China has been providing more material support for youth development, said He Junke, first secretary of the Secretariat of the 18th Central Committee of the Communist Youth League of China (CYLC). He made the remarks on Thursday during a press conference on a white paper titled "Youth of China in the New Era." China spends more than 2 trillion yuan (about $310 billion) a year on research and development and over 4 trillion yuan on investment in education, he said.