President Xi Jinping called for new measures to get young people in Hong Kong to move to the mainland, following months of student-led protests in the semi-autonomous territory for pro-democratic reforms, according to a report on Wednesday.

The measures are focused on “deepening integration” between young people in Hong Kong, Macau and Guangdong province “to increase their sense of belonging to the motherland,” Xi said, according to Bloomberg News.

His speech Wednesday in Shenzhen marked the 40th anniversary of the city becoming a special economic zone.

China should “fully utilize the important platform of Guangdong-Hong Kong-Macau cooperation to attract more young people from Hong Kong and Macau to study, work and live in the mainland,” Xi said.

Carrie Lam, Hong Kong’s chief executive, attended Xi’s speech after canceling her annual policy address scheduled for Wednesday.

Xi also praised Shenzhen as a model economic city and suggested stronger ties between it and Hong Kong and Macau to create a regional powerhouse.

“We should also continue to encourage and guide our compatriots in Hong Kong, Macau and Taiwan as well as overseas Chinese to play their important roles in investment, entrepreneurship and two-way openness so that they can make new contributions to the development of the special economic zones,” he said.

The unrest erupted in Hong Kong last year after an extradition bill was signed that would have allowed citizens of Hong Kong to be taken to the mainland for trial.

The legislation was eventually withdrawn but the pro-democracy rallies continued.

China responded by cracking down on the protesters by enacting a sweeping new security law that sharply curtailed the right to assembly and freedom of the press.

The Trump administration retaliated to the security law by suspending an extradition treaty and halting a reciprocal tax agreement with Hong Kong.

Seven Chinese women are taking the “Golden Girls” approach to aging after purchasing a house together for their retirement.

“[At first] it was just a joke,” the girlfriends say in a video posted on YouTube from media startup Yitiao featuring their brand-new 7,535-square-foot house in the suburbs of Guangzhou, a major city in southeastern China near Hong Kong. “We [said that we] would get together when we were 60 and live the retired life together.”

That was back in 2008. A decade on, NextShark reports, they’ve made their friendship fantasy a reality, pooling some $584,000 to buy and completely remodel a dilapidated redbrick house an hour outside the Chinese village into a light-filled, glass-coated showstopper.

“We’ve known each other for over 20 years,” says the video’s narrator, who notes that their ages span about 10 years. “We were colleagues, and sometimes we are even closer than siblings.”

The three-and-a-half-story estate is surrounded by paddy fields. It features shared space on the ground floor and individual bedrooms for each of the ladies on the upper level.

Highlights include huge tatami mats for group hangs, a tea room, furniture collected in India and Morocco, and, of course, a long dining table for group meals. Outside there is a swimming pool and even an airy tea pavilion connected via a bamboo walkway.

“We’ll probably cook together, barbecue in the fields, sing and collect food in the village,” the friends say in the video. “We joke that each of us should practice one skill so that we won’t be lonely and fight with each other 10 years later … Some can cook beautiful food, some know traditional Chinese medicine, some play instruments and some grow vegetables.”

The women add their new communal home will keep their chosen family together forever.

“Ten or 15 years later our children might have grown up,” the friends add, “so we also hope that we can still be together in the next years.”

BEIJING — A salad store paraded dozens of half-naked Western men dressed as Spartans through China’s capital as a publicity stunt, causing a stir and drawing a crackdown by police who were photographed restraining some of them on the ground.

About 40 mostly blond and brown-haired men wearing bronze shorts, arm and leg guards and capes styled after the attire of people in the ancient Greek city of Sparta marched in Beijing’s central business district and an upscale shopping area Wednesday. Bearing plastic tubs of salads, the bare-chested men attracted crowds of onlookers and posed for photos with women that circulated widely on social media.

Police were less amused. They dispersed the parade at the Sanlitun shopping area, and photos in state media showed police on top of two of the Spartans who apparently had been wrestled to the ground.

Police said in a statement Thursday that they had to control some “foreigners in short pants” to restore public order. It said the matter was still under investigation.

The store, Sweetie Salad, said the stunt to celebrate their 1-year anniversary generated far more interest than expected. It said in a statement posted online that store representatives spoke with police to clear up any “misunderstanding.”

“We chose Spartans and invited foreign models who are physically fit simply because we wanted to encourage our customers to pursue the beauty of being healthy,” the store said.

The incident follows on the heels of another that drew attention from social media users and police — a home-made sex video purportedly taken in a Uniqlo fitting room, also in Sanlitun.

BEIJING — State-owned airline Air China suspended flights Tuesday between Beijing and North Korea due to a lack of demand, deepening the North’s isolation amid mounting U.N. sanctions over its nuclear and missile programs.

