Is People's Daily a new media for government affairs?

People's Daily is a new media for government affairs. People's Daily undertakes the important duties of publicizing the Party's theory, line, principles and policies, publicizing the central government's major decision-making arrangements, publicizing the Party's ideas, promoting social integrity, understanding social conditions and public opinion, guiding social hotspots, easing public sentiment, doing a good job in public opinion supervision, timely disseminating information in various fields at home and abroad, reporting major world events and making comments. People's Daily is the newspaper with the largest circulation in China, and 1992 has been rated as one of the top ten newspapers in the world by UNESCO.