China Youth Daily
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] BackgroundThe 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] ReadershipIn 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] See alsoReferences
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