China Youth Daily

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.cyol.com

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]

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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).^{[citation needed]}

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.^[2]

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]

In 2006, 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.^[6]

List of newspapers in the People's Republic of China

[1]
Philip P. Pan (2006-02-19). "The click that broke a government's grip". NBC News. Archived from the original on 2024-05-18. Retrieved 2024-05-18.
[2]
"Cui Weiping, "The 1980s Debate on Humanism"". Archived from the original on 2023-11-13. Retrieved 2023-11-13.
[3]
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.
[4]
Pan, Philip P. (January 25, 2006). "Leading Publication Shut Down In China". The Washington Post. Archived from the original on 2016-12-28. Retrieved 2017-09-20.
[5]
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.
[6]
Dean, Jason (January 26, 2006). "China's News Crackdown Hits Popular Weekly". The Wall Street Journal. Archived from the original on 2024-05-18. Retrieved 2024-05-21.

Official website

[:1-1] [1]
Philip P. Pan (2006-02-19). "The click that broke a government's grip". NBC News. Archived from the original on 2024-05-18. Retrieved 2024-05-18.

[2] [2]
"Cui Weiping, "The 1980s Debate on Humanism"". Archived from the original on 2023-11-13. Retrieved 2023-11-13.

[3] [3]
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.

[4] [4]
Pan, Philip P. (January 25, 2006). "Leading Publication Shut Down In China". The Washington Post. Archived from the original on 2016-12-28. Retrieved 2017-09-20.

[5] [5]
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.

[:2-6] [6]
Dean, Jason (January 26, 2006). "China's News Crackdown Hits Popular Weekly". The Wall Street Journal. Archived from the original on 2024-05-18. Retrieved 2024-05-21.

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