Content And Enlightenment Of Foreign Youth Policy

The Medium-and Long-term Youth Development Plan(2016-2025)issued by the CPC Central Committee and the State Council in 2017 has made a leap from "0" to "1" in China’s youth development plan since the founding of the People’s Republic of China.In order to constantly improve the policy to adapt to the development of Chinese youth in the new era,we can learn from the experience of some foreign countries in formulating youth policies.In this regard,this study will focus on the youth policy texts of 15 foreign countries.The 15 countries were divided into five categories based on GDP per capita and youth development index(YDI).With the help of policy paradigm theory and framework problem theory,this study started from six analysis elements of "target group,policy objective,implementation subject and path,object field measures and policy evaluation",and used Nvivo qualitative software to analyze different types of national youth policy texts through content analysis.It is found that the youth policies of different countries not only have certain commonness,but also show different characteristics.Among them,the commonness is mainly reflected in the two factors of "target field measures" and "implementation subject".The former is embodied in: most countries attach importance to education,health,employment and entrepreneurship,and social integration and participation.The latter is to advocate the coordination and cooperation of multiple subjects to implement the youth policy.As for the characteristics of youth policies,they are mainly reflected in the five elements of "target groups,target field measures,policy evaluation,policy objectives and implementation subjects and paths" of the two types of countries: "lowhigh and high-high".First of all,different from the other four types,the youth policies of "high-high" countries show a low baseline and upper limit for the age division of young people,but cover a wide range of areas with detailed and rich contents in terms of object field measures.Secondly,as for the policy objectives,the overall objectives of the youth policy are specific and clear.Moreover,the policy objectives involve a wide range of specific quantitative indicators,which is also reflected in the "lowhigh" mode of countries.Similarly,the description of the implementation subject and path of these two types of countries is relatively clear.Finally,most "high-high" national youth policies lack provisions for policy evaluation.Through the analysis of foreign youth policies,it is suggested that in the implementation of the Plan,we should implement the affairs of each target area into specific departments to improve the effectiveness of policy implementation,and corresponding quantitative indicators should be established to provide relatively authoritative reference for policy evaluation.