The Southern Economy magazine focuses on researching hot and difficult issues in the reform and opening up, conveying policy, legal, and economic information, and exploring new economic theories. The submission requirements for magazines include that the manuscript should be scientific, forward-looking, logical, practical, instructive, and readable, with clear arguments, reliable evidence, accurate numbers, prominent focus, clear hierarchy, and concise text.

The magazine has multiple columns, including problem exploration, leadership economic decision-making forum, industry research, enterprise management, financial research, local economy, rural economy, and economics and law, covering various aspects of the economic field. The magazine mainly publishes academic achievements reflecting the development, operation, policy information, and theoretical research of the southern economy.