Nanfang Daily

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Nanfang Daily
TypeDaily newspaper
FormatPrint, online
OwnerGuangdong Provincial Committee of the Chinese Communist Party
Founded23 October 1949; 76 years ago (1949-10-23)
Political alignmentChinese Communist Party
LanguageChinese
Nanfang Daily
Simplified Chinese南方日报
Traditional Chinese南方日報
Literal meaningSouthern Daily
Transcriptions
Standard Mandarin
Hanyu PinyinNánfāng rìbào
Yue: Cantonese
Yale Romanizationnàahm fōng yaht bou
Jyutpingnaam4 fong1 jat6 bou3

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

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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 (zh) 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

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References

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