The ''Beijing Times'' () was a Chinese newspaper published in
Beijing
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that is a part of the
People's Daily
The ''People's Daily'' () is the official newspaper of the Central Committee of the Chinese Communist Party (CCP). The newspaper provides direct information on the policies and viewpoints of the CCP. In addition to its main Chinese-language ...
Group. When it started in 2001 it 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".
[Tang, Wenfang and Shanto Iyengar. ''Political Communication China Media''. ]Routledge
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, September 13, 2013. , 9781135709921. p
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"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, ..
On April 10, 2013 the ''Beijing Times'' accused the company
Nongfu Spring
Nongfu Spring (; lit. 'Farmer Spring') is a Chinese bottled water and beverage company headquartered in Xihu District, Hangzhou, Zhejiang province.[Zhejiang
Zhejiang ( or , ; , also romanized as Chekiang) is an eastern, coastal province of the People's Republic of China. Its capital and largest city is Hangzhou, and other notable cities include Ningbo and Wenzhou. Zhejiang is bordered by Jiang ...]
province. This started a dispute between the company and the newspaper.
[Zhao, Lei.]
Nongfu Spring accuses Beijing Times of defamation
" ''China Daily
''China Daily'' () 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 English-language newspaper in China. T ...
''. 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).
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