In March 1961, the Nanning Municipal Committee of the Communist Party of China decided to change the "Nanning Daily" into the "Nanning Evening News". Although the daily newspaper is changed to the evening newspaper, although it is a word-for-word change, the requirements for the newspaper are different. The style of the newspaper needs to undergo a major change, and each page must have the characteristics of both "Nanning" and "Evening News." As for the supplement of the Evening News, first of all, it is the window for the style of the Evening News. The editorial board regards the supplement as the focus of improving the quality and changing the style of the Evening News. It is required to create a comprehensive supplement that focuses on literature and art, and is ideological, informative, and interesting, so that it can become the spiritual food for people from all walks of life after dinner, so that readers can be enlightened in the enjoyment of literature and art, the enjoyment of beauty, and conversation. Cultivate people's noble spiritual sentiments and pursuit of lofty ideals. The title of the literary supplement of "Nanning Daily" is "Yongjiang" and has been changed to the Evening News. The "Nanning Evening News" has conducted careful research and widely solicited readers' opinions. According to the fact that the road trees in Nanning were almost the same color as the Phoenix tree every summer. When the flowers bloom, the streets and roads in the city are ablaze, which is very beautiful and spectacular. For this reason, Nanning was once known as the "Phoenix City". "Phoenix" is also the legendary king of birds, symbolizing auspiciousness, so "Phoenix" was chosen as the title of the supplement. A lot of effort was put into the design of the masthead. Several famous calligraphers and seal carvers from Guangxi and Nanning engraved the word "Phoenix" on it. Mr. Yang Yuyun, a calligrapher and seal engraver, inscribed and carved several "Phoenix" mastheads for rotation. These carefully designed mastheads are beautiful and artistic. The layout editor Li Binghui is versatile. His carefully arranged layout is rich in pictures and texts, and the content is rich and colorful.
On July 2, 1962, the first issue of "Phoenix" met readers. Comrade Qin Zuyin, who was the deputy editor-in-chief of Nanning Evening News and in charge of the literary supplement at the time, wrote a speech for the launch of the "Phoenix" supplement entitled "Phoenix Flowers Bloom into the Garden" in the name of "the old owner of Yongjiang".
In March 1963, Mr. Guo Moruo, Vice Chairman of the Standing Committee of the National People's Congress and China's great writer, and his wife Yu Liqun came to Guangxi. Editor Lan Zhirong boldly passed the poet Hai Yan, a democrat, and the Guangxi Transportation Department The elder Lu Jiyi asked Mr. Guo to write poems for the supplement of the Evening News. Later, two poems by Guo Moruo "Visiting Xing'an Lingqu" were published in the "Phoenix" supplement of the Evening News, which greatly improved the reputation of the Evening News. Mr. Ma Wanli, a senior painter in the country, painted a peony flower on the spot. This peony flower is lifelike and graceful, adding a lot of color to the "Nanning Evening News". The famous Guangxi Zhuang writer Lu Lu's novel "Waterfall" and the painter Deng Erlong's comic strip "Liu Sanjie" were serialized in the "Phoenix" supplement, which greatly increased the popularity of the "Phoenix" supplement of "Nanning Evening News", attracted people from all walks of life, and provided a broad range of readers in Nanning. Welcomed.
After the "Nanning Daily" was transformed into an evening newspaper, the newspaper spent a lot of time on contacting professional teams, but it still did not relax contact and training with the original writers. This team of more than a hundred authors includes cadres, workers, primary and secondary school teachers and students, as well as cultural figures in society, scattered throughout Nanning City. The high enthusiasm of these authors for submitting articles has made a huge contribution to the development of the supplement.