Type Daily newspaper Editor-in-chief Yu Haibo (余海波) Headquarters Beijing | Format Broadsheet Language Chinese (simplified) | |
Founded March 21, 1949 (1949-03-21) | ||
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.
Contents
Beijing Youth Daily has halted production three times in its history. It has been published 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.