On 13 January 2022, the China-CEE Institute invited Prof. LI Chunling, Vice-Chair of the Center for China Education Development at the Chinese Academy of Social Sciences, to deliver a lecture entitled “China’s Youth: Children of the Reform and Opening-up”. The Institute’s non-resident researchers and researchers from partner institutions participated in the lecture.
In this lecture, Prof. LI answered several key questions about China’s youth generations based on national surveys: what are the distinct characteristics and views of China’s youth? How do their views, values, and voices differ from preceding generations? What are their intra-generational differences? Prof. LI argued that as a result of the reform and opening-up, China’s youth saw higher economic prosperity, increased educational attainment, and new culture on the internet, they became supporters of value change and demonstrated cultural self-confidence as China grew to global prominence.
The lecture lasted about one hour in total. During the Q & A session, the participants posed several questions about the notion of fertility and marriage, and social responsibilities in China’s youth generation, and changes in the opinion of state-owned and private firms among China’s youth, etc.
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