In this paper, we set up a new Yamabe type flow on a compact Riemannian manifold $(M,g)$ of dimension $n\geq 3$. Let $\psi(x)$ be any smooth function on $M$. Let $p=\frac{ n+2}{ n-2}$ and $c_n=\frac{ 4(n-1)}{ n-2}$. We study the Yamabe-type flow $u=u(t)$ satisfying { u_t}=u^{ 1-p}(c_n\Delta u-\psi(x)u)+r(t)u, \ \ in \ M\times (0,T),\ T>0 with r(t)=\int_M(c_n|\nabla u|^2+\psi(x)u^2)dv/ \int_Mu^{ p+1}, which preserves the $L^{ p+1}(M)$-norm and we can show that for any initial metric $u_0>0$, the flow exists globally. We also show that in some cases, the global solution converges to a smooth solution to the equation c_n\Delta u-\psi(x)u+r(\infty)u^{ p}=0, \ \ on \ M and our result may be considered as a generalization of the result of T.Aubin, Proposition in p.131 in \cite{ A82}.
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