Background
The China Youth Daily was established in 1951, six years before the Chinese Socialist Youth League decided to change its name to Communist Youth League of China (CYL).
As the mission of CYL at the present stage is to unite and lead the young people in the country, hoping to transfuse new blood into the CPC and recruit about young personnel for the political party. China Youth Daily also tries to bring news, ideas and information into the nationwide circulation, following the CYL principles. Thus, China Youth Daily has in fact given advantages to the CPC, enabling them to project their voice to a wider public in China. In another perspective, the content of the paper is to some extent regulated by the CPC.
Although China youth Daily is run by the CYL, it is also the first profit-generating paper in China. The profit enables the paper to support itself, and the paper welcomes individuals as well as companies to advertise in the paper.
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, 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." 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.
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