大公報
Xiao entered the field of journalism in April 1935. He first worked for Tianjin's "Ta Kung Pao", where he published his early writings including his first novel, as an editor for "Literary Arts" (). In 1936, he moved to Shanghai to prepare for the publication of Shanghai's Takung Pao. Then in 1938, when full-scale war against the Japanese broke out in China, Xiao was offered a job by the "Ta Kung Pao" in Hong Kong to work as an editor and journalist.