The 16th Northeast Asian Seminar on Aged People opened Tuesday in
this capital city of coastal
Zhejiang Province, in east China.
More than 100 delegates from China, Japan
and the Republic of Korea (ROK)
will participate in the three-day event to address priority issues
of health care for old people.
Major topics of the seminar will cover the health status of aged
people and measures to improve their living conditions and health
standards.
It
has been an urgent task for Chinese government to put people's
aging process on a healthy development track since the country has
entered the stage of being an aging society, with 10 percent of its
population over the age of 60, experts remarked.
It
is expected that the seminar, which is being jointly hosted by the
China Association for the Aged and one Japanese and one Korean
institution, will play a positive role in promoting research and
practice in the area of solving aging issues in Asia and the world
as a whole.
( 09/26/2001)