China News Service, Hangzhou, September 5 (Reporter Shi Zinan) Charity and filial piety are not only the outstanding traditional culture of the Chinese nation, but also a concrete manifestation of the cohesion and affinity of the Chinese nation.
On the 5th, the main activity of the 6th Chinese Charity and Filial Piety Culture Festival-the 2020 6th Chinese Charity and Filial Piety Culture Forum was held in Hangzhou, Zhejiang.
The theme of the forum is "Benevolence and elderly care in the post-epidemic era", focusing on "the integration of elderly care in the Yangtze River Delta" to discuss how to actively, scientifically and effectively achieve "the elderly have support, support, enjoyment, and happiness". Have peace" to further promote and inherit the Chinese culture of kindness and filial piety.
At the forum, Liang Chunxiao, director of the Pangu Think Tank Aging Society Research Center, director of the China Red Cross Foundation, and academic committee member of Alibaba Business School, gave a keynote speech on "Aging Society Transformation, Culture and Life Care".
Photo by Wang Gang at the 6th China Cultural Forum on Charity and Filial Piety in 2020
In Liang Chunxiao's view, for more than 40 years, the key factors affecting social development have expanded from systems and technology to "people."
"China's aging may be stronger than any other country in the world. We call it'super aging': super large scale, super fast speed, super early stage, super stable structure." Liang Chunxiao said bluntly in his speech , China will be at a very high level of aging until the end of the 21st century.
What Liang Chunxiao said is true.
At present, it is an indisputable fact that China's population is becoming more and more aging.
According to a report released by the China Development Foundation in 2020, China’s population over the age of 65 will account for 14% of the total population by around 2022, and it will enter an aging society from an aging society.
According to the report, if 60 years of age and above are used as the criteria for delimiting the elderly population, there will be nearly 500 million elderly people in China by 2050.
"At present, we are facing a major transformation from a young society to an aging society driven by the'super-aging'." In Liang Chunxiao's view, the transformation of an aging society is the inevitable result of modernity and modernization.
The aging itself is not the problem, the problem is not adapting.
"The whole society has continued for thousands of years of living habits and social forms, and they are all adapted to the young society. How to solve the incompatibility of people's livelihood, economy, society, culture, psychology and other aspects with aging is ours The most significant challenge we face." Liang Chunxiao said.
According to Liang Chunxiao, the transformation of an aging society has the same meaning as the transformation from an industrial society to an information society.
The current Chinese society is facing the overall social, economic, political, and cultural challenges of aging and the aging society. If the transformation of the entire society cannot be viewed from an overall perspective, it will not be possible to solve the problem of elderly care for the elderly.
"Aging and an aging society are the basic conditions for future development, as well as the basic background for cultural construction and life care." Liang Chunxiao said that in view of China's future pension problems, religious pensions, especially Buddhist pensions, are an option that cannot be ignored.
Liang Chunxiao said that Buddhist nursing homes go beyond blood-related families to provide a spiritual life order that other nursing homes lack, as well as another way to examine the ethics of the elderly.
It is reported that the 6th China Charity and Filial Piety Cultural Festival in 2020 is hosted by Hangzhou Lingyin Temple, China News Service Zhejiang Branch and Zhejiang Returned Overseas Chinese Association, supported by China News Weekly, China Philanthropist Magazine, Hangzhou Yunlin Charity Foundation.
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