[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 1949.

[7] In March 2018, Nanfang Daily won the Third National Top 100 Newspapers [zh] in China.

[8][9][10] 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.