Website reputation report

chinadaily.com.cn

Last checked 5 days ago · Point-in-time assessment

● Evidence is limited

What is this website?

chinadaily.com.cn is currently classified in the News & Media category based on observed public pages. An About page was also found. Recurring page-metadata topics include china, china daily, world.

No listed local patterns observedHomepage-only analysis is not a malware clearance. Read the scope and findings below.

60/100Safety Score
65%Evidence Confidence
Trust Radar evidence profile Eight evidence dimensions from zero to one hundred. Exact values surround the chart. Threat Intelligence55 Domain History0 Infrastructure88 Website Security83 Security Hygiene45 Transparency58 Reputation50 Operational Stability84
Trust RadarEight observed factors. Select one to inspect its evidence.

How to read this report

Safety Score evaluates observed signals. Evidence Confidence measures how complete, direct, fresh, and consistent those signals are.

No automated scan can guarantee that a website is safe.

Independent evidence brief

What we observed about chinadaily.com.cn

Updated Sep 26, 2026

The latest scan examined 10 public pages on chinadaily.com.cn. Website descriptions below come from the site itself. Registration, connection and threat findings were checked separately.

Purpose and visible content

On its About page, the site says: Some politicians in the United Kingdom made the bizarre claim in British media last week that China could use tractors and other internet-linked agricultural…

Registrar and domain history

A reliable creation date was not returned by the registration lookup. The report leaves domain age unverified rather than guessing.

Connection and hosting evidence

The checked homepage returned HTTP 200 in about 2000 ms.

A valid TLS certificate was observed, expiring Feb 12, 2027.

Threat checks and score context

External malware-provider coverage was unavailable. The report does not treat this missing check as a clean result.

Safety Score: 60/100. Evidence Confidence: 65%. These measure different things.

Public content profile

Pages reviewed on chinadaily.com.cn

10 of up to 10 pages

We sampled public pages from this website to understand its subject and contact paths. The titles and short descriptions below come from the website itself. They are not endorsements or independent safety findings.

China Daily Website - Connecting China Connecting the WorldChinadaily.com.cn is the largest English portal in China, providing news, business information, BBS, learning materials. The Website has channels as China, BizChina, World, Opinion Western politicians need to stop fearmongering about Chinese goods - Opinion - Chinadaily.com.cnSome politicians in the United Kingdom made the bizarre claim in British media last week that China could use tractors and other internet-linked agricultural machinery to spy on fa China Daily Website - Connecting China Connecting the WorldChinadaily.com.cn is the largest English portal in China, providing news, business information, BBS, learning materials. The Website has channels as China, BizChina, World, Opinion China Daily Website - Connecting China Connecting the WorldChinadaily.com.cn is the largest English portal in China, providing news, business information, BBS, learning materials. The Website has channels as China, BizChina, World, Opinion News - Chinadaily.com.cnhttps://www.chinadaily.com.cn/travel/news From the Press - Opinion - Chinadaily.com.cnhttps://www.chinadaily.com.cn/opinion/fromthechinesepress China News - Headlines, Stories & Videos - Chinadaily.com.cnGet the latest China news, breaking China news, China business news, as well as information on China politics, China culture, and China military from the China Daily and chinadaily World News - International Headlines & Foreign Policy News - China DailyGet the latest world news, international news, foreign policy news and foreign affairs news on Africa, America, Asia-Pacific, Europe and Middle East from the China Daily and chinad Business News - China Economy & Company - chinadaily.com.cnGet China business news, China economic headlines, China statistics, market, companies, and all about China business information from China Daily and chinadaily.com.cn. Culture, Entertainment and Art - Culture news, Chinese culture,Pop Culture - chinadaily.com.cnThe latest arts, culture and entertainment news. Your source for arts, movies, music, theatre, books and TV reviews and previews from chinadaily.com.cn.

Public page evidence

Topics and keywords observed on chinadaily.com.cn

12 phrases

These phrases were extracted locally from sampled public page metadata. They are observations, not search-volume or ranking estimates.

chinaTitle, H1, Meta description7 sampled pages
china dailyTitle, H1, Meta description6 sampled pages
worldTitle, Meta description4 sampled pages
businessTitle, Meta description5 sampled pages
opinionTitle, Meta description5 sampled pages
as china bizchinaMeta description3 sampled pages
bbs learning materialsMeta description3 sampled pages
bizchina world opinionMeta description3 sampled pages
english portal inMeta description3 sampled pages
has channels asMeta description3 sampled pages
in china providingMeta description3 sampled pages
largest englishMeta description3 sampled pages

At a glance

Key findings

✓

Report is current

The displayed evidence comes from the published immutable scan.

