Four in five of China鈥檚 centenarians are women
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About four-fifths of the more than 54,000 Chinese centenarians are women, with a 127-year-old from northwest China the oldest, according to figures released yesterday.
The Geriatric Society of China (GSC) claimed the oldest person in China is Alimihan Seyiti, a Uygur born on June 25, 1886. She lives in Shule County in Xinjiang Uygur Autonomous Region.
If verified, Seyiti could be the oldest person in the world, beating the Guinness World Record of 122 set by Jeanne Calment from France.
Seyiti was honored by the GSC in June as the oldest person in China, after the death of Luo Meizhen in Guangxi Zhuang Autonomous Region, who was born in 1885.
Xinjiang, Hunan, Yunnan, Shandong, Guangxi and Sichuan are home to China’s 10 oldest supercentenarians — those at least 110 — and their average age is 119.2 years.
And rural life seems more conducive to longevity, for among the 54,166 centenarians, about three-quarters are from the countryside.
The GSC also published a list of the 10 oldest couples in China, who live in Shanghai and in the provinces of Hainan, Henan, Liaoning and Fujian.
According to the GSC, the oldest couple are Ping Muhu and his wife Zhang Xinniu, from Yuzhou City in central China’s Henan Province, with a combined age of 213 years.
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