Tag: Aging

Graying Shanghai Encourages Couples To Have 2 Kids

From AP: Family planning officials in Shanghai are making home visits and slipping leaflets under doorways to encourage certain residents to have a second child in a bid to balance the city’s expanding senior population. A statement about the new campaign posted Thursday on the Web site of the Shanghai Population and Family Planning Commission was quick to emphasize that it didn’t signa

July 23, 2009 7:38 PM

Demography: China’s Achilles Heel

A pair of articles in the current issue of The Economist examines China’s demographic Achilles heel, which “w

April 24, 2012 7:30 PM

The Sick Man of Asia

While China’s economic growth and rapid modernization has left the world in a state of wonder, Huang Yanzhong, a pr

November 2, 2011 11:09 AM

The East is Greying

The New York Times’ ‘The New Old Age’ blog notes the proliferation of residential facilities for the el

July 29, 2011 5:48 PM

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