Elderly services to address aging population

Development plan aims to improve pension and healthcare systems

China's targets for elderly care services in the nation's top development plan show how determined the government is to tackle the challenges of an aging population, according to officials.

Zhu Yaoyin, deputy director of the general office of the National Working Commission on Aging, said the incorporation of improving elderly care services in the nation's development road map is part of the top leadership's key measures for addressing an aging population.