Recently, Xinhua released the most influential list of Xinhua in 2020. Chenzhou Daily was selected as the most influential list (media list) of Xinhua in 2020. Chenzhou Daily, Guangming Daily, New Hunan, Hunan Satellite TV and other 104 media were selected as the list. 

Chenzhou Daily is the organ newspaper of Chenzhou Municipal Party committee. Its predecessor, Chenzhou People's Daily, was founded in April 1950 and renamed Chenzhou Daily in November 1959. After several times of suspension and resumption, Chenzhou Daily resumed its publication again on July 1, 1989 and officially renamed Chenzhou Daily on January 1, 1994.

In the past 30 years since its resumption, Chenzhou Daily has experienced a great change from weekly to daily, from black and white to color, from tabloid to big, from lead and fire, light and electricity to number and Internet. Chenzhou Daily has become the new mainstream media group with 16 publishing platforms, including Chenzhou Daily, Today's Chenzhou APP, Chenzhou News Network, WeChat's official account of Chenzhou, Weibo, Digital Newspaper, Headline, Tik Tok, Wesee and Kuaishou, with the coming of 5G era.

Since the beginning of 2019, the Chenzhou Daily has thoroughly implemented General Secretary Xi Jinping's spirit of important instructions on media convergence and development, has actively explored the path of practical integration, boldly broke the ice in ideas, institutions and incentive mechanisms, removed the obstacles to institutional mechanisms, and accelerated the transformation of the integration through the three concepts of "mobile excellence, media integration and new business development".

 In June 2019, Chenzhou Daily cooperated with Founder Group of Peking University and Chenzhou Branch of China Mobile to integrate and upgrade the acquisition and editing systems of Today's Chenzhou and Chenzhou Daily, creating a first-class control system of media command center from a high starting point.

During the Two Sessions of Chenzhou City in 2020, Chenzhou Daily opened two video columns on the new media platform Chenzhou App. During the epidemic period, Chenzhou App opened 1458 mobile online classes for primary and secondary school students in the city free of charge, with more than 300000 users by the end of June 2020. Chenzhou Daily and Chenzhou National Fitness Service Center jointly held the "home fitness competition", inviting Zhang Wangli and Hou Zhihui, two Chenzhou world champions, to demonstrate, attracting more than 400 contestants and more than 200000 netizens. The event was also promoted by Xinhua News Agency, CCTV and other central media.

While strengthening its main business, Chenzhou Daily, guided by the Internet thinking, has constantly created new businesses and bravely stepped forward the steps of cross-border development: purchasing 5G Mobile Live Broadcasting vehicles, building 5G live broadcasting interview rooms and electronic newspaper reading columns; conducting live broadcasting, opening e-mall and holding short video competitions; and opening Chenzhou channel with national emergency channel 905 traffic broadcasting to promote Chenzhou governance scientific and technological support for the modernization of management system and emergency command.

 Faced with the new situation and new mission, Chenzhou Daily will continue to take Xi Jinping's new socialist ideology with Chinese characteristics as the guidance, enhance the "Four Consciousnesses", strengthen the "Four Self-confidence", and make "Two Maintenance", and bravely shoulder the mission, gathering the hearts of the people, cultivating new people, developing culture and displaying image of China, so as to provide strong spiritual strength and public opinion support for the realization of Chenzhou's high quality development.