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Beijing Youth Daily

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Beijing Youth Daily
北京青年报
Cover of Beijing Youth Daily on 16 August 2013
TypeDaily newspaper
FormatBroadsheet
PublisherBeijing Youth Daily Agency
Editor-in-chiefYu Haibo
FoundedMarch 21, 1949 (1949-03-21)
LanguageChinese (simplified)
HeadquartersBeijing
Circulation650,000 (2000)
OCLC number144518975
Websiteepaper.ynet.com
bjyouth.ynet.com

Beijing Youth Daily (Abbreviation: BYD,[1] simplified Chinese: 北京青年报; traditional Chinese: 北京青年報; pinyin: Běijīng qīngnián bào) is the official newspaper of the Beijing Municipal Committee of the Communist Youth League of China (中国共产主义青年团北京市委员会).[2]

Beijing Youth Daily was launched on 21 March 1949,[3] and is now published by the Beijing Youth Daily Agency (北京青年报社).[4] It is the most widely circulated metropolitan newspaper in Beijing.[5]

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

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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:

  • Legal Evening News (Chinese: 《法制晚报》; pinyin: fǎzhì wǎnbào)
  • First Financial Daily (Chinese: 《第一财经日报》; pinyin: dìyī cáijīng rìbào)
  • Hebei Youth Daily (Chinese: 《河北青年报》; pinyin: héběi qīngnián bào)
  • Beijing Science and Technology News (Chinese: 《北京科技报》; pinyin: běijīng kējì bào)
  • Youth Weekend (Chinese: 《青年周末》; pinyin: qīngnián zhōumò)
  • Beijing Today (Chinese: 《今日北京》; pinyin: jīnrì běijīng)
  • Middle School Times (Chinese: 《中学时事报》; pinyin: zhōngxué shíshì bào)
  • Beijing Children's Daily (Chinese: 《北京少年报》; pinyin: běijīng shàonián bào)
  • Top Horizon (Chinese: 《TOP时空》; pinyin: TOP shíkōng)
  • Beijing Youth Weekly (Chinese: 《北京青年周刊》; pinyin: běijīng qīngnián zhōukān)

As well as four magazines:

  • CéCi Sisters (Chinese: 《CéCi姐妹》; pinyin: céci jiěmèi)
  • Casual Fashion (Chinese: 《休闲时尚》; pinyin: xiūxián shíshàng)
  • News Mirror (Chinese: 《时事魔镜》; pinyin: shíshì mójìng)
  • Campus Report 39.2° (Chinese: 《校园报告39度2》; pinyin: xiàoyuán bàogào jiǔshí dù èr)

History

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On December 22, 2004, Beijing Media Corporation Limited (北青传媒股份有限公司), under Beijing Youth Daily Holdings, listed its H-shares in Hong Kong,[6] becoming the first Chinese mainland media company to be publicly traded overseas.[7]

References

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  1. ^ A. Hadland (5 May 2015). Media-State Relations in Emerging Democracies. Springer. pp. 54–. ISBN 978-1-137-49349-1.
  2. ^ Qiu Jin; Yao Wang (1991). The Dictionary of the Work of the Communist Youth League of China. Beijing Yanshan Publishing House. pp. 381–. ISBN 978-7-5402-0275-0.
  3. ^ Fifty Years of New China Media (1949-1999). China Journalism Yearbook Press. 2000. pp. 212–.
  4. ^ "Beijing Youth Daily". WorldCat. OCLC 144518975. Retrieved 2020-12-31.
  5. ^ Sherry S. Yu; Matthew D. Matsaganis (7 December 2018). Ethnic Media in the Digital Age. Routledge. pp. 62–. ISBN 978-1-351-04529-2.
  6. ^ Shixin Ivy Zhang (2 April 2014). Impact of Globalization on the Local Press in China: A Case Study of the Beijing Youth Daily. Lexington Books. pp. 41–. ISBN 978-0-7391-8464-6.
  7. ^ 2004-2005: China Media Industry Development Report. Social Sciences Literature Press. 2005. pp. 84–. ISBN 978-7-80190-626-7.
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