changjiang, Deng Tuo, Hu Jiwei, Qin Chuan, Qian Liren, Gao Di, Shao Huaze, Bai Keming, Xu Zhongtian, Wang Chen, Zhang Yannong, Yang Zhenwu, Li Baoshan.

Current editor in chief: Yu Shaoliang. Successive chief editors: Deng Tuo, Wu Lengxi, Tang Pingzhu, Hu Jiwei, Qin Chuan, Li Zhuang, Tan Wenrui, Shao Huaze, Fan Jingyi, Xu Zhongtian, Wang Chen, Zhang Yannong, Wu Hengquan, Cai Mingzhao, Yang Zhenwu, Li Baoshan, Tuo Zhen.

Address: No. 2, Jintai West Road, Chaoyang District, Beijing

Postal code: 100733

(May 2022)