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10/24/2016

Topic Reading-Vol.1657-10/24/2016

Dear MEL Topic Readers,
500,000 elderly people go missing in China every year
As many as 1,300 senior citizens go missing every day in China. Most of them have some sort of brain or memory impairment and a quarter of them go missing again. Even though the country is geographically and demographically huge, those numbers are still worrisome.
In fact, there are already 114 million seniors whose ages are over 65 in China, nearly the population of Japan. And that number is growing rapidly. It is a hangover from the decades long one child policy. And as reported in the Topic Reading Vol.1653, China’s pairs don’t seem to be planning another child so soon, which means the population is rapidly aging in the most populous country.
In order to cope with this aging problem, the government issued a law that requires the children of elders to take care of or at least pay a visit their parents regularly. But there are still many elders in rural areas whose children live and work away from their hometowns and are unable to look after them.
Enjoy reading and learning this deep-rooted social and demographic problem in China.

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