Beijing Times

Beijing Times

Type	Daily newspaper
Format	Print
Owner(s)	People's Daily
Founded	2001
Language	Chinese

The Beijing Times (simplified Chinese: 京华时报; traditional Chinese: 京華時報; pinyin: Jīnghuá Shíbào) is a Chinese newspaper published in Beijing owned by the People's Daily.

History

Beijing Times was launched in May 2001.[1] 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".[2]

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 province.[3] 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).[3]

In 2023, a seemingly unrelated pro-Chinese Communist Party news website called the Beijing Times began publication. The news website contains no identified human reporters and photos of its reporters appear AI-generated.[4]

References

1. Lyhne-Gold, Bertie (2025-01-06). "The Many Faces of the People's Daily". China Media Project. Retrieved 2025-01-08.
2. Tang, Wenfang and Shanto Iyengar. Political Communication China Media. Routledge, September 13, 2013. ISBN 1135709920, 9781135709921. p. 12. "As illustrated in Figure OA1 in the online appendix, both papers have declined in popularity over time, thus experiencing competitive pressure from the Beijing Times (Jinghua Shibao) and other commercialized papers emerging in the early 2000s. This paper was founded in 2001 as part of the People's Daily Group. The Beijing Times immediately started out with 12% of readers in Beijing with a rising tendency,[...]"
3. Zhao, Lei. "Nongfu Spring accuses Beijing Times of defamation." China Daily. November 5, 2013. Retrieved on April 10, 2014.
4. van Sant, Shannon (September 6, 2024). "Murky Media Network Aligns with Beijing on Sensitive Issues". China Brief. Jamestown Foundation. Archived from the original on September 7, 2024. Retrieved September 8, 2024.

External links

• Beijing Times (in Chinese)