About Zhongshan Net

Zhongshan Net

Zhongshan Net, published at zsnews.cn with an English-language edition at en.zsnews.cn, is the digital news portal of the Zhongshan Daily Media Group in Zhongshan, Guangdong. It publishes Zhongshan municipal news and the group's newspaper editions online, and its English edition, styled "Zhongshan, China," serves as the city's English-language window for international readers. Zhongshan is the Pearl River Delta city named for Sun Yat-sen, who was born in Cuiheng Village there, and the portal's coverage reflects the city's identity: manufacturing and foreign trade, Greater Bay Area integration, Lingnan culture and the heritage of one of modern China's founding figures. As the online gateway of the municipal party newspaper group, Zhongshan Net is the authoritative first draft of the city's daily record.

The Zhongshan Daily Media Group

Zhongshan Net is the digital arm of Zhongshan's mainstream newspaper organisation. English-edition reporting on the site is credited to Zhongshan Daily photographers and journalists, and the group's role in city life is visible in its own coverage: the Zhongshan Foreign Trade Situation Analysis and Policy Sharing Meeting, for example, was sponsored by the Zhongshan Bureau of Commerce, the Zhongshan Federation of Industry and Commerce and the Zhongshan Daily Newspaper Group, and organised by Zhongshan Media Group. That sponsoring role — a newspaper group co-hosting the city's foreign-trade policy forum, with a keynote from Li Gang, vice president of the China Association of International Trade — shows the institutional position from which zsnews.cn publishes: not an outside observer of Zhongshan's affairs but a participant in its official and commercial life, in the pattern of Chinese municipal party media.

The English edition: Zhongshan's window

The English edition at en.zsnews.cn organises the city's presentation to the world under sections including News, Business — with subsections for foreign trade and entrepreneurship and innovation — and Culture and Education. Its news pages carry the city's current agenda in English: in October 2026 its listings led with Zhongshan's foreign trade rising 16.1 percent in the first three quarters of the year and trade with more than 200 countries and regions, the world's first integrated wind-fishery facility harvesting again, renderings of the city's "Lighting King" project, and foreign journalists and online influencers touring the city, visiting Mingyang Group and Sunwen West Road to take the pulse of a city known for manufacturing. Earlier pages show the same editorial pattern across years: the Shenzhen-Zhongshan Bridge immersed tunnel's pipe sections being installed, 2,502 Zhongshan enterprises in the national technology SME library, the Shiqi River Bridge joining up, and deposit balances passing 733.2 billion yuan at the end of 2021. For foreign readers, investors and the city's large overseas-Chinese community, this is Zhongshan's official self-portrait, updated daily.

Covering a manufacturing city

Zhongshan's economy gives the portal its dominant subject. The city is a manufacturing base in the western Pearl River Delta, known nationally for lighting — Guzhen township styles itself China's lighting capital, reflected in the "Lighting King" project coverage — and home to companies such as Mingyang Smart Energy Group, whose wind-energy business the English edition follows closely. The portal's business coverage tracks the city's adjustment to new conditions: foreign-trade forums analysing how Zhongshan's business circle should use foreign-trade policies and avoid risks under the dual-circulation development pattern; youth entrepreneurship bases and incubation services praised by visiting Greater Bay Area media delegations; and firms such as Green Guard, which in 2024 set up a laboratory with Shougang Steel for garden-tool steel, carving a niche in global garden-tools markets. Read together, the coverage documents a mid-sized Chinese manufacturing city working to move up the value chain — the central economic story of the Pearl River Delta in this period.

Greater Bay Area integration

Zhongshan's recent history is inseparable from the Guangdong-Hong Kong-Macao Greater Bay Area, and the portal is one of the places that integration is narrated. The Shenzhen-Zhongshan Link — the cross-sea bridge and tunnel that cut the journey to Shenzhen to under an hour — runs through its pages from construction milestones, such as the E27 pipe section's installation bringing the immersed tunnel to 3,382.8 metres, to the "Exploring World-class Mega Project — ShenZhong Link" reporting by Zhongshan Daily that won first prize in the Lingnan Culture, Greater Bay Area topic of the third "My China Story" international short-video competition. That competition's award ceremony was held in Zhongshan in September of its year, drawing over 100,000 entries in more than ten languages and awarded works from 56 groups and individuals across 25 countries and regions — an event the English edition covered as evidence of Zhongshan's role as a liaison for Chinese-foreign communication.