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Confidence is separate

Unavailable evidence is shown as missing and never counted as clean.

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Verify before sensitive actions

Check the exact URL and context before payments, credentials, or downloads.

Fully explainable

Why this score?

Versioned weights
Threat IntelligenceWeight 25%
55/100

Threat providers were unavailable. The neutral uncertainty baseline is not a clean verdict.

Domain HistoryWeight 10%
0/100

Evidence is unavailable.

InfrastructureWeight 10%
88/100

Observed DNS records and network address were checked.

Website SecurityWeight 15%
83/100

Observed certificate validity and TLS protocol were checked.

Security HygieneWeight 15%
45/100

Observed security header values were checked for basic protective settings. Empty values, disabled HSTS and unrecognized values receive no credit. This is not a complete browser-policy validation.

TransparencyWeight 5%
58/100

Observed site metadata and About page were checked. Publisher-supplied details are not independently verified.

ReputationWeight 5%
50/100

Popularity is weak context, not proof of safety. Unranked sites use a neutral baseline.

Operational StabilityWeight 15%
84/100

Observed HTTP status and final connection scheme were checked.

Server-side analysis

Automated security checks

Homepage HTML only · Eight local rule families · local-security-v1

Checks use the fetched page and redirect chain. Scripts are not executed, forms are not submitted, and linked files are not downloaded. This is not a malware clearance.

No listed local patterns observed. The limited rule set cannot detect every threat or behavior.

External threat intelligence

Provider coverageNot checked

Local checks do not query external reputation databases. An unavailable check is never a clean result.

Registration

Domain information

Public RDAP observation
Canonical domainchinadaily.com.cn
RegistrarUnavailable
RegisteredUnavailable
Domain ageUnavailable
ExpiresUnavailable
Registry statusesUnavailable
Report statePublished

Infrastructure

Network & hosting

Observed endpoint, not legal location
IP address111.13.49.147
Autonomous systemUnavailable
Network organizationUnavailable
Observed countryUnavailable
CDNNot detected
Web application firewallNot detected

At a glance

Infrastructure summary

Observed during this scan

A compact view of the connection, DNS and security surface. These observations describe what the scanner could verify at scan time and do not prove ownership or ongoing availability.

HTTP response200 · https://www.chinadaily.com.cn
Endpoint111.13.49.147
NetworkUnavailable
CDN and WAFNot detected · Not detected
DNS surface9 records · 4 nameservers · 2 mail exchangers
Protection signals1 security headers · 0 technologies · DNSSEC unknown

Page telemetry

Observed page statistics

Safe metadata only

These counters describe the fetched response and sampled HTML. Script counts describe references in the markup, not a complete browser network log. Cookie counts cover observed response headers.

Response size119,599 bytes
HTTP check duration2,000 ms
Cookies observedUnavailable
Script resourcesUnavailable · Unavailable external hosts
Frames and sampled checksUnavailable frames · Unavailable resources checked

Encrypted transport

TLS certificate

Valid when observed
StatusValid when observed
ProtocolTLSv1.2
IssuercountryName=CN, organizationName=WoTrus CA Limited, commonName=WoTrus RSA OV SSL CA 2
Valid fromJan 12, 2026
Valid untilFeb 12, 2027
Certificate names*.chinadaily.com.cn · chinadaily.com.cn

Resolution

DNS footprint

DNSKEY status unknown

DNSKEY presence does not verify the DNSSEC signature chain. Missing records can mean no record was returned or the lookup was unavailable.

A111.13.49.147TTL —
NScns1.zdnscloud.netTTL —
NSdns1.zdnscloud.infoTTL —
NSins1.zdnscloud.comTTL —
NSvns1.zdnscloud.bizTTL —
MX1 mx-chinadaily-com-cn.icoremail.netTTL —
MX10 mx.chinadaily.com.cnTTL —
TXT1EDF-7EF1-1DB7-9F3B-C173-9B55-A3AB-42BFTTL —
TXTv=spf1 ip4:95.130.192.227 ip4:125.35.18.52 ip4:125.35.18.63 include:spf.icoremail.net -allTTL —

Responsible disclosure

security.txt

RFC 9116 observation

No readable security.txt file was observed at the standard locations. This is informational and is not evidence of malware.

