Asocietywith10percentofitspopulationaged60andabovecanbereferredtoasan鈥渁gingsociety,鈥漵aidWuYushao,DeputyDirectoroftheoffice.
SinceChinafirstbecameanagingsocietyin1999,thenumberofpeopleaged60andabovehasseenanetincreaseof110million.Itisestimatedthatthenumberofseniorswillpeakaround2050toreach487million,34.9percentofChina鈥檚totalpopulation,Wusaid.Thegovernmenthassteppedupnationwideeducationonagingwiththeaimtoraisecitizens鈥檃warenessandcalledonthepublictocarefortheelderly.Localgovernmentsarerequiredtoimproveworkingmechanismsforpromotingaging-relatededucation,whichhasbeenincorporatedintotheirannualworkplans.
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CommercialRecoverableSatellite
Chinawilllaunchitsfirstcommercialrecoverablesatellitebetween2019and2020,anofficialwiththeChinaAcademyofSpaceTechnology(CAST)said.RecoverablesatellitesareanimportantpartofChina鈥檚spaceprogramandarehighlyreliable,saidCASTPresidentZhangHongtai.Chinahassuccessfullyretrievedmorethan20recoverablesatellitessince1975.ThesametechnologyhashelpedChineseastronautsreturnfromspace,hesaid.鈥淲eplantoupgradethistechnologyinordertosatisfytheneedsofcommercialusers,鈥漵aidZhang,addingrecoverablesatelliteswillbeabletoplayanimportantroleinspacebiologydevelopmentandspacescientificexperiments.
LiBYABetterEmploymentforYouth
TheLibyanMinisterofLaborsaidonMarch10thathisministryisworkingonaroadmaptosupporttheprivatesectortoprovidemoreemploymentopportunitiesforyoungpeople.Al-MehdiAl-AminmadetheremarksattheThirdStartupsExpoinLibya.鈥淲ealsoseektodevelopstrategiesandactionplans,inpartnershipwithinternationalorganizations,tosupportmicroenterprisesthatrepresentanimportantpartofthenationaleconomy,鈥滱l-Aminsaid.Theministerstressedtheimportanceofgovernmentsupportforcreatingemploymentopportunitiesforyoungpeople.
Al-Aminsaidthehighunemploymentrateofyoungpeoplemakethemsusceptibletoviolenceinthecountry.