China Desk · Live — collecting
PLA Daily (解放军报)
Published by CMC Political Work Department (中央军事委员会政治工作部). Part of the China Desk, currently live — collecting.
| Source identifier | pla_daily |
|---|---|
| Desk | China Desk |
| Institution | CMC Political Work Department |
| Source type | Armed forces newspaper |
| Authority tier | B |
| Original language | zh-Hans |
| Official base URL | https://www.81.cn |
| Enabled for collection | Yes |
| Records held | 315 |
| Share of the whole record | 36.1% |
| Earliest item | 2026-05-07 |
| Latest item | 2026-10-15 |
| Most recent run outcome | Collected — Reached the listing and stored new items. |
How this source is positioned
Authority tier B describes how close this publication sits to the institution's authorized public position. It is not a reliability score, and nothing here treats it as one. The source type — armed forces newspaper — describes what kind of body publishes it.
What a record from this source can support
That this institution published a specific item on a specific date, and what its original text was at the time it was retrieved. Not that the institution believes it, not that a described capability exists, and not that coverage of this source is complete — see Coverage for what each run actually returned, and Methodology for the limits.