Browser protections

Security headers

1 observed
x-content-type-optionspresent nosniff

Response headers

Cookie protections

Passive observation

No Set-Cookie header was observed on the sampled homepage response. Other pages may set cookies separately.

Detected stack

Technologies

Not confidently detected

Versions are shown only when publicly exposed by the page or response headers. An observed version is not, by itself, proof of a vulnerability.

JavaScript library advisories

JavaScript advisory analysis was not recorded for this scan.

About this website

What the site says about itself

Some politicians in the United Kingdom made the bizarre claim in British media last week that China could use tractors and other internet-linked agricultural machinery to spy on farmers there.

View the site's About page ↗

This is publisher supplied information. The independent safety findings are shown separately.

Publisher supplied

Public contact details

These details were observed on the website, not independently verified as an active support channel.

Emailrx@chinadaily.com.cnSource: https://www.chinadaily.com.cn/e/static_e/contact
Emailprcd@chinadaily.com.cnSource: https://www.chinadaily.com.cn/e/static_e/contact
Emailcirculation@chinadaily.com.cnSource: https://www.chinadaily.com.cn/e/static_e/contact
Emailenquiries@mail.chinadailyuk.comSource: https://www.chinadaily.com.cn/e/static_e/contact
Emailsubscription@mail.chinadailyuk.comSource: https://www.chinadaily.com.cn/e/static_e/contact
Emailreaders@chinadailyusa.comSource: https://www.chinadaily.com.cn/e/static_e/contact

Structured facts

Website identity & response

Public page metadata
Page titleChina Daily Website - Connecting China Connecting the World
First headingUnavailable
DescriptionChinadaily.com.cn is the largest English portal in China, providing news, business information, BBS, learning materials. The Website has channels as China, BizChina, World, Opinion, Sports/Olympics, Entertainment, Lifestyle, Culture, Citylife, Photo, Forum and Weather.
Canonical URLhttps://www.chinadaily.com.cn
Final URLhttps://www.chinadaily.com.cn
HTTP response200 · text/html;charset=UTF-8 · 2000 ms
LanguageUnknown
Structured typesNone observed

Connection path

Redirect chain

1 recorded hops
Hop 1https://www.chinadaily.com.cn

The chain is shown exactly as observed by the scanner. A redirect is not itself a malware finding, but unexpected domains or an HTTP downgrade deserve review.

Premium monitoring

Catch downtime and security changes automatically

Regular checks, availability history, and alert emails are reserved for Premium websites. Free reports remain point-in-time scans and do not create recurring server work.

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Compared with the previous scan

What changed

Safety ScoreNo comparable score
HTTP statusUnavailable → 200
Final URL changedYes
Technologies addedNone observed
Technologies removedNone observed

This comparison uses persisted scan evidence only. A changed signal can reflect a real website change, a different response or newly available evidence.

Explainable matching

Digital fingerprint

fingerprint-v1
clear-beacon-ring-797

Comparable components help find technically related websites. A match does not prove common ownership.

DnsHashed private comparison value
TechnologiesHashed private comparison value

Material changes only

Change history

No meaningful changes recorded yet.

Website icon for chinadaily.com.cn

Visual evidence

Website screenshot

Screenshot of chinadaily.com.cn
Earlier browser capture retained because this scan did not produce a usable replacement. It is not fresh scan evidence.

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Questions about chinadaily.com.cn

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Is chinadaily.com.cn safe to visit?

The latest Safety Score is 60/100 with 65% Evidence Confidence. This is a point-in-time assessment of observed technical signals, not a guarantee. Check the exact address and avoid entering payment details if anything looks unusual.

Did the scan detect malware on chinadaily.com.cn?

External threat-provider coverage was unavailable for this scan, so malware status is unverified.

When was chinadaily.com.cn registered?

The registry lookup did not provide a reliable creation date in this scan.

Did chinadaily.com.cn have a valid TLS certificate?

The scanner observed a valid TLS certificate using TLSv1.2. A valid certificate alone does not establish that the site is safe.

How does chinadaily.com.cn describe itself?

The website's About page describes its purpose in the report above. This is publisher-supplied information and is separate from independent security findings.

Can a paid listing change this website's score?

No. Premium placement and owner-supplied pages are labelled separately. Technical evidence, the Safety Score and moderation decisions remain independent.