Nanfang Daily
TypeDaily newspaper
FormatPrint, online
Owner(s)Guangdong provincial committee of the Chinese Communist Party
FoundedOctober 23, 1949; 74 years ago (1949-10-23)
LanguageChinese
Websiteepaper.southcn.com Edit this at Wikidata
Nanfang Daily
Simplified Chinese南方日报
Traditional Chinese南方日報
Literal meaningSouthern Daily

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 October 23, 1949.[4]

On October 15, 1949, 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 October 23.[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 of the People's Republic of China.[8]

See also

References

  1. ^ Jack Linchuan Qiu (1 December 2017). Media and Society in Networked China. Brill Publishers. pp. 62–. ISBN 978-90-04-35514-9.
  2. ^ Audrey Donnithorne (18 October 2013). China's Economic System. Routledge. pp. 109–. ISBN 978-1-136-56993-7.
  3. ^ Chinese Newspaper Navigator: Top 100 Newspaper Silhouettes. China Financial & Economic Publishing House. 1 October 2017. pp. 154–. ISBN 978-7-5095-7438-6.
  4. ^ First issue of Chinese newspaper. People's Daily Press. 2001. pp. 116–. ISBN 978-7-80153-387-6.
  5. ^ "Communist Party of China's Press Policy and Historical Effects before and after 1949" (PDF). Twenty-First Century. June 30, 2008.
  6. ^ "Chen Xiaoping: The Kuomintang regime moved the Capital to Guangzhou in 1949". Thepaper.cn. 2019-12-16.
  7. ^ Wang Jianping (6 February 2018). China Culture Enterprise Report 2015. Tsinghua University Press. pp. 50–. ISBN 978-7-302-39764-9.
  8. ^ "Chinese News & Media". Brown University. Retrieved 30 July 2020.

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