Chinese President Xi Jinping commended the overseas edition of the People's Daily for the achievements in spreading China's voice in the lead-up to its 30th anniversary, according to an official statement on Thursday.
In an instruction to the newspaper, Xi expressed hopes that the paper tells China stories and spreads China voices in ways that better connect overseas readers, and to become bridges that build trust and dissolve misunderstanding.
Liu Yunshan, member of the Standing Committee of the Political Bureau of the Communist Party of China (CPC) Central Committee, and Liu Qibao, head of the CPC Central Committee's Publicity Department also instructed the paper to innovate and to help boost China's overseas media influence.
The overseas edition of the Peoples's Daily, with a target audience of overseas Chinese and Chinese-learning foreigners, has a circulation of 600,000 copies across 86 countries and regions.
Its website registers a daily traffic of 13 million visits, and its mobile application has more than 2.5 million subscribers.
