Original title: around 2050, China's elderly population will exceed 1 / 3 of the total population
Around 2035, the proportion of China's elderly population in the total population will exceed 1 / 4, and around 50, it will exceed 1 / 3.
The office of the National Working Committee on aging and the China Aging Association published the above data.
It has been 20 years since China entered an aging society in 1999. The Research Report on consumption and Demand Willingness of the elderly from the perspective of demand side released by China Aging Association in the first half of this year shows that in the 19 years from 1999 to 2018, China's elderly population has increased by 118 million, becoming the only country in the world with an elderly population of more than 200 million.
China's aging cause in striving points out that China is one of the countries with a high degree of population aging in the world, with the largest number of elderly population, the fastest aging speed and the heaviest task to deal with population aging. Since entering the aging society, China's elderly population has shown a rapid growth trend. The proportion of the population aged 60 and above in the total population has increased from 1 / 10 at the end of 1999 to more than 1 / 6 at the end of 2018.
"China's aging cause in progress" said that China has actively responded to population aging and established "one strategy": actively responding to population aging is identified as a long-term strategic task of the country.
'two concerns': it has an effect on the aging of the population, the overall situation of national development and the well-being of hundreds of millions of people.
"Three Combinations": adhere to the combination of Party committee leadership, government leadership, social participation and comprehensive action; Adhere to the combination of coping with population aging and promoting economic and social development; Adhere to the combination of meeting the needs of the elderly and solving the problem of population aging.
'four changes': adapt to the requirements of the times, innovate ideas and promote the transformation of aging work to active response; Change to overall planning and coordination; To strengthen people's life-cycle pension preparation; To pay attention to the material and cultural needs of the elderly and comprehensively improve the quality of life of the elderly.
'five efforts': strive to enhance the whole society's ideas of actively coping with population aging; Strive to improve the aging policy system; Focus on the development of elderly care service industry and elderly industry; Give full play to the positive role of the elderly; Efforts will be made to improve the working system and mechanism for the elderly.
At present, China has basically completed the system of laws and policies on aging, continuously improved the social security system for the elderly, achieved remarkable results in the construction of the elderly care service system, and accelerated the development of the elderly health service system. China is promoting the comprehensive, coordinated and sustainable development of the cause of aging.
According to the data released by China's National Bureau of statistics in January this year, by the end of 2018, China's population aged 60 and over had exceeded 249 million, accounting for 17.9% of the total population, an increase of 8.59 million or 0.6% over the previous year.