{"id":2106,"date":"2012-01-08T10:13:30","date_gmt":"2012-01-08T15:13:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/?p=2106"},"modified":"2012-01-08T10:13:31","modified_gmt":"2012-01-08T15:13:31","slug":"china-no-country-for-old-men","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/2012\/china-no-country-for-old-men\/","title":{"rendered":"China: No Country for Old Men?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: center\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/01\/010812_1513_ChinaNoCoun1.png\" alt=\"\"\/>\n\t<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.bloomberg.com\/news\/2012-01-04\/china-no-country-for-old-men-as-demographic-tsunami-begins.html\">Bloomberg<\/a> recently reported on the ageing problem in China noting that:\n<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>The latest government census shows 178 million people over 60. By 2050 the UN forecasts that up to 437 million will be \u2013 a third of China&#8217;s population.\n<\/li>\n<li>This is a challenge that Japan also had to face in the 1990s. The difference is that Japan had the opportunity to deal with it after it got rich. On a per capita basis the Chinese are still relatively poor.\n<\/li>\n<li>The government still expects families to provide for the old but after decades of a One Child policy this is becoming increasingly difficult for them to do.\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>To read more about the contrasts between some of the facilities available for the elderly as well as the experiences of individual senior citizens in China <a href=\"http:\/\/www.bloomberg.com\/news\/2012-01-04\/china-no-country-for-old-men-as-demographic-tsunami-begins.html\">click here<\/a>.\n<\/p>\n<p>Source: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.bloomberg.com\/news\/2012-01-04\/china-no-country-for-old-men-as-demographic-tsunami-begins.html\">Bloomberg<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Bloomberg recently reported on the ageing problem in China noting that: The latest government census shows 178 million people over 60. By 2050 the UN forecasts that up to 437 million will be \u2013 a third of China&#8217;s population. This is a challenge that Japan also had to face in the 1990s. The difference is [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2105,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2106","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-daily-bulletin"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/01\/010812_1513_ChinaNoCoun1.png","_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2106","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2106"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2106\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2129,"href":"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2106\/revisions\/2129"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2105"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2106"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2106"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2106"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}