China Youth Daily
 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 | www |
The China Youth Daily (Chinese: 中国青年报) has been the newspaper of the Communist Youth League of China since 1951. It has occasionally published articles critical of the Chinese government.[1]
Its present circulation is estimated to be roughly 800,000 in 40 countries and regions.[2][3]
Background[edit]
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).
The Pan Xiao debate (1980) refers to a published letter sent by a young female reader titled Why is the life path getting narrower and narrower which generated 60 thousand response letters in 7 months. It provoked discussion about the meaning of life in the aftermath of the Cultural Revolution.[4][5]
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,[6] 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."[7] 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.[8]
Readership[edit]
American journalist Philip Pan has considered China Youth Daily to be one of the best newspapers in China.[1] It had a circulation of 800,000 in 2006.[2] A market research report by China Statistical Bureau ranked CYD in third place on the reading rate among the national daily papers."[9][better source needed]
The Chinese version of China Youth Daily Online was established in 2000.[citation needed]
See also[edit]
References[edit]
- ^ a b Philip P. Pan (2006-02-19). "The click that broke a government's grip". NBC News. Retrieved 2024-05-18.
- ^ a b Jason Dean. "China's News Crackdown Hits Popular Weekly". The Wall Street Journal. Archived from the original on 2023-08-20.
- ^ "Brief Introduction of China Youth Daily". China Youth Daily. Archived from the original on 2009-06-03.
- ^ "Cui Weiping, "The 1980s Debate on Humanism"".
- ^ https://min.news/en/news/941bce32b2da2d799954677f8d70b597.html
- ^ 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.
- ^ [1] Archived 2011-07-16 at the Wayback Machine "Media summary- China,"