China Youth Daily
The China Youth Daily (Chinese: 中国青年报) is the newspaper of the Communist Youth League of China since 1951 with editorial and financial independence in the People's Republic of China.[1][2]
 Front page of the Daily on Sep 15, 1956 | |
| Type | Daily newspaper |
|---|---|
| Format | Broadsheet |
| Owner(s) | Communist Youth League of China |
| Founded | 1951 |
| Political alignment | Chinese Communist Party |
| Language | Chinese |
| Headquarters | Beijing, China |
| Website | cyol.com (China Youth Online) |
In the 1980s, it was regarded as the best newspaper in mainland China with a circulation of 5 million a day. Its present circulation is estimated to be nearly one million in 40 countries and regions.[1]
Background
The China Youth Daily was established in 1951, six years before the Chinese Socialist Youth League decided to change its name to the Communist Youth League of China (CYL).
Freezing Point (冰点 pinyin: Bing diǎn), a four-page weekly supplement of China Youth Daily was temporarily shut down by the Chinese government in early 2006,[3] due to an anti-censorship letter posted by columnist Li Datong. According to The Washington Post, government censors accused the section of "'viciously attacking the socialist system' and condemned a recent article in it that criticized the history textbooks used in Chinese middle schools."[4] Pressure from retired high-level party officials and senior scholars forced the government to allow publication again, but without its former editor and top investigative reporter, according to The New York Times.[5]
Readership
According to the Asia Leadership Fellow Program, "China Youth Daily (CYD) is one of the most influential newspapers in contemporary China with a circulation of 800,000 (readership, which is much more, is not officially recorded). A market research report by China Statistical Bureau ranks CYD in third place on the reading rate among the national daily papers."[6]
The Chinese version of China Youth Daily Online was established in 2000.
References
- "Brief Introduction of China Youth Daily". China Youth Daily. Archived from the original on 2009-06-03.
- "中国青年报--中青在线". news.cyol.com. Retrieved 2022-05-11.
- Geremie R. Barme and Jeremy Goldkorn (2013). China Story Yearbook 2013. Canberra, Australia: Australian National University College of Asia and the Pacific. p. 459. ISBN 978-0-9873655-3-8. Archived from the original on 2020-05-13. Retrieved 2020-05-23.
- "Leading Publication Shut Down In China". The Washington Post. Archived from the original on 2016-12-28. Retrieved 2017-09-20.
- Yardley, Jim (16 February 2006). "Chinese Journal Closed by Censors Is to Reopen". The New York Times. Archived from the original on 2009-04-16. Retrieved 2017-02-21.
- Archived 2011-07-16 at the Wayback Machine "Media summary- China,"