We’ve seen many awards handed to Guangdong province: it has the most livable city in China and cities with the best air in China, for instance. It even has some questionable awards, like having the most crowded place in the world.

However, Guangdong has now been given the dubious honor of being called the province with the worst public image in China according to a blue book report published by the Chinese Academy of Social Sciences.

The report compiled more than 2,000 media reports concerning public safety, social order, the environment, public services and the performance of government officials and ranked them in terms of public image, province by province.

Tang Jun, editor-in-chief of the report and director of the Crisis Management Center at Renmin University, told Xinhua that he believes the report is a warning of the risks of the country’s rapid transformation.

We can only surmise that the culmination of all these varied awards can means that it is nice to live in Guangdong, but you shouldn’t ruin it by thinking.

Related stories that may somehow pertain to Guangdong’s public image:

• Hundreds of “Naked Officials” Punished in Guangdong
• 1,000 “Naked Officials” Netted In Guangdong Crackdown
• Guangdong Official Sacked Over Nude Photos Published by Mistress
• 30,000 Workers Strike in Dongguan, Robots Planned as Replacements
• Strikes On The Rise as Workers Set To Be Replaced By Robots
• Scenery is Nice But Salaries are Low in the Pearl River Delta
• One Dead in Maoming Protest, Contradicting Government Denials
• Fires and Overturned Police Cars in Guangzhou After Mass Incident
• Picture This: Guangdong River Turns Bright Red
• Shenzhen Residents Protest “Smelliest Landfill in History” By Giving It an Award
• Report: Guangzhou Has Reached Critical Mass, Can’t Take Any More People
• Relax: All Those Sparrows In Jiangmen Aren’t Sick From Avian Flu
• New Avian Flu Cases Bring Total to 3 Since Live Poultry Ban
• Eyewitness Accounts Depict Horrors of Guangzhou Railway Station Attack
• Knife Attack Rumor Launches Stampede on Guangzhou Metro

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