Youth Daily should not be confused with China Youth Daily.
| Youth Daily | |
| Type: | Daily |
| Format: | Broadsheet |
| Owners: | Shanghai Committee of the China Youth League |
| Publisher: | Youth Daily Press |
| Foundation: | June 10, 1949 |
| Political: | Chinese Communist Party |
| Language: | Chinese |
| Headquarters: | Jing'an District, Shanghai, China |
The Youth Daily is a daily newspaper published in Shanghai, and the official newspaper of the Communist Youth League of China's Shanghai Committee. It is the first newspaper aimed to youth in P.R. China, and its establishment was approved by Deng Xiaoping.[1]
It was affiliated with the Jiefang Daily from September 16, 1949, to February 14, 1952. It was forced to stop publishing in the Cultural Revolution in December 1966, and was restarted on June 10, 1979.[2] On January 1, 1995, it became a daily.
Nowadays, Life Weekly (1985), Touch Youth and Students' Post are three main sub-publications of Youth Daily.