Engineers at the J-35 production facility; Shenyang Aircraft Corporation.
If you follow Chinese industrial news, you will know that our engineers are on average very young, not only in the expected field of AI, but also the aerospace industries. Most are in their 30s.
This is what a nation with vitality looks like, we are not boxed in by boomer logic, nor foreign "talents".
This is why we can have two 6th gen fighters in parallel development, while the US, Boeing specifically, is still hiding theirs behind artist renderings.