The move followed U.S. President Donald Trump’s decision to add Pyongyang to a list of governments that support terrorism but there was no indication that prompted Air China’s decision. A Chinese foreign ministry spokesman said he had no information.

The suspension left North Korea’s Air Koryo as the only airline with regularly scheduled service to the North. Its website lists flights to Beijing, Shanghai, Shenyang and Dandong in China and Vladivostok in Russia.

Beijing has supported U.N. curbs on North Korean exports meant to pressure the government of leader Kim Jong Un to drop its pursuit of nuclear and missile technology but has argued against measures that might harm the country’s public.

Flights were “temporarily suspended due to unsatisfactory business operations,” said an employee of Air China’s press office who would give only his surname, Zhang.

A foreign ministry spokesman, Lu Kang, said he hadn’t heard about Air China’s cancellation. He said such decisions would be made based on the “state of operation and the market.”

Airlines have steadily reduced the frequency of flights to North Korea as mounting political tensions depressed the already small number of business travelers and tourists visiting the North.

Air China Ltd. announced in April it was cutting the frequency of flights to North Korea due to lack of demand. Some other Chinese carriers offered charter services to the North but those also have been canceled.

Zhang said the last Air China flight to Pyongyang was Monday and he didn’t know when service might resume.

The status of Air Koryo’s flights was unclear. Phone calls to the carrier’s Beijing office weren’t answered. The flight information website for the Beijing airport showed its Pyongyang flight on Tuesday took off as scheduled.

Lu, the foreign ministry spokesman, appealed for measures to ease the tense standoff.

“Given the highly complex and sensitive situation on the peninsula, we hope all relevant parties can do something conducive to alleviating the tension and pulling all sides concerned back to the track of negotiation and dialogue to settle the peninsular nuclear issue,” he said at a regular news briefing.

The Dalai Lama is going to announce details of how he is to be succeeded this week, as he prepares to turn 90 years old.

Traditionally, a new Dalai Lama – leader of 7.7 million Tibetan Buddhists, addressed as His Holiness – is chosen through a mystical and complex set of divinely guided clues and symbols, overseen by Buddhism’s most senior monks.

The monks are led by dream interpretations, meditations at sacred spots and consultations with oracles, a process which often takes years to complete.

But Tenzin Gyatso, the 14th Dalai Lama, has hinted longstanding rules such as his successor being found in the Tibet region and being a male under six years of age may not apply this time around.

12 Ahead of his birthday this week, the Dalai Lama has implored his followers to not accept a successor chosen by China. AP

12 Being assisted by attendants and wearing a ceremonial hat, the Dalai Lama has advised that “there will be some kind of a framework within which we can talk about the continuation of the institution of the Dalai Lama.” AP

The holy man has even joked he could be reincarnated as a “mischievous blond woman” with a “very attractive face.”

“Officials have said the Dalai Lama is expected to send a recorded address clarifying the course of succession,” Dr. Laura Harrington, a senior lecturer in the religion department at Boston University, told The Post.

This is largely due to meddling from China, which is seeking to appoint its own successor. The Communist country annexed Tibet in 1959, causing the Dalai Lama and then-Tibetan government to flee to Dharamshala, India, where they have been based in exile ever since.

“In 2011, the Dalai Lama reserved the right to do three things,” said Harington. “He can end the lineage [meaning that the line of spiritual leaders could end with him], he can recognize a female successor and the successor can [come from] outside of Tibet.

“They’re taking the very notion of Tibet and turning it into the whole world. It’s radical, right?”

12 The Dalai Lama greets an elderly monk at a prayer gather in India, where he gas been living since fleeing Tibet in 1959. Getty Images

12 The Dalai Lama is beloved by Buddhists around the world. Getty Images

The traditional hunt for a new Dalai Lama started with the death of his predecessor. In the case of the 13th Dalai Lama, during the process of him being mummified, his head is said to have turned itself from facing south to northeast, indicating where the 14th Dalai Lama would be found.

A star-shaped fungus on the 13th Dalai Lama’s shrine also helped to guide Buddhism’s senior disciples along their path to find the successor. They arrived at the home where Gyatso lived with his parents in 1937 at Lhamo Latso, also known as “Oracle Lake,” which had been seen by one of the monks in his dreams.

The kid, then called Lhamo Dhondup, was just two years old, but he pinpointed items — including Bhuddhist rosary beads, a walking stick and a drum — that belonged to the former Dalia Lama and is said to have exclaimed, “It’s mine! It’s mine!”

