The ''Youth Daily'' () is a daily newspaper published in Shanghai, and the official newspaper of the

Communist Youth League of China The Communist Youth League of China (CYLC; also known as the Young Communist League of China or simply the Communist Youth League or CYL) is a people's organization of the People's Republic of China for youth between the ages of 14 and 28, r ...

's Shanghai Committee. It is the first newspaper aimed to youth in P.R. China, and its establishment was approved by

Deng Xiaoping Deng Xiaoping also Romanization of Chinese, romanised as Teng Hsiao-p'ing; born Xiansheng (). (22 August 190419 February 1997) was a Chinese statesman, revolutionary, and political theorist who served as the paramount leader of the People's R ...

. It was affiliated with the ''

Jiefang Daily ''Jiefang Daily'' ( zh, s=解放日报, p=Jiěfàng Rìbào), also translated as ''Liberation Daily'', is the official daily newspaper of the Shanghai Municipal Committee of the Chinese Communist Party. History ''Jiefang Daily'' was first publish ...

'' from September 16, 1949, to February 14, 1952. It was forced to stop publishing in the

Cultural Revolution The Cultural Revolution, formally known as the Great Proletarian Cultural Revolution, was a Social movement, sociopolitical movement in the China, People's Republic of China (PRC). It was launched by Mao Zedong in 1966 and lasted until his de ...

in December 1966, and was restarted on June 10, 1979. 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.

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* Newspapers published in Shanghai Chinese-language newspapers (Simplified Chinese) Newspapers established in 1949 1949 establishments in China Communist Youth League of China Chinese Communist Party newspapers {{China-newspaper-stub