About Liupanshui News Net

Liupanshui News Net

Liupanshui News Net is the official online news portal of Liupanshui, in Guizhou, China. Produced by the local converged media centre, it publishes government, economy, society, livelihood and culture news in Chinese for the city and its subordinate counties and districts, carrying the reporting of the local newspaper alongside online-first coverage, short-video news and government service information.

Serving Liupanshui and its region

Liupanshui News Net is the official online news portal serving the western Guizhou city of Liupanshui. It is produced by the local converged media centre - the merged municipal newspaper, radio and television operation for the area - and publishes local government, economy, society, livelihood and culture news in Chinese for residents of the city and its subordinate counties and districts. As the area's dedicated local news website, it is the digital front door of the local media group: the place where official announcements, breaking local stories and service information appear first, and where the reporting of the area's journalists is gathered in one continuously updated stream. For readers inside the area it functions as a daily civic bulletin; for former residents, workers, students and businesspeople following their home area from elsewhere in China, it is often the most direct way of keeping in touch with events at home.

The place it reports on

Liupanshui is a prefecture-level city in western Guizhou, set high in the Wumeng Mountains. Its name combines elements of its three original counties - Liuzhi, Panxian (now Panzhou) and Shuicheng - and its districts and counties still spread across separate mountain basins connected by tunnels and viaducts. The elevation keeps the climate mild: the city's average temperature is around 15 degrees Celsius across the year, and summer temperatures are notably cool for southern China. Coal seams run through the surrounding mountains, and it was coal, reached by rail through difficult terrain, that created the city. Geography here means altitude, and altitude shapes both Liupanshui's industry and its second career as a summer resort. A portal's coverage is defined by this territory: every county, district and township within it is part of the newsroom's beat, and stories are organised so that readers can follow both the whole of Liupanshui and their own locality within it.

History and heritage in its coverage

Liupanshui is a child of the Third Front era: in the 1960s the area was developed as a coal base for the industrial build-up of the interior, and miners and railway builders from across China turned scattered mountain counties into a new industrial city, formally organised around the coal industry that gave the place its reason to exist. The Sanxian - Third Front - heritage of factories, railways and mining communities remains a strong strand of local identity. In 2005 the Chinese Meteorological Society named Liupanshui the Cool City of China, a title that marked the beginning of the city's deliberate reinvention from coal base to climate-tourism destination, a transition still unfolding and frequently examined in local reporting. Heritage is not a decorative subject for a Chinese local portal; it is part of how a place explains itself. Anniversaries, excavations, restorations, museum exhibitions and the protection of historic sites are covered as civic news, and the historical record shapes features, photography and special reports throughout the year.

Economy and working life

Coal, power, steel and building materials built Liupanshui's economy and still employ much of its workforce, but the growth story local media now follow most closely is tourism built on climate. The city markets cool summers, a marathon and paragliding, and - unusually for the south - winter skiing: the Yushe Snow Mountain and Meihua Mountain resorts are among its low-latitude, high-altitude ski areas. Official figures reported more than 6.5 million overnight tourist arrivals in 2025, ranking the city second in Guizhou on that measure. Agriculture contributes specialities such as Panzhou ham and kiwifruit, while the conversion of mining areas and the upgrading of coal industry remain continuing economic themes. The portal reports this economy at street level as well as in statistics: market prices, business openings, employment information, major project construction and the policies of the Liupanshui authorities that affect firms and households. Economic coverage in a local outlet of this kind is read practically - by traders checking prices, farmers checking policy, and workers and employers following the industries on which the area depends.

Culture, food and community life

Autumn in Tuole, an ancient ginkgo village in Panzhou, is Liupanshui's most photographed season, when golden leaves carpet stone lanes around trees said to be more than a thousand years old. Around that image sits a wider culture: Yi and Miao festivals in the mountain counties, the Torch Festival celebrated alongside the summer marathon, Wumeng grassland scenery with its wind turbines, and the food of a mining city fed by migrants from many provinces. The portal's cultural coverage records a place negotiating two identities at once - the proud, gritty heritage of the coal frontier and a new self-image as China's cool summer capital. Cultural reporting of this kind does practical work as well as celebratory work: it publicises festivals and performances, records crafts and customs that are changing as the area modernises, and gives community events - school achievements, village celebrations, sporting fixtures - a public record. In a converged media centre, these stories are also the raw material for short videos and photo features that travel widely on social platforms.

What it publishes: the news mix

The core of Liupanshui News Net is daily local news. Government coverage carries the decisions, meetings and policy announcements of the Liupanshui authorities and the subordinate county and district governments, from development plans to public-service changes. Economy coverage follows the area's industries, agriculture, markets and major projects. Society and livelihood reporting - the category Chinese readers know as minsheng news - covers schools, hospitals, transport, housing, weather, prices and the everyday administrative matters that affect households directly. Culture and tourism coverage presents the area's heritage, festivals, food and scenery to readers at home and to potential visitors. Around these pillars sit announcements and practical information: recruitment notices, road and weather warnings, public-service guides and the official statements through which local government communicates with residents in emergencies as well as in routine administration.

Its place in the local converged media centre

Liupanshui News Net is the online arm of a converged, or integrated, media centre: the organisational form into which China's county and prefecture-level media have been consolidated, merging the local newspaper, radio and television newsrooms with websites, apps and social-media accounts into a single operation. The model is often summarised as one newsroom collecting material once and distributing it in many forms - a reporter covering a story in Liupanshui may supply text and photographs for the website, video for television and short platforms, and audio for radio from the same assignment. The portal is distinct from the area's print daily newspaper, whose reporting it carries, but it is not simply the newspaper online: it adds online-first local coverage, short-video news and local government service information that print cannot provide, and it publishes throughout the day rather than on a print deadline.

Digital, mobile and video reporting

Like its counterparts across China, Liupanshui News Net operates in a mobile-first media environment. Most readers encounter its stories on phones, through the portal itself, the media centre's app and its accounts on national platforms, where headlines, live blogs, photo sets and short videos compete for attention with every other source of information. Short-video news has become a standard part of the output, used for everything from festival scenes and new infrastructure to weather warnings and public-safety information. Live streaming is used for major local events, ceremonies and press conferences. This digital layer matters to the portal's civic role: in fast-moving situations - severe weather, traffic disruption, public emergencies - the website and its mobile channels are the fastest route by which the Liupanshui authorities and newsroom can reach the whole population of the area at once.

Licensing, standards and why it matters

Local news websites of this type operate under the internet news information service licensing system administered by the Cyberspace Administration of China, which governs which organisations may gather, edit and publish news online. That status gives Liupanshui News Net a formal position in the information life of Liupanshui: it is an authorised, accountable local news source, staffed by the area's professional journalists and answerable for what it publishes, in contrast to the anonymous and commercial content that circulates on social platforms. Its value is ultimately local and practical. National media cover Liupanshui only when events there become national stories; the portal covers it every day - the county meetings, the market prices, the school places, the roadworks, the festivals and the funerals of notable residents. In doing so it creates the continuous public record of a community's life, and for historians, businesses, officials and the area's own people, that record is the most complete account of Liupanshui as it changes from year to year.