Beijing Youth Daily

Beijing Youth Daily
北京青年报

Cover of Beijing Youth Daily on 16 August 2013
Type Daily newspaper
Format Broadsheet
Editor-in-chief Yu Haibo (余海波)
Founded March 21, 1949 (1949-03-21)
Language Chinese (simplified)
Headquarters Beijing
Circulation 650,000 (2000)
Website bjyouth.ynet.com

The Beijing Youth Daily (Chinese: 北京青年报; pinyin: běijìng qīngnián bào) is the official newspaper of the Communist Youth League committee in Beijing. It was established in March 1949, and is now published by the Beijing Youth Daily Publishing Company. It is Beijing's most widely circulated metropolitan newspaper.

Beijing Youth Daily has halted production three times in its history. It has been published continuously since 1981.

It is assigned the Chinese Issue Number (Chinese: 统一刊号; pinyin: tǒngyī kānhào) CN11-0103.


Publication

The daily typically publishes about 50 broadsheet pages per day. In addition to its flagship Beijing Youth Daily, the media group publishes nine other newspapers:

As well as four magazines:


History

On December 22, 2004, Beijing Media Corporation, Ltd, under Beijing Youth Daily Holdings, listed its H-shares in Hong Kong, becoming the first Chinese mainland media group to be publicly traded overseas.


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