About Baise News Net

Baise News Net

Baise News Net is the official online news portal serving Baise, a prefecture-level city in western Guangxi Zhuang Autonomous Region, China. Published in Chinese, it carries local government, economy, society, livelihood and culture news for the Baise area and its subordinate counties and districts, and it is the city's dedicated local news website, produced by Baise's converged media centre, the merged municipal newspaper and broadcasting group. It is distinct from the print Baise Daily newspaper, whose reporting it carries alongside online-first local coverage and local government service information. The city it serves stands on the You River, in the border mountains where Guangxi meets Yunnan and Guizhou. Baise is remembered across China as the city of the 1929 Baise Uprising, and it lives today as an aluminium and hydropower centre and one of the country's great mango-producing regions. A portal for Baise reports on revolutionary memorials and mango harvests, dams and karst sinkholes, in the same news week.

The portal and its place in Baise media

Baise News Net is Baise's web-native local news service. Its recorded remit covers government, economy, society, livelihood and culture news across the whole prefecture, published on a rolling basis as municipal announcements, project updates and community stories appear. Its position is distinct from that of the Baise Daily: the newspaper is the city's print title, while the News Net is the online portal through which readers follow the prefecture continuously, including the local government service information residents need for daily life. The portal is produced by the city's converged media centre, the merged municipal newspaper and broadcasting group, reflecting the nationwide restructuring that combined municipal print, radio and television newsrooms into single converged operations. Local news websites of this type operate under Cyberspace Administration of China internet news information service licensing, the national system governing which organisations may gather and publish news online.

A border prefecture on the You River

Baise occupies the west of Guangxi, on the You River — the Youjiang — where the prefecture borders Yunnan to the west and Guizhou to the north, and reaches toward the Vietnamese frontier in its southern counties. It is one of Guangxi's largest prefectures by area, a mountainous territory of river valleys, red-soil hills and karst country, administered from Youjiang District. Baise was a prefecture for most of its modern history and was promoted to prefecture-level city status in November 2002. The portal's coverage map is therefore wide and largely rural: county towns strung along the You River valley, upland villages of Zhuang, Yao and other ethnic communities, and border settlements far from the municipal seat. News from such a spread — harvests, roads, schools and river works — is reported by the portal as one Baise story.

The Baise Uprising of 1929

No event shapes the city's identity more than the uprising whose name it carries. The Baise Uprising, organised by the Chinese Communist Party in northwestern Guangxi, officially began on 11 December 1929 and lasted until late 1931. It established the Seventh Red Army and the You River Soviet over a number of counties in the You River valley, drawing support from the pre-existing movement of Zhuang peasants led by Wei Baqun, and focusing on land redistribution in the area it controlled. Zhang Yunyi was appointed overall commander of the Seventh Red Army, and the uprising is most famous today for the role of Deng Xiaoping, who was the Communist Party Central Committee's leading representative in Guangxi during it. After a costly attempt to capture Guangxi's major cities, the soviet was suppressed and surviving soldiers made their way to Jiangxi. The Baise Uprising Memorial Hall in Youjiang District anchors the city's commemorative landscape, and anniversaries, memorial events and red-tourism visits are recurring subjects of the portal's culture and society coverage.

Aluminium, hydropower and the river economy

The modern economy the portal covers rests on what the mountains and rivers provide. Baise is an aluminium centre, built on the bauxite resources of western Guangxi, and a hydropower centre, using the falls and gorges of its rivers. Official development accounts describe a city that reinvented itself from an agrarian, relatively poor frontier prefecture into an emerging industrial base on the strength of aluminium, coal, water and fertile land. For the portal, that means a standing brief on mines and smelters, dams and power stations, and the roads and railways built to carry the west's produce and metal out through the You River valley toward the rest of Guangxi. Industrial safety, energy projects and the employment they bring are core economy news for its readers.

The mango capital of the You River valley

Baise's other signature industry grows on its red hillsides. Thanks to a favourable microclimate and selenium-rich red soils along the Youjiang River, Baise has emerged as one of China's leading mango-producing regions. Reporting by Xinhua, carried by People's Daily Online, records that mango planting expanded from about 10,000 mu in 1985, when mangoes were first promoted as a pillar industry, to 1.22 million mu by the end of 2025, with annual output of 1.26 million tonnes in 2025, benefiting more than 200,000 rural households. The Guiqi mango, a green-skinned variety prized for its flavour but short-lived once picked, became a nationally recognised brand after local traders pioneered online sales of perishable fruit from 2012. Mango season — picking, packing lines employing thousands of seasonal workers, e-commerce warehouses — is one of the biggest recurring stories on the portal, joining its agriculture, livelihood and economy pages together. Baise is also a major producer of tea and tobacco within Guangxi, and its counties are known for products such as Xilin tangerines.

Karst, tiankeng and mountain tourism

The prefecture's landscape gives its tourism coverage unusual material. Baise's karst country includes the great tiankeng — giant collapsed dolines or sinkholes — of Leye County, where the Dashiwei Tiankeng is among some two dozen such formations. Leye has also been noted as a forefront area for organic farming in China. Rivers, reservoirs and mountain scenery across the prefecture support a growing visitor economy built around the uprising memorials, the mango harvest and the karst geology together. For a portal whose prefecture was long relatively poor and remote, tourism reporting is development reporting: each new road, scenic area and festival is covered as part of the prefecture's effort to turn landscape and history into livelihoods.

Ethnic communities and rural revitalisation

Baise is a Zhuang-majority region with Yao, Yi, Miao and other ethnic communities among its population, and its society coverage reflects that diversity of languages, festivals and village life. As a former revolutionary base area that remained relatively underdeveloped, the prefecture was a focus of poverty-alleviation work: official accounts describe education placed at the top of the local agenda, with funds raised to build and improve hundreds of primary and middle schools. Rural revitalisation — mango income, e-commerce, roads, schools and village services — remains the dominant society story the portal tells, county by county. It is the everyday counterpart to the prefecture's famous history: the same valleys that formed the You River Soviet are now reported for their harvests and their graduates.

Government and public-service information

Alongside news, Baise News Net carries local government service information: the notices, policy explanations and practical guidance through which residents deal with the municipal state. That function is central to portals of this type in China. The same site that reports a mango record or an uprising anniversary also publishes the announcements residents must act on. In a prefecture as large and mountainous as Baise, where county towns lie many hours from the municipal seat, a single authoritative online record binds the territory together, and gives readers outside Baise — in Nanning, elsewhere in China, and among those who left the prefecture to work — a working source on what the city is doing.

Licensing and the converged-media system

Baise News Net operates inside the regulatory and organisational framework that governs Chinese local media. Internet news information services are licensed by the Cyberspace Administration of China, and the portal's production by the city's converged media centre reflects the national restructuring in which municipal newspaper and broadcasting groups were merged so that print reporting, broadcast material and online publishing are planned and produced together. Within that system, the Baise Daily remains the print newspaper of record, while the News Net publishes continuously, carries the newspaper's reporting, and adds rolling local coverage and service information that a printed daily cannot provide. Its recorded identity — the city's dedicated local news website — is exactly that division of labour.

Why Baise News Net matters

For readers inside the prefecture, Baise News Net is the municipal chronicle: the place where government, economy, society, livelihood and culture news for the whole Baise area appears as a single continuous record. For readers outside it, it is the working source on a city known across China for one December day in 1929 and now known increasingly for aluminium, hydropower and mangoes — on how a remote border prefecture of river valleys and red hills is developing. History and harvest, reported side by side: that combination defines Baise News Net and its audience.