A senior resident at the Heiyoushan nursing home on June 30. [Photo by Xu Wei /China Daily] |
The country has a total of 2.53 million people who are aged 60 or above as of June 2014, according to the regional authority for elderly people's affairs. However, the region only had 544 nursing homes or aged care centers by the end of 2013, with a total of 40869 hospital beds, according to the elderly people's affairs authority.