Chinese Muslim Youth League was established with the name Chinese Muslim Youth Cultural Improvement Association in early 1930s in Mukden during the Second Sino-Japanese War to unite Muslim young men for the war against Imperial Japanese Army and Japanese puppet state of Manchukuo.

[2] The league built and runs the Taipei Cultural Mosque, in which it becomes the group headquarters.

[1] Although the organization never actively sponsor any Islamic missionary work, they still host some conversions, mostly for marriage reason.

[1] In general, the league feels that they have more appeal to younger and more progressive groups.

It conducts regular classes for younger people and stresses instruction in Islamic law and theology rather than in Arabic language and ceremonial concerns.