The ''Beijing Times'' () is a Chinese newspaper published in
Beijing
Beijing, Chinese postal romanization, previously romanized as Peking, is the capital city of China. With more than 22 million residents, it is the world's List of national capitals by population, most populous national capital city as well as ...
owned by the ''
People's Daily
The ''People's Daily'' ( zh, s=人民日报, p=Rénmín Rìbào) is the official newspaper of the Central Committee of the Chinese Communist Party (CCP). It provides direct information on the policies and viewpoints of the CCP in multiple lan ...
''.
History
''Beijing Times'' was launched in May 2001. When it started, ''Beijing Times'' had 12% of the Beijing newspaper market and its percentage increased afterwards. Tang Wenfang and Shanto Iyengar, authors of ''Political Communication China Media'', described the paper as one of the "commercialized papers emerging in the early 2000s".
On April 10, 2013, the ''Beijing Times'' accused the company
Nongfu Spring of intentionally not adopting Chinese national water standards and instead adopting the lower standards of
Zhejiang
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province.
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Nongfu Spring accuses Beijing Times of defamation
" ''China Daily
''China Daily'' ( zh, s=中国日报, p=Zhōngguó Rìbào) is an English-language daily newspaper owned by the Central Propaganda Department of the Chinese Communist Party.
Overview
''China Daily'' has the widest print circulation of any ...
''. November 5, 2013. Retrieved on April 10, 2014. In November 2013, the company accused the ''Beijing Times'' of defamation and filed a lawsuit in the Beijing Second Intermediate People's Court against the newspaper, demanding 60 million yuan (US$9.85 million).
In 2023, a seemingly unrelated pro-
Chinese Communist Party
The Communist Party of China (CPC), also translated into English as Chinese Communist Party (CCP), is the founding and One-party state, sole ruling party of the People's Republic of China (PRC). Founded in 1921, the CCP emerged victorious in the ...
news website called the ''Beijing Times'' began publication. The news website contains no identified human reporters and photos of its reporters appear
AI-generated.
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Newspapers published in Beijing
2001 establishments in China
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