Roseann Lake invites guests working on the One Young World China Programs. Hear how they promote green awareness amongst the young generation, their future plans, and how to get involved.

Roseann Lake invites guests working on the One Young World China Programs. Hear how they promote green awareness amongst the young generation, their future plans, and how to get involved.

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The number of young Internet addicts in China soared to 24 million last year as the world's largest web population exploded, according to a survey carried by state media Wednesday.

The number of young addicts almost doubled from 2005 and now accounts for one in seven young Internet users, according to the poll conducted by the China Youth Association for Network Development.

"Going to a retirement home is quite a new concept for the elderly here. It goes against our traditional ideas so the older generation find it hard to accept. But the younger generation are more accepting of this idea. We can pay for our parents to go to a retirement home and we can go and visit them. I don't think it's a bad idea. "

"Because of the one child policy, it's becoming more and more difficult for younger generation to take care of the elderly, so the government should take responsibility for them. When people are young, they contribute to society so when they get old, society should help them live the rest of their lives in comfort and happiness. "

So exactly what is different about this 90s generation and how they feel about life? As Tom Spender mentions in his report this is the first generation to go up, virtually from birth, with the internet as part of their lives. And in a society where respect for elders and parents plays a hugely important role, that’s exactly where they go to express their frustrations about their relations with their parents and life in general.

China's generation of the 90s – youngsters born after 1990 – is seen as different from those that went before them in many ways. Now the generation gap has existed as long as human society but this particular group seems to has demonstrated a particularly inpidual way of viewing, and living, life. BON’s Tom Spender has more