The Communist Youth League of China (中国共产主义青年团; abbr. 共青团) is an all-purpose school for Communist Party of China members. Except for its top-ranking officials, the league's members, from fifteen to twenty-five years of age, are indoctrinated, trained, and prepared to serve as future party regulars. The league is organized on the party pattern. Its leader is identified as first secretary and member of the party's Central Committee. The Communist Youth League was responsible also for guiding the activities of the Communist Young Pioneers (for children below the age of fifteen). Chinese Communist Party flag The Chinese Communist Party (Simplified Chinese: 中国共产党; Traditional Chinese: 中國共産黨; pinyin: ) is the ruling party of the Peoples Republic of China. ... The Central Committee of the Communist Party of China (Chinese: 中国共产党中央委员会 pinyin: Zhōngguó GòngchÇŽndÇŽng Zhōngyāng WÄ›iyuánhuì) is the highest authority within the Communist Party of China between Party Congresses. ... Czechoslovakian pioneers A pioneer movement is an organization for children operated by a communist party. ...

History

Founded in August 1920, it was originally named as the Socialist Youth League of China (中國社會主義青年團). Whilst the Party was officially established in July 1921, the Chinese Socialist Youth League was organized with the Party being set up throughout the country. In May 1922, the 1st National Representative Conference (全國代表大會) of the League was held under the leadership of the Party, and therefore became a unified organization in China. In the 3rd National Representation Conference in January 1925, the Chinese Socialist Youth League was renamed as the Chinese Communist Youth League. After the war resisting against Japan, in order to adapt to the new social and political situation, it was officially renamed as the Chinese New Democracy Youth League (中國新民主主義青年團) in April 1949. 1920 is a leap year starting on Thursday (link will take you to calendar) // Events January January 7 - Forces of Russian White admiral Kolchak surrender in Krasnoyarsk. ... 1921 was a common year starting on Saturday (see link for calendar). ... 1925 was a common year starting on Thursday (link will take you to calendar). ... The Second Sino-Japanese War was a major invasion of eastern China by Japan preceding and during World War II. It ended with the surrender of Japan in 1945. ...

Later in May 1957, its name as the Chinese Communist Youth League was resumed, historically combining the conferences of all three leagues (the Chinese Socialist Youth League, the Chinese Communist Youth League as well as the Chinese New Democracy Youth League). During the 10 years of the Cultural Revolution, the functioning of the League was blocked. From 1978 to 2003, 5 conferences were held. The current central committee members of the League had been elected since the 15th National Representative Conference in July 2003. 1957 was a common year starting on Tuesday of the Gregorian calendar. ... A poster during the Cultural Revolution The Great Proletarian Cultural Revolution (Simplified Chinese: 无产阶级文化大革命; Traditional Chinese: 無產階級文化大革命; pinyin: ; literally Proletarian Cultural Great Revolution; often abbreviated to 文化大革命 wén huà dà gé mìng, literally Great Cultural Revolution, or simply 文革 wén gé, literally Cultural Revolution) in the Peoples Republic of China... 1978 was a common year starting on Sunday (the link is to a full 1978 calendar). ... 2003(MMIII) is a common year starting on Wednesday of the Gregorian calendar. ...

Structure

The national leading organization is the National Representative Conferences and the central committee elected by the conferences. The National Representative Conferences are held each 5 years, can can be held earlier or later under special circumstances. The central committee is to, in between the time of two conferences, implement the decisions made in the National Representative Conferences and lead the implementation of the duties of the League as a whole. In addition to the central committee, there are General Affairs Committees which are responsible for the implementation of daily affairs of the League. They are to lead the fundamental organizations in 31 provinces of the country. Up to the end of 2002, there were 210,000 committee members of fundamental organizations and 69,860,000 League members.

Its official newspaper is the China Youth Daily. The China Youth Daily (中國青年報) is one of the most important daily official newspapers and is the first independently operated central government news media portal in the Peoples Republic of China. ...

See also

• Young Communist League

The Young Communist League was or is the name used by the youth wing of various Communist parties around the world such as the Young Communist League in Britain and the Young Communist League, USA. In the Soviet Union the youth organization under control of the Communist Party of the...

Reference

• This article incorporates public domain text from the Library of Congress Country Studies. - China

The public domain comprises the body of all creative works and other knowledge—writing, artwork, music, science, inventions, and others—in which no person or organization has any proprietary interest. ... The Country Studies are works published by the Federal Research Division of the Library of Congress ( USA), freely available for use by researchers. ...

External link

• CYC official site