Ningbo speeding up construction of aged welfare facilities
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- Category: Ningbo News
- Published: Tuesday, 01 April 2014 13:18
According to statistics of Ningbo Municipal Office of the Affairs of the Aged People, by the end of 2013, Ningbo had 1,187,000 residents aged above 70, covering 20.5 % of the total population, and Ningbo is now a moderate ageing society. It is estimated that by 2020, the aged population will reach 1.6 million, covering about one fourth of the total. This is a challenge for Ningbo Municipal Party Committee and Ningbo Municipal Government. The Three-year Action Plan for Economic and Social Development of Ningbo points out that Ningbo should make great efforts to carry out the projects of the livelihood of the people, accelerate the development of social undertakings, speed up the construction of a number of aged welfare facilities, and by 2015, the city should have at least 40 beds for the aged per 1,000 aged people. The expansion project of Ningbo Social Welfare House is listed in the Three-year Action Plan for Economic and Social Development of Ningbo.
Facing the reality that Ningbo is now a moderate ageing society, as early as in 2012, Ningbo started the action. ON September 2012, Ningbo Municipal Party Committee and Ningbo Municipal Government held a meeting on the promotion of the ageing service facilities. At the meeting, the general targets and requirements for the services for the aged were specified. In order to mobilize social factors to join in the construction of the ageing service facilities, Ningbo released "Opinions on Improving Social Old Age Service System", the Three-year Action Plan for Social Ageing Service Facilities of Ningbo and Special Plan for the Layout of Ageing Service Facilities 2012-2020. The Three-year Action Plan specifies the guidelines, fundamental principles, targets and requirements, and favorable policies in land uses, financing, talent training and tax
exemption and so on.
The short-term target specified in the Plan is: by 2015, the city should have at least 2 aged welfare houses that have over 1,000 beds each, that a county or a city of Ningbo City should have at least one aged welfare house that have over 500 beds, and that a neighborhood community, or a town should have at least one aged welfare house that has over 100 beds.
