The reporter learned from the second China Population and Development Forum held on the 16th that as of 2020, the national dependency ratio of the elderly population is 19.7%, an increase of 7.8% from 2010.
The dependency ratio of the elderly population is used to indicate how many elderly people must be supported by every 100 working-age population.
As of 2020, there will be 264.02 million people aged 60 and over in the country, accounting for 18.7% of the total population; 35.8 million people aged 80 and over, accounting for 13.56%.
The level of aging in rural areas is significantly higher than that in urban areas. The rural population aged 60 and over accounted for 23.8% of the total rural population, which was 7.99% higher than that of the urban population aged 60 and over.
Wang Jianjun, member of the Party Group of the National Health Commission and Executive Deputy Director of the National Office on Aging
: 12 provinces and municipalities have entered moderate aging, 149 cities have entered moderate aging, and regional development is still unbalanced.
Shanghai and Tibet, which were the first to enter the aging population, were 40 years away, and a Chinese characteristic approach to responding to population aging is to integrate the concept of actively responding to population aging and healthy aging into the whole process of social and economic development.
According to the relevant person in charge of the National Office on Aging, during the "14th Five-Year Plan" period, China will build an old-age care service system that is coordinated with home community institutions and combines medical care and health care, and the proportion of nursing beds will increase to 55%.
Establish and improve the long-term care insurance system to reduce the financial burden of disabled and semi-disabled elderly families.
Improve the multi-level old-age insurance system and increase the participation rate of basic medical insurance to 95%.
(CCTV reporter Long Xiaoqin Cao Wenyu)