Aging woes for Beijing
Source: Xinhua |
November 21, 2010, Sunday
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BEIJING will face the challenge of an aging population over the coming five years and the city has limited experience in dealing with the phenomenon, the Beijing Morning Post reported yesterday.
At the end of 2009, registered senior citizens in Beijing numbered 2.27 million, or 18.2 percent of the city's total population of permanent residents, the report said.
The city will have a moderately aged society when its aged population reaches 3.24 million in 2015, it added.
A survey conducted recently for the municipal political consultative conference found that of 4,000-plus respondents, 24.5 percent intended to live in homes for the aged, a level much higher than the 4-percent level the municipal government expected.
At the end of 2009, registered senior citizens in Beijing numbered 2.27 million, or 18.2 percent of the city's total population of permanent residents, the report said.
The city will have a moderately aged society when its aged population reaches 3.24 million in 2015, it added.
A survey conducted recently for the municipal political consultative conference found that of 4,000-plus respondents, 24.5 percent intended to live in homes for the aged, a level much higher than the 4-percent level the municipal government expected.
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