Employers and local governments need a stable population to keep up economy's growth momentum.
Different people have different health conditions and this will become a more serious problem should the authorities raise the retirement age for workers.
Yu Zhichen, founder of Turning Robot, shared his ambitious Chinese dream of placing an artificial intelligent robot into every household.
Beijing sets a population ceiling of 23 million as the capital grapples with a shortage of water and a looming limit in carrying capacity.
The number of permanent residents aged 60 and older is predicted to reach 4 million by 2020, compared to 3.2 million at the end of 2014.
The top leadership of the Communist Party of China pledged on Monday to increase its efforts to eliminate poverty in rural areas and defeat regional poverty by 2020.
The central government will launch a host of projects that involve cutting-edge technologies, Internet applications, high-end equipment and key industries, Premier Li Keqiang said on Tuesday.
China has huge market potential to become a "well-off society" by 2020, a major goal of the 13th five-year plan, the country's top economic planner said on Thursday.
China will open various channels for foreigners to offer their advice on the country's new five-year development plan from now until January.
In recent years, China has been playing an increasingly larger role in promoting common development of the whole world, and the country's noble intentions for a better world have once again become apparent, manifested by the key concepts of a socio-economic development plan for the next five years.
Innovation should play a key role in China's development in the next five years, as outlined in a plan drafted in late October, according to Vice-Premier Liu Yandong.
China's development blueprint for the next five years, the 13th Five-Year Plan, has attracted wide attention from overseas, with many media and experts expecting it to have a major bearing on the trajectory of world economic development.