The gradual increase of China's aging has brought some remarkable features to China.
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2024-11-18 14:24
The gradual increase of China's aging has brought some remarkable features to China.
One: “Fracture” may occur during rapid aging. Western countries have been using aging society for hundreds of years, but China has only used it for decades. China's population over 60 years old now accounts for 16.7% of the total population, and the population over 65 years old accounts for 10.8%. It is currently the country with the most elderly population in the world. However, most of the elderly people live in rural areas and do not enter the city. As most of the young labor force gathers in the cities, the location breaks and the generation gap between the children and the parents, and the city and The break between modernity and tradition between the villages.
Second: Another feature is the problem of the reduction of the labor force brought about by the aging society and the declining society. There are more elderly people in China, but the younger labor force is getting less and less. Even if the “comprehensive two-child” policy is implemented at the end of 2015, it seems that the effect received is not very satisfactory. The aging and the minority are coexisting. It will continue to affect us. In the future, China's labor force will continue to decrease. This situation will gradually disintegrate the traditional "Made in China" labor base. Under such circumstances, China needs to complete the economic transformation as soon as possible and upgrade its technical level. Otherwise, it will be difficult to improve its competitiveness in the future.
Three: China is currently shifting from a blood-social society to an in-law society. Now China's pension is mainly based on the mutual support between the elderly couple, not the children. In the past, the elderly in China generally followed a certain son to spend their old age, and also supported such arrangements in the filial piety culture of China. But now most of the children are working in the city, leaving only their parents in their hometown, and the elderly couples have to take care of themselves.
Four: Politics in traditional society is the politics of the elderly, which has been dissolved in modern society. But now the politics of the elderly seems to have returned to our lives. Old people exercise together, travel, dance square dances, etc., and the elderly are easier to organize. Old people are not just concerned about social security issues. As they grow older, they have their own unique views on the country and the future, and they also have plenty of time to care about politics.
V: The characteristics of coexistence of empty nests and youth empty nests in old age. Because the number of children has decreased, parents have entered the empty nest period when they are in their 40s and 50s. Many people are paying attention to the impact of empty nesters on the society. But today many young people start to marry or not get married, so they also form a young empty-nest family, which has led to the problem of coexistence of empty nests and youth empty nests. This is a phenomenon that Chinese traditional society has never encountered. In the process of empty nesting in the elderly, there are more and more elderly widows, more and more female empty nests, and the problem of remarriage of the elderly is also highlighted.
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