Membership
Young Pioneers consist of children between the ages of six and fourteen; upon reaching the age of fourteen, members automatically exit the Young Pioneers and may go on to join the Communist Youth League.
Most elementary school students are Young Pioneers by the time they graduate from grade school. Most of the schools requires students of the right age to become Young Pioneers. There were an estimated 130 million Young Pioneers in China, as of 2002.
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