BEIJING, SEPT 22: About 49.7 per
cent of rural Chinese senior citizens live apart from their children as their
wards move to cities to become migrant workers leaving their parents in
villages, an official has said.
Yan Qingchun, deputy director of
the National Committee on Ageing, said that as more and more farmers go to
cities and become migrant workers, the proportion of these “empty-nest”
families in rural areas has reached 38.3 per cent, and is growing more rapidly
than that of urban areas. Yan’s address to the symposium proposed that the
seniors attend old folks’ homes in places other than their hometown, saying
that this new type care can alleviate the loneliness of “empty-nest”
situations, state-run Xinhua news agency reported.
During its Twelfth Five-Year Plan
(2011-2015), China is working to strengthen institutions for the aged in a bid
to reach a target of having 30 beds in such facilities for every 1,000 senior
citizens.
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