The first white paper on youth in the history of new China, "Chinese youth in the new era", was officially released on the 21st. This white paper objectively presents the great achievements made in the development of Chinese Youth since the 18th CPC National Congress and outlines the mainstream image of Chinese youth in the new era. What are the characteristics and features of Chinese youth in the new era? The white paper first announced the urbanization rate of young permanent residents. What is the meaning of referring to the medium and long term youth development plan (2016-2025)? The person in charge of relevant departments answered at the press conference held by the Information Office of the State Council on the same day. The ideals and beliefs of Chinese youth in the new era are more firm The white paper points out that Chinese young students in the new era meet the best period of the development of the Chinese nation, have a better development environment and broader growth space, and are faced with a rare life opportunity to make achievements. He Junke, first Secretary of the Secretariat of the Central Committee of the Communist Youth League, said at the press conference that since the 18th CPC National Congress, China's youth development has made historic achievements, including significant improvement in the material conditions supporting youth development, rich and colorful spiritual and cultural life of contemporary youth, better and stronger health level of youth, significantly improved education level and more full and diverse employment opportunities for youth. He Junke introduced that Chinese youth in the new era mainly show the characteristics and style of firmer ideals and beliefs, continuous improvement of knowledge literacy, self-confidence and outlook in psychological state, full display of the spirit of being brave to take responsibility and broad vision. He Junke said that the energetic, confident and enterprising spirit of Chinese youth has fully proved that the Chinese government is completely correct in adhering to the Marxist outlook on youth, the principle of the Party Managing youth and the concept of giving priority to youth development. The leadership of the Communist Party of China and the socialist system are the fundamental reasons for the historic achievements of China's youth development and the fundamental basis for its continued development. A youth development policy system and working mechanism with Chinese characteristics have taken shape The white paper refers to the medium and long term youth development plan (2016-2025), which is the first national youth field special plan in the history of new China formulated and issued by the CPC Central Committee and the State Council in April 2017, providing fundamental policy guidance for the development of Chinese youth in the new era. He Junke said that over the past five years, with the concern of all parties, the institutional system supporting youth development has been continuously improved. There are more than 10 laws directly related to youth development, and a basic legal support system has been established; The framework of planning system related to youth development has been fully established, relevant plans have been issued at the national level, and all provinces have issued their own youth development plans; Some requirements for youth development are incorporated into the national 13th five year plan and 14th five year plan. It is reported that the coordination mechanism for promoting youth development has been fully established, which has made a substantive contribution to solving the problem of "urgent difficulties and expectations" of youth. The Communist Youth League has played a role as a bridge and a face-to-face communication mechanism with deputies to the National People's Congress and members of the Chinese people's Political Consultative Conference to orderly express some prominent problems in youth development. He Junke said that in recent years, we have focused on exploring more effective ways and means to promote the implementation of planning, packaged some scattered policies and promoted youth development as a whole. Through efforts, a youth development policy system and working mechanism with Chinese characteristics have been preliminarily formed by 2020. Make the youth atmosphere of urban development stronger The white paper announced the urbanization rate of young permanent residents for the first time, pointing out that the urbanization rate of young permanent residents will reach 71.1% in 2020, an increase of 15.3 percentage points over a decade ago and 7.2 percentage points higher than the overall urbanization rate of permanent residents. "This proportion will increase in the future", Fu Zhenbang, Secretary of the Secretariat of the Central Committee of the Communist Youth League, said at the press conference that building a youth development city is an important carrier for Solidly Promoting people-centered urbanization and an important grasp for effectively promoting the in-depth implementation of the medium and long-term youth development plan. On April 1, the Central Committee of the Communist Youth League, together with 17 departments including the Central Propaganda Department and the national development and Reform Commission, issued relevant opinions to carry out the pilot construction of youth development oriented cities, and clearly put forward the concept of urban development that cities are more friendly to youth and youth are more promising in cities. Fu Zhenbang introduced that the "seven efforts to optimize" put forward in the opinions is to ensure that the development rights and interests of young people, such as the right to education, the right to life, the right to survival, the right to work and the right to residence, are more fully guaranteed, and let the city provide better space, platform, environment and conditions for the successful growth of young people; The opinions put forward that the "five organizational mobilization" refers to making young people the main body and master of urban development and highlighting the contribution of youth in the construction of material civilization, political civilization, spiritual civilization, social civilization and ecological civilization of high-quality urban development. To win youth is to win the present and future. Fu Zhenbang said that instead of "one size fits all", we should fully respect the reality of the grass-roots level and adopt the method of pilot first and gradual promotion. It is hoped that after two years of pilot, dozens of cities will be identified to explore first, so as to form a number of practical achievements that can be copied and popularized in terms of youth's suitability for work, study, home, residence and education, promote the solution of youth's "urgent and difficult" problems, give better play to youth's innovation and creation, and promote high-quality urban development. (Xinhua News Agency)