Nanfang Daily

History

The paper was established in Guangzhou on 23 October 1949.

Eight days prior, 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'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 and part of the giant Nanfang Daily Newspaper Group. In March 2018, Nanfang Daily won the Third 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 in China.

In 2025, the Nanfang Media Group established four platforms – IP Guangdong, INFO Guangdong, LIVE Guangdong, and GO Guangdong – to attract content creators and foreign influencers to better project soft power.

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