The Communist Youth League of China, created in May 1922, is a mass organization of advanced youth under the leadership of the CPC. Basic tasks of the league at the current stage are to unite and lead youths to focus on economic construction and, during the great practice of building socialism with Chinese characteristics, to temper themselves as successors who are well educated and have lofty ideals, moral integrity and high sense of discipline. The league had 71.07 million members at the end of 2003, who are at the age of between 14 and 28 years. The current first secretary of the Secretariat of the league's Central Committee is Zhou Qiang.