抗日战争时期,在桂林出版的各类刊物中,最多的是各党派团体兴办的综合性政治读物。武汉等地沦陷后,桂林一跃而为全国的文化出版中心,团结抗战、救亡图存主题奠定了这一时期桂林新闻出版业的基调。1944年秋,日军直逼桂林,桂林实行大撤退,新闻出版界被迫停刊或迁徙,桂林作为战时文化中心的使命才告一段落。由于桂林是当时国民党桂系军阀统治中心,而其又与蒋介石存在深刻矛盾,故中共便对桂系领导人发起统战工作, During the period of the War of Resistance Against Japan, most of the publications published in Guilin were comprehensive political books set up by various party groups. After the fall of Wuhan and other places, Guilin jumped into the national cultural publishing center, and unite with the theme of resisting the war and saving the nation laid the keynote of Guilin’s news publishing industry during this period. In the autumn of 1944, the Japanese troops were almost equal to Guilin, Guilin was largely retreated, the press and press were forced to stop publication or relocate, and Guilin’s mission as a wartime cultural center came to an end. Since Guilin was the Kuomintang-controlled warlord center of the Kuomintang and there was a profound contradiction with Chiang Kai-shek, the CCP initiated the United Front work against the leaders of the Gui-series.