Guangde Forum is a folk forum initiated and founded by Guangde folk forces, which was established at the end of 2003. It mainly reflects people's livelihood and information exchange, including photography, life and making friends. Committed to becoming a large-scale interactive platform for local netizens in Guangde to provide integrated services of life information, consumption, shopping and interpersonal communication. After more than 9 years of development, it has become the most popular comprehensive portal website in Guangde. The development purpose of Guangde Forum has always been to make suggestions for the development of Guangde and enrich the online life of Guangde people. Its slogan is "Welcome Guangde people all over the world and unite the strength of our compatriots!" Guangde Forum has made great efforts to build a green grid forum and has been actively developing.

After years of development, Guangde Forum has more than 70,000 registered users as of August 20 12, making it one of the most influential websites in Guangde. The forum regularly holds various offline activities that interact with netizens, such as the annual large-scale bonfire party and various prize-winning appraisal activities. From the content point of view, Guangde Forum is a distribution center from sporadic local news and opinions to people's voices.

From the information structure, the forum presents a tree structure, with public events as the center, and participants participate in topic discussion in various ways. If the early Guangde Forum mainly provided and published all kinds of news information, paid attention to world events, made macro comments, and formed a news distribution center and an opinion distribution center, then in recent years, the topics of the forum have become more and more people's livelihood, closer to the trivial matters around netizens, and become a distribution center for people's voices.

From the user's point of view, the participants of Guangde Forum range from grassroots to elite to government leaders, including people from all walks of life. The government's attention to online forums and online public opinion has also invisibly enhanced the charm of the forum and amplified its social value.

In terms of interaction, with the increase in the number of netizens, the breadth of discussion topics and the great attention of local governments to online public opinion, sensitive issues such as hot spots and difficulties in various fields have emerged in the forum topics, and Guangde Forum has become an important place for local governments to understand and collect public opinion. The development trend of Guangde Forum will be localization and community. Many netizens of Guangde Forum actively participate in community public affairs. Guangde Forum is gradually increasing the ability and coordination level of internal communication, integrating online and offline life, making up for the shortcomings of traditional channels and establishing a brand-new online community life.

In the future development, Guangde Forum will further prosper the forum, develop network culture, provide various value-added services, such as group buying and other life-related content, put an end to vulgar, vulgar and kitsch content and a large number of repetitive and worthless junk information, improve the style and taste of the forum, strictly abide by Internet-related laws and regulations, and play its due role in the economic development of Guangde County.