Type | Daily newspaper |
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Format | Print, online |
Owner(s) | Guangdong provincial committee of the Chinese Communist Party |
Founded | October 23, 1949 |
Language | Chinese |
Website |
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Nanfang Daily | |||||||||||||
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Simplified Chinese | 南方日报 | ||||||||||||
Traditional Chinese | 南方日報 | ||||||||||||
Literal meaning | Southern Daily | ||||||||||||
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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]
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]