Nanfang Daily
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| Type | Daily newspaper |
|---|---|
| Format | Print, online |
| Owner(s) | Guangdong Provincial Committee of the Chinese Communist Party |
| Founded | 23 October 1949 |
| Political alignment | Chinese Communist Party |
| Language | Chinese |
| Website | epaper |
| Nanfang Daily | |||||||||||||
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| Simplified Chinese | 南方日报 | ||||||||||||
| Traditional Chinese | 南方日報 | ||||||||||||
| Literal meaning | Southern Daily | ||||||||||||
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The Nanfang Daily (traditional Chinese: 南方日報; simplified Chinese: 南方日报; pinyin: Nánfāng rìbào), also known as Southern Daily[1] and Nanfang Ribao,[2] is the official newspaper of the Guangdong Provincial Committee of the Chinese Communist Party and published by the Nanfang Media Group, a state-owned media conglomerate.[3]
History
[edit]The paper was established in Guangzhou on 23 October 1949.[4]
Eight days prior, Ye Jianying arrived in Guangzhou, surrounded and disarmed all speculators, and arrested more than ten journalists for re-education.[5] The premises and equipment of the Kuomintang's Central Daily were immediately seized and taken over. The paper was changed to Nanfang Daily, first published on 23 October 1949.[6]
The newspaper is eponymous to the more lively and commercial Southern Metropolis Daily and part of the giant Nanfang Daily Newspaper Group.[7] In March 2018, Nanfang Daily won the Third National Top 100 Newspapers in China.[8][9][10]
An article from Brown University pointed out that Nanfang Daily has superior reporting and a somewhat higher level of frankness than many mainstream press outlets in China.[11]
In 2025, the Nanfang Media Group established four platforms – IP Guangdong, INFO Guangdong, LIVE Guangdong, and GO Guangdong – to attract content creators and foreign influencers to better project soft power.[3]
See also
[edit]- Hua Shang Daily – predecessor of Southern Daily
References
[edit]- ^ Jack Linchuan Qiu (1 December 2017). Media and Society in Networked China. Brill Publishers. pp. 62–. ISBN 978-90-04-35514-9.
- ^ Audrey Donnithorne (18 October 2013). China's Economic System. Routledge. pp. 109–. ISBN 978-1-136-56993-7.
- ^ a b Bandurski, David (2025-07-15). "Backyard Furnaces of Propaganda". China Media Project. Retrieved 2025-07-15.
- ^ First issue of Chinese newspaper (in Chinese). People's Daily Press. 2001. pp. 116–. ISBN 978-7-80153-387-6.
- ^ "1949年前後中共的新聞政策 及歷史效應" [Chinese Communist Party's Press Policy and Historical Effects before and after 1949] (PDF). Twenty-First Century (in Chinese). June 30, 2008. Archived (PDF) from the original on October 6, 2022. Retrieved July 30, 2020.
- ^ "陈晓平：1949年国民党政权"迁都"广州" [Chen Xiaoping: The Kuomintang regime moved the Capital to Guangzhou in 1949]. The Paper (in Chinese). 2019-12-16. Archived from the original on 2022-05-28. Retrieved 2020-07-30.
- ^ Wang Jianping (6 February 2018). China Culture Enterprise Report 2015. Tsinghua University Press. pp. 50–. ISBN 978-7-302-39764-9.
- ^ 赵新乐（中国新闻出版广电报） (2018-01-16). "2017年全国"百强报刊"推荐名单开始公示". Economic Daily (in Chinese). Archived from the original on 2020-11-05. Retrieved 2021-02-10.
- ^ "第三届全国"百强报刊"公布 这份名单是怎么产生的". People's Daily (in Chinese). 2018-03-06. Retrieved 2025-02-06.
- ^ "第三届全国"百强报刊" 推荐结果出炉". Xinhua News Agency (in Chinese). Archived from the original on 2025-03-24. Retrieved 2025-02-06.
- ^ "Chinese News & Media". Brown University. Archived from the original on 1 February 2019. Retrieved 30 July 2020.