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Aging in Comparative PerspectiveAging in China

Aging in Comparative Perspective: Aging in China [As we have noted in the Introduction, China has come rather late to the global aging table, not featuring until relatively recently in terms of percentage population aging. However, and as befits the world’s largest country in terms of population, the absolute number of older people in China is higher than for other countries. Further, the speed of aging in China has been rapid, especially since the founding of the People’s Republic of China in 1949. China is moving quickly to become the world’s second largest economy, within a system of ‘socialism with Chinese characteristics’, unique across the globe, which combines a strong developmental State run via the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) with capitalist methods of economic progress. Economic growth rates in recent decades have regularly been of the order of 8–10%, and the society has also highly urbanised. Aging has been an important feature of China’s contemporary population change, but the speed of change—social, economic and demographic—has brought many pressures and raises many issues for China itself and the world more generally.] http://www.deepdyve.com/assets/images/DeepDyve-Logo-lg.png

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Publisher
Springer US
Copyright
© Springer Science+Business Media, LLC 2012
ISBN
978-1-4614-1977-8
Pages
47 –58
DOI
10.1007/978-1-4614-1978-5_6
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Abstract

[As we have noted in the Introduction, China has come rather late to the global aging table, not featuring until relatively recently in terms of percentage population aging. However, and as befits the world’s largest country in terms of population, the absolute number of older people in China is higher than for other countries. Further, the speed of aging in China has been rapid, especially since the founding of the People’s Republic of China in 1949. China is moving quickly to become the world’s second largest economy, within a system of ‘socialism with Chinese characteristics’, unique across the globe, which combines a strong developmental State run via the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) with capitalist methods of economic progress. Economic growth rates in recent decades have regularly been of the order of 8–10%, and the society has also highly urbanised. Aging has been an important feature of China’s contemporary population change, but the speed of change—social, economic and demographic—has brought many pressures and raises many issues for China itself and the world more generally.]

Published: Oct 17, 2011

Keywords: Chinese Communist Party; Filial Piety; Open Door Policy; Grandchild Care; Fitness Exercise

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