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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