The ''Nanfang Daily'' (), also known as ''Southern Daily'' and ''Nanfang Ribao'', is the official

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of the Guangdong provincial committee of the

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. The paper was established in

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on October 23, 1949. On October 15, 1949,

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arrived in

, surrounded and disarmed all speculators, and arrested more than ten

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s for re-education. The premises and equipment of the

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's '' Central Daily'' were immediately seized and taken over. The paper was changed to ''Nanfang Daily'', first published on October 23. The newspaper is eponymous to the more lively and commercial ''

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'' and part of the giant Nanfang Daily Newspaper Group. 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

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than many mainstream press outlets of the

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* 1949 establishments in China Chinese-language newspapers (Simplified Chinese) Chinese Communist Party newspapers Daily newspapers published in China Newspapers established in 1949 {{PRChina-newspaper-stub

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