Type | Daily newspaper |
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Format | Broadsheet |
Publisher | Beijing Youth Daily Agency |
Editor-in-chief | Yu Haibo |
Founded | March 21, 1949 |
Language | Chinese ( simplified) |
Headquarters | Beijing |
Circulation | 650,000 (2000) |
OCLC number | 144518975 |
Website |
epaper.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.
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:
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]