China Youth University for Political Sciences
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China Youth University for Political Sciences (中国青年政治学院) is a university in Beijing
Beijing
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, People's Republic of China
People's Republic of China
China , officially the People's Republic of China , is the most populous country in the world, with over 1.3 billion citizens. Located in East Asia, the country covers approximately 9.6 million square kilometres...

. The university was officially established in 1985 by the Communist Youth League of China ( or Chinese Communist Youth League, 中国共产主义青年团). Since then the university has been affiliated with the league, and the leader (First Secretary) of the league usually holds the presidency of the university. Mr. Hu Jintao
Hu Jintao
Hu Jintao is the current Paramount Leader of the People's Republic of China. He has held the titles of General Secretary of the Communist Party of China since 2002, President of the People's Republic of China since 2003, and Chairman of the Central Military Commission since 2004, succeeding Jiang...

, the CPC General Secretary and President of China
President of China
The President of China can refer to:*President of the People's Republic of China...

, was once the president of this university. The university's 180 Chinese-acre campus is located in Xisanhuan Bei Lu (West 3rd Ring Northern Road) in Beijing.

History

The university grew from the Central School of the Communist Youth League of China (中央团校) which was founded in 1948.

Colleges and Majors

The university is a major law and politics institute in China doing research on Marxism, Public Administration, Youth Culture and Youth Development, Social Work, Criminal Law, and Journalism. The first youth work department in China was founded in this university in 1985. The university also has the first and largest social work department (now a social work college) in mainland China.

China Youth University for Political Sciences focuses on undergraduate education. The university has undergraduate majors such as Economics, Law, Journalism and Mass Communication, Social Work, Sociology, Social Security, Youth Work, Public Administration, Chinese Language and Literature, and Foreign Languages and Literature.

The university also provides post-graduate education in such fields as Marxism, Sociology, Criminal Law, Economic Law, Journalism, and Economics.

List of presidents

  • Hu Yaobang
    Hu Yaobang
    Hu Yaobang was a leader of the People's Republic of China who served as both Chairman and Party General Secretary. Hu joined the Chinese Communist Party in the 1930s, and rose to prominence as a comrade of Deng Xiaoping...

     (胡耀邦): 1957-1978
  • Han Ying (韩英): 1978-1982
  • Wang Zhaoguo
    Wang Zhaoguo
    Wang Zhaoguo is a Chinese politician who came to prominence during the era of Deng Xiaoping. At age 41 he had already acquired a ministerial position job.-Biography:...

     (王兆国): 1982-1984
  • Hu Jintao
    Hu Jintao
    Hu Jintao is the current Paramount Leader of the People's Republic of China. He has held the titles of General Secretary of the Communist Party of China since 2002, President of the People's Republic of China since 2003, and Chairman of the Central Military Commission since 2004, succeeding Jiang...

     (胡锦涛): 1984 -1985
  • Song Defu
    Song Defu
    Song Defu was a politician of the People's Republic of China. He was born in Yanshan, Hebei Province, and was educated at college. He joined the People's Liberation Army in 1965, and the Communist Party of China the same year. He was an alternate member of CPC's 12th central committee, and a...

     (宋德福): 1985-1993
  • Li Keqiang
    Li Keqiang
    Li Keqiang is the First-ranking Vice-Premier and deputy Party secretary of the State Council of the People's Republic of China, the seventh ranked member of the Politburo Standing Committee, the People's Republic of China's de facto highest decision-making body...

     (李克强): 1993-1998
  • Zhou Qiang
    Zhou Qiang
    Zhou Qiang is a politician of the People's Republic of China. He currently serves as the Party chief of the Communist Party of China Hunan committee, first-in-charge of the central Chinese province. He served as the province's governor between 2007 and 2010. Zhou's ascendancy to the party...

     (周强): 1998 -2006
  • Hu Chunhua
    Hu Chunhua
    Hu Chunhua is a politician of the People's Republic of China. He is currently the Communist Party Secretary of the Inner Mongolia Autonomous Region, the region's top political office. Hu has worked in Tibet for much of his political career and ascended the party ranks partly through the Communist...

     (胡春华): 2006 - 2008
  • Lu Hao
    Lu Hao (born 1967)
    Lu Hao is a Chinese politician. He is the current first secretary of the Communist Youth League of China and president of the China Youth University for Political Sciences.-Sources:* * * *...

    (陆昊): 2008- incumbent

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