About Us

 About Us

People's Daily Online, founded on January 1, 1997, is a publicly traded media and culture company, with People's Daily having a controlling stake.

Taking content as its core, People's Daily Online has taken steps to further refine and strengthen its content creation, and expand its business activities in the areas of operations, risk control as well as the aggregation and distribution of content.

In addition to its Chinese version, People's Daily Online publishes editions in seven ethnic minority languages and 18 foreign languages, demonstrating a strong capacity for high-quality content production. The foreign language editions include English, French, Russian, Arabic, Spanish, Japanese, Korean, German, Portuguese, Kiswahili, Italian, Kazakh (Cyrillic script), Thai, Malay, Greek, Vietnamese, Urdu, and Hindi.

People's Daily Online has endeavored to develop its content business in four fields: opinion and commentary, in-depth stories, policy analysis and policy recommendations. The database of Xi Jinping's speeches has been visited 1.44 billion times, making it an important source of information for foreign media outlets in their reports on China.

People's Daily Online operates more than 50 accounts on major international social media platforms, including Facebook, X (formerly Twitter), YouTube, Instagram, LINE, TikTok, and VKontakte. These accounts, which include the overseas social media presence of both People's Daily and People's Daily Online, collectively have more than 190 million followers, placing the organization among the leading global mainstream media outlets. Through these platforms, People's Daily Online presents a true, multi-dimensional, and all-round image of China to international audiences.

People's Daily Online has more than 940 million readers on various media platforms, including its websites, mobile apps, and social media platforms, among other formats.

Using the mobile app "People's Daily Online Plus" as an umbrella platform, People's Daily Online operates the Leaders' Message Board, People's Doctors, People's Video, a Party building app, a shopping app, and a consumer rights protection platform, providing various services for people to pursue better lives.

People's Daily Online has established the State Key Laboratory of Communication Content Cognition, which is administered by People's Daily, having primarily established a ConTech system.

On April 27, 2012, People's Daily Online went public on the Shanghai Stock Exchange (code: 603000).

People's Daily Online has a number of subsidiaries. The industry funds under the management of People's Daily Online have invested in dozens of different projects.

People's Daily Online has set up 14 subsidiary companies or representative offices outside the mainland, including in Hong Kong, Japan, the United States, South Korea, South Africa, the United Kingdom, Russia, Australia, Sweden, France and Thailand.

People's Daily Online has built a multilingual, multi-platform and all-media communication system in line with the trends of globalization and integration.

People's Daily Online collaborates with foreign newspapers, magazines, television stations, and new media platforms in various forms, including submitting articles, providing columns, co-productions TV shows, and jointly building databases.

(Data as of May 2025)

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