Nanfang Daily

Chinese Communist Party newspaper

Nanfang Daily

Type	Daily newspaper
Format	Print, online
Owner(s)	Guangdong provincial committee of the Chinese Communist Party
Founded	23 October 1949; 74 years ago (1949-10-23)
Language	Chinese
Website	epaper.southcn.com

Nanfang Daily

Simplified Chinese

南方日报

Traditional Chinese

南方日報

Literal meaning

Southern Daily

Transcriptions
Standard Mandarin
Hanyu Pinyin	Nánfāng rìbào
Yue: Cantonese
Yale Romanization	nàahm fōng yaht bou
Jyutping	naam4 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.^[3]

History

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.^[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.

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.^[8]

References

^ 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.
^ Chinese Newspaper Navigator: Top 100 Newspaper Silhouettes. China Financial & Economic Publishing House. 1 October 2017. pp. 154–. ISBN 978-7-5095-7438-6.
^ First issue of Chinese newspaper. People's Daily Press. 2001. pp. 116–. ISBN 978-7-80153-387-6.
^ "Communist Party of China's Press Policy and Historical Effects before and after 1949" (PDF). Twenty-First Century. June 30, 2008.
^ "Chen Xiaoping: The Kuomintang regime moved the Capital to Guangzhou in 1949". Thepaper.cn. 2019-12-16.
^ Wang Jianping (6 February 2018). China Culture Enterprise Report 2015. Tsinghua University Press. pp. 50–. ISBN 978-7-302-39764-9.
^ "Chinese News & Media". Brown University. Archived from the original on 1 February 2019. Retrieved 30 July 2020.