Tang, Wenfang and Shanto Iyengar. Political Communication China Media. Routledge, September 13, 2013. ISBN1135709920, 9781135709921. p. 12. "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,[...]"