People's Daily revamped

After launching its first English language tabloid newspaper last month, the People's Daily plans to kick off its fourth revamp next month to increase its influence at home and abroad, the newspaper said yesterday.

It will increase its daily publication pages from 16 to 20 pages on July 1 and beef up its 72 domestic and overseas branches.

The to-be-added news pages will mainly cover China news, international news, literary commentary and feature stories. The aim is to "better spread the central government's policies, report from both domestic and overseas fronts, strengthen the publication of the socialism theory with Chinese characteristics and Marxism literature theory," it said.