Young Pioneers of China

Young Pioneers of China
中国少年先锋队
LeaderA Dong
Founded1924; 100 years ago (1924) (foundation)
13 October 1949; 75 years ago (1949-10-13) (official)
HeadquartersBeijing
Membership130,000,000 (2007)[1]
Ideology
Mother party
International affiliationInternational Committee of Children's and Adolescents' Movements (historical)[citation needed]
NewspaperChina Children's News
China Teenagers' News
Websitezgsxd.k618.cn Edit this at Wikidata
Young Pioneers of China standing honour guard at the Monument to the People's Heroes at Tiananmen Square
A group of Young Pioneers in Tiananmen Square in October 2007

The Young Pioneers of China (Chinese: 中国少年先锋队; pinyin: Zhōngguó Shàonián Xiānfēngduì), often shortened to the Young Pioneers (Chinese: 少先队; pinyin: Shàoxiānduì) and sometimes translated into English as Red Pioneers,[2]: 60  is a mass youth organization for children aged six to fourteen in the People's Republic of China. The Young Pioneers of China is run by the Communist Youth League, an organization of older youth that comes under the Chinese Communist Party (CCP). The Young Pioneers of China is similar to Pioneer Movements that exist or existed in many Communist countries around the world.

  1. ^ "中国1.3亿少先队员将举行全国代表大会_CCTV.com_中国中央电视台" [China's 130 million young pioneers to hold a national congress]. news.cntv.cn. May 30, 2010.
  2. ^ Marquis, Christopher; Qiao, Kunyuan (2022). Mao and Markets: The Communist Roots of Chinese Enterprise. Kunyuan Qiao. New Haven: Yale University Press. doi:10.2307/j.ctv3006z6k. ISBN 978-0-300-26883-6. JSTOR j.ctv3006z6k. OCLC 1348572572.