| Nanfang Daily | |
| Type: | Daily newspaper |
| Format: | Print, online |
| Owners: | Guangdong provincial committee of the Chinese Communist Party |
| Language: | Chinese |
The Nanfang Daily, 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 23 October 1949.[4]
Eight days prior, 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 23 October.[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 in China.[8]