The ''Nanfang Daily'' (), also known as ''Southern Daily'' and ''Nanfang Ribao'', is the official newspaper of the Guangdong provincial committee of the Chinese Communist Party. The paper was established in Guangzhou on October 23, 1949. On October 15, 1949, Ye Jianying arrived in Guangzhou, surrounded and disarmed all speculators, and arrested more than ten journalists for re-education. The premises and equipment of the

Kuomintang The Kuomintang (KMT), also referred to as the Guomindang (GMD), the Nationalist Party of China (NPC) or the Chinese Nationalist Party (CNP), is a major political party in the Republic of China, initially on the Chinese mainland and in Tai ...

's ''

Central Daily The ''Central Daily News'' was the official newspaper of the Kuomintang and is one of the world's oldest Chinese-language newspapers, having been in circulation since 1928. The Kuomintang made the decision to temporarily cease publication of t ...

'' 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 ''

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 South ...

'' 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 Brown University is a private research university in Providence, Rhode Island. Brown is the seventh-oldest institution of higher education in the United States, founded in 1764 as the College in the English Colony of Rhode Island and Provide ...

pointed out that ''Nanfang Daily'' has superior reporting and a somewhat higher level of

frankness Honesty or truthfulness is a facet of moral character that connotes positive and virtuous attributes such as integrity, truthfulness, straightforwardness, including straightforwardness of conduct, along with the absence of lying, cheating, theft, ...

than many mainstream press outlets of the People's Republic of China.

References

External links

* 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

See also

References

External links