The ''Nanfang Daily'' ( zh, s=南方日报, t=南方日報, p=Nánfāng rìbào, first=t), also known as ''Southern Daily''
and ''Nanfang Ribao'',
is the official
newspaper
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of the
Guangdong Provincial Committee of the Chinese Communist Party
The Guangdong Provincial Committee of the Chinese Communist Party is the provincial committee of the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) in Guangdong, Guangdong Province. The Party Secretary of Guangdong, CCP committee secretary is the highest ranking ...
.
History
The paper was established in
Guangzhou
Guangzhou, Chinese postal romanization, previously romanized as Canton or Kwangchow, is the Capital city, capital and largest city of Guangdong Provinces of China, province in South China, southern China. Located on the Pearl River about nor ...
on 23 October 1949.
Eight days prior,
Ye Jianying
Ye Jianying (; 28 April 1897 – 22 October 1986) was a Chinese Communist revolutionary leader and politician, one of the Ten Marshals of the People's Republic of China. He was the top military leader in the 1976 coup that overthrew the Gang ...
arrived in
Guangzhou
Guangzhou, Chinese postal romanization, previously romanized as Canton or Kwangchow, is the Capital city, capital and largest city of Guangdong Provinces of China, province in South China, southern China. Located on the Pearl River about nor ...
, surrounded and disarmed all
speculators, and arrested more than ten
journalist
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Roles
Journalists can work in broadcast, print, advertis ...
s for
re-education. The premises and equipment of the
Kuomintang
The Kuomintang (KMT) is a major political party in the Republic of China (Taiwan). It was the one party state, sole ruling party of the country Republic of China (1912-1949), during its rule from 1927 to 1949 in Mainland China until Retreat ...
's ''
Central Daily'' were immediately seized and taken over. The paper was changed to ''Nanfang Daily'', first published on 23 October 1949.
The newspaper is eponymous to the more lively and commercial ''
Southern Metropolis Daily
''Southern Metropolis Daily'' (SMD) is a for-profit tabloid newspaper located in Guangzhou city, China,Wang, Xiaotong. 2012. "The Comparison Between Newspapers In Hong Kong And Mainland And Its Enlightenment – A Case Study On Apple Daily And ...
'' and part of the giant
Nanfang Daily Newspaper Group. In March 2018, ''Nanfang Daily'' won the Third in China.
An article from
Brown University
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pointed out that ''Nanfang Daily'' has superior reporting and a somewhat higher level of
frankness than many mainstream press outlets in China.
See also
* ''
Hua Shang Daily
''Hua Shang Daily'' (), also known as ''China Commercial Daily'', was a patriotic newspaper for united front led by Liao Chengzhi and Fan Changjiang and published in Hong Kong since 8 April 1941. Due to the outbreak of the Pacific War, it was sto ...
'' – predecessor of ''Southern Daily''
References
External links
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{{Southern Newspaper Media Group
1949 establishments in China
Chinese-language newspapers (Simplified Chinese)
Chinese Communist Party newspapers
Daily newspapers published in China
Newspapers established in 1949