People’s Daily

Early Reviews of China's State Web Products: Underwhelming

Loretta Chao, Reporter, The Wall Street Journal in News on March 8, 2011 at 5:00 pm PT

State media outlets People’s Daily, Xinhua and China Central Television are betting on microblogging, search engines and other Internet products for future growth. Some say their deep pockets may help them become legitimate competitors in China’s Internet sector—but until then, there will be plenty of skeptics to win over.

The Chinese State Enters Online Search

Owen Fletcher, Reporter, The Wall Street Journal in News on August 16, 2010 at 10:29 am PT

Plans to build a search engine by China Mobile Communications and Xinhua News Agency mark at least the second time China’s state-run media have tried to enter the online search market. Xinhua, in a news story about itself, said Thursday it signed a framework agreement with China Mobile, the world’s largest mobile carrier by subscribers, to launch a search joint venture.

China's Cyberwars

James T. Areddy, Reporter, The Wall Street Journal in News on November 19, 2009 at 3:46 pm PT

China’s military is under attack. At least its Web site is…from hackers. In a sign that China’s Ministry of National Defense faces the same kind of Internet security challenges that militaries around the world have reported, its new Web site was attacked more than 2.3 million times within a month of its August launch. The state-run People’s Daily newspaper reported that revelation Wednesday in an interview with the editor-in-chief of the Chinese defense department’s site, Ji Guilin.