The ''China Youth Daily'' () is the newspaper of the

Communist Youth League of China The Communist Youth League of China (CYLC), also known as the Young Communist League of China or simply the Communist Youth League (CYL), is a youth movement of the People's Republic of China for youth between the ages of 14 and 28, run by the ...

since 1951 with editorial and financial independence in the

People's Republic of China China, officially the People's Republic of China (PRC), is a country in East Asia. It is the world's most populous country, with a population exceeding 1.4 billion, slightly ahead of India. China spans the equivalent of five time zones and ...

. 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.

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). ''

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'' (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, due to an anti-censorship letter posted by columnist

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. 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." 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''.

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

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report by China Statistical Bureau ranks CYD in third place on the reading rate among the national daily papers."
"Media summary- China," The Chinese language, Chinese version of ''China Youth Daily Online'' was established in 2000.

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* {{Official website, http://www.cyol.com/ Newspapers published in Beijing Chinese-language newspapers (Simplified Chinese) Publications established in 1951 1951 establishments in China Communist Youth League of China Chinese Communist Party newspapers Daily newspapers published in China

Background

Readership

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