Nordic Chinese Times Signs Deal with People’s Daily

In October 2016, the People’s Daily Overseas Edition (人民日報海外版) signed a cooperation agreement with the Nordic Chinese Times (北歐時報) in Beijing. People’s Daily Editorial Board Member and Overseas Edition Editor-in-Chief Wang Shucheng (王樹成) met with Nordic Chinese Times President He Ru (何儒) to reach what they called a “consensus on in-depth cooperation” (深入合作達成共識). Under the agreement, the Nordic Chinese Times would publish four pages of authorized People’s Daily content in each issue, with distribution centered in Stockholm and reaching across five Nordic countries. The Nordic Chinese Times, founded eight years earlier by the Nordic Chinese Chamber of Commerce (北歐中國商會), claimed it would “tell China’s story well” and “spread China’s voice” (講好中國故事，傳播好中國聲音). Despite positioning itself as a “neutral media” (中立媒體), analysis by the China Media Project found that by 2024 the paper’s “China News” section was sourcing 100 percent of its content from Haiwainet (海外網), the People’s Daily‘s overseas platform.