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The youth phase is considered a transitional period from a child to an adult during one’s life cycle. This transition included occupational, social, and cultural transitions. The major featured transition was from school to steady employment due to financial independent, maturity, and self-management of the youths. Nevertheless, the length of education and unstable employment has made the boundary of transitions blurred, and the length of transition in the youth’s life cycle was impacted.
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A young society was defined internationally as having an age group of 0–14 more than 40 % of the total population. An adult society was defined at the level of 30–40 %. An elderly society or aging society was defined at the level of 30 % and below. As the nation enters an elderly society, the median of the population is over 30 years old.
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Li, P. (2016). New Generation Emergence and Policy Innovation in Social Governance. In: Li, P. (eds) Great Changes and Social Governance in Contemporary China. China Insights. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-662-45734-4_5
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