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    How Can China Cope With an Increasingly Aging Population?

    Nov 12, 2020 5 minutes
    Copyedited by Garth Wilson

    According to a recent release by the Ministry of Civil Affairs, the number of people over the age of 60 in China is set to surpass 300 million during the period of China’s 14th Five-Year Plan (2021-25), indicating that China will fall into the category of a moderately aging society. As a consequence of the one child policy, China’s population growth is currently slowing, and the elderly are making up an increasing proportion of the population. At the same time, government statistics indicate China’s working-age population has been shrinking since 2012.

    In five to 10 years’ time, the parents of those born in the 1980s will gradually pass the threshold of 70, and an increasing number of elderly people requiring extra nursing and care will be a tough test for the country.

    An aging society

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