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2016 Tsinghua Aging Industry Forum kicks off in Beijing on June14.[Photo provided to chinadaily.com.cn]
The 2016 Tsinghua Aging Industry Forum, with a theme of “Meeting the 13th Five-Year Plan Period and Starting a New Journey”, convened at Tsinghua University on June 14. The two-day forum has gathered thousands of guests from China, the United States, Britain, Japan and Singapore to discuss development plans for China’s senior care industry in this, the first year of the 13th Five-Year Plan Period.
2016 Tsinghua Aging Industry Forum kicks off in Beijing on June14.[Photo provided to chinadaily.com.cn]
China became an aged society before 2000, and will enter an advanced stage of aging before 2025. By 2040, China's aging population ratio will have deepened dramatically. The problem has aroused social attention in China, one of the world's fastest-aging societies.
2016 is the first year of the 13th Five-Year Plan Period and also a critical time for China’s senior care industry. At the forum, experts and scholars delivered several important speeches on the direction of the industry’s development.
Guests from government, educational circles and business shared ideas on the challenges and direction of China’s senior care industry and explored related opportunities from all angles including the construction of community endowments, financial instruments for pensions, service systems for the aged and public governance.
At the forum, seven organizations, including Tsinghua University’s School of Architecture, School of Social Sciences, and School of Public Policy & Management, and its Institute for Hospital Management and THUPDI, have called for the industry to build a platform to promote the sound development of China’s senior care.
The forum is hosted by the university’s School of Social Sciences and School of Public Policy & Management and supported by THUPDI.
