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[摘要]October 25 is the Double Ninth Festival. On this occasion, in addition to greeting the elderly, expressing filial piety, and promoting the Chinese nation’s virtues of respecting, providing for the elderly, and helping the elderly, we must also face the many problems that an aging society brings.
October 25 is the Double Ninth Festival. On this occasion, in addition to greeting the elderly, expressing filial piety, and promoting the Chinese nation’s virtues of respecting, providing for the elderly, and helping the elderly, we must also face the many problems that an aging society brings.
At present, our country is in a period of rapid development of the aging population, and the list of “silver-haired people” is getting bigger and bigger. According to a recent announcement by the Ministry of Civil Affairs, during the period of the “XIV Five-Year Plan”, China’s elderly population will exceed 300 million and go from mild to moderate aging.
So how big is the elderly population? At the end of 2019, there were approximately 254 million people aged 60 and over in the country, representing 18.4% of the total population. In recent years, Shaanxi’s aging population has continued to deepen and the working-age population is also facing the reality of increasing burdens.
According to statistics from the Shaanxi Provincial Bureau of Statistics, at the end of 2019, the province had a permanent population of 38,762,100, including 7,023,700 people aged 60 and over, an increase of 276,000 from the previous year, which which represents 18.12% of the population of the province. In recent years it has had an upward trend.
Affected by changes in the age structure, the burden of supporting the working-age population aged 16 to 59 in Shaanxi continued to increase in 2019. The social support ratio increased from 48.79% in 2018 to 50.67% in 2019, an increase of 1.88 percentage points.
The Provincial Bureau of Statistics pointed out that because Shaanxi is a province with an outflow of population, a large number of people of working age go to work outside the province, which has further deepened the degree of aging of the permanent population. in our province. Affected by the decline in the birth population and the age structure of the population, the proportion of the working-age population is expected to decline in the coming years, the proportion of the elderly population will increase, and aging will continue to deepen.
According to data released by the Ministry of Civil Affairs, at the end of 2019 there were 204,000 old-age care establishments and facilities throughout the country, with a total of 7.75 million old-age beds and 30.5 old-age beds for each 1,000 elderly. At present, the average number of beds per 1,000 elderly in developed countries is 50 to 70. According to provincial data for the fourth quarter of 2019, Shaanxi has 689 nursing homes and 99 144 beds in nursing homes. old people. Compared to the province’s 7,203,700 people aged 60 and over, there is also a shortage of beds in institutions for the elderly.
Industry insiders pointed out that China is currently in a period of rapid population aging, and the “silver-haired people” are getting bigger and bigger. Compared with developed countries that have entered population aging before, China’s population aging process is ahead of economic and social development, and aging problems, social support resources and transformation problems social and development are intertwined and overlapping. Therefore, the challenges to be addressed are more serious.
China Business Daily reporter Li Cheng
Source: China Business Network-China Business News
Editor: Founder of the newspaper