Sun Yat-sen's hometown

No Chinese city carries a namesake like Zhongshan's. The city is named for Sun Yat-sen — Sun Zhongshan — born in Cuiheng Village in 1866, and the English edition's culture coverage returns continually to that inheritance. It reported the Museum of Dr Sun Yat-sen after its renovation and reopening on 1 May 2025: over fourteen million visitors welcomed in total, including over four million in 2024, more than 1,170 educational events and around 140,000 overseas visitors; a "Model Organization for Ethnic Unity and Progress in Guangdong Province" honour in October 2025; and an AI-powered digital presentation making the revolutionary's history tangible. With 2025 marking the centenary of Sun's passing and 2026 the 160th anniversary of his birth, the city launched the "Exploring Zhongshan" cultural and tourism promotion under that anniversary banner. The portal also notes the demographic depth behind the heritage: Zhongshan is a home to over one million overseas Chinese and compatriots from Hong Kong, Macao and Taiwan, one of the birthplaces of Lingnan culture, and was named in 2020 one of China's top five prefecture-level cities for overseas influence — an audience for whom zsnews.cn, in Chinese and English, is a hometown paper.

Culture, heritage and city life

Beyond trade and anniversaries, the English edition covers the texture of the city: South District's more than 2,000 overseas-Chinese houses blending Chinese and western styles, being renovated since 2016 into art museums, design showrooms and planned homestay and cultural-tourism projects; Nantou's Charitable Lantern Party, where university youth teams build bilingual bridges for Lingnan intangible heritage; the GBA's first "potato rice" production line beginning trial production; a Chinese tree fern discovered in Zhongshan for the first time; and embodied robots being trained at Zhongshan Technician College. This mixture — heritage conservation, folk culture, ecology and vocational technology — is characteristic of Chinese municipal portals, whose remit is the whole city, and it gives overseas readers a fuller Zhongshan than business headlines alone would supply.

Services and the digital newspaper

Like its peer municipal portals in this directory, Zhongshan Net republishes the Zhongshan Daily group's newspaper editions online and provides the city's residents with a single official gateway for municipal news and information. The Chinese-language site at zsnews.cn is the primary service for local readers; the English edition is a curated selection and translation operation rather than a mirror, choosing the stories — trade figures, mega-projects, museum renovations, foreign visits — that compose the city's external image. The group's convergence across newspaper, portal and English window reflects the standard architecture of Chinese municipal mainstream media after media convergence reforms: one newsroom and brand, several windows, each aimed at a defined audience.

Position among Guangdong municipal media

Guangdong's municipal portals form a family in this directory — Dongguan's and Zhongshan's among them — each the online gateway of a Pearl River Delta manufacturing city, each negotiating the same themes of industrial upgrading and Greater Bay Area integration. Zhongshan Net's distinguishing asset is its namesake: no sibling portal can draw on a founding father of modern China as its city's brand, and the English edition exploits that asset systematically, from the Sun Yat-sen museum to the "My China Story" ceremony. Its second distinction is the overseas-Chinese audience written into the city's identity, which gives its English publishing a natural readership beyond officialdom. Among municipal news websites, Zhongshan Net is therefore best understood as a city-brand instrument as much as a news service — the official channel through which a famous hometown explains itself to its diaspora and to the world.

How to read Zhongshan Net

Researchers should read Zhongshan Net as the city's authorised voice. Its figures — foreign trade up 16.1 percent in three quarters, deposits of 733.2 billion yuan, 2,502 technology SMEs — are the municipality's official numbers, valuable precisely as the record of what the city reports about itself. Its event coverage documents the ceremonial and policy life of a Chinese prefecture-level city: trade forums co-sponsored by its own newspaper group, media summits touring its industrial parks, award ceremonies staged in its hotels. Its heritage coverage shows how a revolutionary inheritance is maintained as living city branding. What it does not provide is adversarial scrutiny of the municipal authorities — that is not the function of a party newspaper group's portal in the Chinese system — and readers seeking independent perspectives must look elsewhere. Within its function, it is comprehensive, current and, for Zhongshan, definitive.

Significance

Zhongshan Net's significance is the completeness of its role: newspaper-group portal, digital edition carrier, English-language city window and diaspora hometown paper in one. Published by the group that co-sponsors the city's trade forums and whose photographers illustrate its museum reopenings, it records Zhongshan's passage through Greater Bay Area integration — the ShenZhong Link's construction, the trade growth, the manufacturing upgrade — while curating the Sun Yat-sen inheritance that makes the city famous far beyond Guangdong. For the more than one million overseas Chinese with Zhongshan roots, and for the foreign businesses trading with more than 200 countries and regions from its factories, zsnews.cn is where the city speaks.