12 Richard Gere came out to celebrate the Dalai Lama’s approaching 90th birthday. AP

12 Patti Smith, alongside the Dalai Lama, is one of many celebrities who have helped to promoted Buddhist teaching a move that is on to free Tibet. Redferns via Getty Images

He was renamed and recognized as the new Dalai Lama in 1939 at the age of four and was schooled by the monks until he assumed full leadership of Tibet in 1950.

However, much has changed since then. Awarded the Nobel Peace Prize in 1989, the Dalai Lama advocates for a non-violent “Middle Way” whereby he would make a peaceful return to his homeland and gain autonomy and religious freedom for Tibetan people.

However, China’s government describes him as a “wolf in monk’s robes.”

“The Dalai Lama has been such a thorn in the side of China. He influences thought in Tibet and Tibetans are the object of China’s wrath,” said Harrington.

12 The 14th Dalai Lama, Tenzin Gyatso, shortly after he had been exiled to India in 1959. Getty Images

“Plus, he’s done such a bang-up job of generating a free Tibet community, with people like Philip Glass, Patti Smith, Richard Gere and Harrison Ford.

“He’s generated an entire identity movement, and he’s allied it with human rights.”

Much of the Dalai Lama’s current planning for a successor is centered around the expected counter-move by China to name their own Dalai Lama, likely through deploying ‘the Golden Urn.’

The Golden Urn was introduced by the Qing dynasty of China in 1793 as a way to draw straws from the vessel to determine who would be the next Dalai Lama, in a lottery format.

“In the 1990s the Chinese Communist Party resurrected the Golden Urn as a symbol of Chinese sovereignty in Tibet and as a tool to retain control over the physical personages of future Dalai Lamas,” said Max Oidtmann, author of “Forging the Golden Urn,” in an interview with Columbia University Press.

12 The Golden Urn, out of which Chinese officials may select a person to succeed the Dalai Lama. CGTN

The Golden Urn emulated Chinese bureaucratic practices of the time, and Oidtmann writes in his book about how within a decade it “became a fairly routine part of the process of identifying important reincarnations,” although it has since been rejected by the current Dalai Lama.

China is home to some 53 million Buddhists, around 16% of the world’s estimated 324 million adherents of the religion, according to the Pew research center.

One follower of Buddhism’s fears about China’s version is, “it will be all names of people related to Communist party leaders” in the urn.

12 Christian Wedemeyer, an associate professor in the divinity school at University of Chicago, told The Post, “The Dalia Lama is setting up, and he’s making as much noise as he can to say that the Chinese have no business having anything to do with this.” Christian K. Wedemeyer

12 Dr. Laura Harrington, a senior lecturer in the religion department at Boston University, told The Post. “Something is going to happen in July … It’s going to be big.” Laura Harrington

Although Tibetan Buddhists are excited to see the Dalai Lama’s new plans, they don’t expect him to be replaced soon – as he’s predicted he will live to 113 years old, based partly on a dream in which he took 13 steps.

“I’m not speculating,” Harrington said. “Maybe he will specify a mechanism — like a search committee. Or a cool clue to something. Maybe he’ll simply restate his principles.”

“The Dalia Lama is setting up, and he’s making as much noise as he can to say that the Chinese have no business having anything to do with this,” Christian Wedemeyer, an associate professor of the history of religion at University of Chicago, told The Post.

“[China’s] going to say they have the Dalai Lama … and the people beholden to the Chinese government will go through the motions of respecting that.”

The Chinese plan is met with resistance by Tibetan leaders.

“China is trying to grab this institution … for its political purpose.

“We want the incarnation of the Dalai Lama to be born not only for the survival of Tibet as a distinct culture, religion and nation, but also for the well-being of the whole humanity,” said Dolma Tsering Teykhang, deputy speaker of the Tibetan parliament-in-exile, to Reuters.

12 The Dalai Lama will soon release major news to the world. AP

Beijing has previously said that because the Dalai Lama is in exile he has no right to lead the Tibetan people who remain in the region and call on him to recognize Tibet as part of China.

A spokesperson from the Chinese Embassy told The Post, “The Chinese government implements a policy of freedom of religious belief and has promulgated The Regulatory Measures on the Reincarnation of Living Buddhas of Tibetan Buddhism in 2007.

“This document is grounded in respect for the unique characteristics of Tibetan Buddhism as well as the principles of the rule of law.”

Prayers were held to promote a long life for the Dalai Lama this week, attended by prominent Buddhists from across Southeast Asia.

“The rest of my life I will dedicate for the benefit of others, as much as possible, as extensive as possible,” he told his followers in return.