Southern Metropolitan Daily (南方都市報)

Headquartered in Guangzhou, the Southern Media Group's Southern Metropolis Daily has built a reputation for sharp investigative journalism and provocative commentary. The paper focuses primarily on Guangzhou and Shenzhen, but it is also distributed in Hong Kong, Macao and elsewhere throughout the Pearl River Delta region, with a circulation of 1.40 million. It also publishes an electronic version of the paper on its website.