(By Pan Gaofeng, Jiang Yuezhong and Xu Yiru. Xinmin Wanbao (新民晚报, Xinmin Evening News), Jan. 15, 2012, p. A02. Complete text:) The statistics that advisers quoted during this year’s National People’s Congress and Chinese People’s Political Consultative Conference are unsettling.
Sixteen percent – more than 2 million people – of [Shanghai’s] registered population is over the age of 65, while 18.1% of the elderly population – 600,000 people – is over the age of 80. Continue reading