People's Daily Online is a state media company controlled by the People's Daily Press, the publisher of the People's Daily, the official newspaper of the Central Committee of the Chinese Communist Party. Formerly the online version of the People's Daily, it was officially launched on January 1, 1997. The company is listed on the Shanghai Stock Exchange. People's Daily Online has 17 versions in 16 languages, including Chinese, English, Japanese, French, German, Spanish, Russian, Arabic, Korean, Mongolian, Tibetan, Uyghur, Kazakh, Korean, Yi, and Zhuang. It has 31 branches in mainland China and overseas branches in South Korea, Japan, Russia, the United Kingdom, South Africa and the United States. On March 19, 2013, People's Daily Online opened a branch in Hong Kong. Wikipedia