--FILE--Jeunes étudiants chinois assermenter au cours d'une cérémonie pour devenir de nouveaux membres de la Ligue de la jeunesse communiste de Chine au milieu du comté de Rongan Scho
--FILE--Young Chinese students swear in during a ceremony for becoming new members of the Communist Youth League of China at Rongan County Middle School in Rongan county, Liuzhou city, south China's Guangxi Zhuang Autonomous Region, 4 May 2014. China's influential Communist Youth League has had its budget slashed by more than 50 percent for this year, a state-run newspaper reported on Tuesday (3 May 2016), after the organization came under fire in official media over graft scandals and inefficiency. The youth league, a stronghold of former president Hu Jintao, is widely seen as a training ground for elite positions within the party, and the cutting of its budget signals a further loss of influence. Last week, the league said it would carry out reforms including cracking down on corruption and enforcing strict political discipline. The Global Times, an influential tabloid published by the party's official People's Daily, said the league's budget for this year would be 306.27 million yuan ($47.33 million), compared with spending of 624.13 million yuan the previous year.
