What are the characteristics of China's aging society that are different from those of other countries?

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2024-11-18 14:24

  Aging is a phenomenon all over the world, but different countries and regions have different characteristics due to their own reasons. China's unique national conditions have led to the emergence of characteristics different from other countries in its aging process.

  One: China may break during the rapid aging process. China's aging is very rapid, and foreign countries may take hundreds of years, while China has only used it for decades. In 2016, China's population over 60 years exceeded 16.7%, and the population over 65 years old exceeded 10.8%. It is the country with the largest number of elderly people in the world. In the rapid process of China's aging, there is also a magnificent urbanization movement. Many elderly people have difficulty entering urban life and have given this era a strong break. This type of fracture is characterized by two-layer fractures: one is the locational break and the generational break between the child and the parent, and the other is the modern and traditional break between the city and the village. To this end, we must strengthen research on social mobility and household registration system reform, with a view to finding some solutions.

  Second: China's aging is accelerating, but China's labor force is decreasing. Due to the implementation of the “family planning” policy, China’s aging and declining children are coexisting, and it is also a double-aging society triggered by policy aging and social and economic development. Although the country implemented the policy of “opening the second child” in 2015, the situation of aging and declining preservation will still affect us for a long time, and the population of China's labor force will continue to decline.

  Three: China's old-age care from the blood relatives and society wants to change the in-law society. In the past, Chinese pensioners were basically children to take care of their elderly parents. But nowadays, especially in the cities, older couples help each other, because most of the children go to work in cities and cannot care for the elderly. This transformation has a deeper impact on the aging society to gradually deepen the most basic social structure in the process.

  Four: China's old age politics in an aging society. In traditional society, politics is coming to politics, and in modern times, this situation has been resolved. But as we enter the ageing society, the politics of the elderly return to our lives. Old people in China like to exercise collectively, dance square dances, travel, etc., which makes it easier for the elderly to organize. Many people think that the elderly are only concerned about social security, but the political participation of the elderly may be higher than that of young people because they have time and their own ideas. They strengthen their politics and future destiny in the process of getting older. The sense of care gradually produced political awareness related to the power of the elderly and formed their political expression.

  Five: old empty nests and young empty nests. When we pay attention to the empty nest of the elderly, in fact, the empty nest of young people is gradually increasing. Nowadays, young people are basically married or not married. This has led to the emergence of empty nests for young people and empty nests for young people. phenomenon. In the process of empty nests in the elderly, there are more and more elderly widows, and there are more and more empty nests for women, and the problem of remarriage of the elderly is highlighted.

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