Friends who pay attention to the news know that just according to the data recently released by the National Bureau of Statistics, the increase in the mainland population in 2021 is 480,000 people, and the natural population growth rate is 0.34%, of which the population aged 60 or above is 267.36 million, accounting for 18.9% of the national population, the population aged 65 and above is 200.56 million, accounting for 14.2% of the national population, and the rural permanent population has decreased by 11.57 million, but there are still 498.35 million people.
Judging from this data, there is no doubt that the future continent is an extremely aging country. According to the data of the seventh census, the total population of the mainland is 1443497378 people, in recent years, the release of the second child after the release of the third child, and then a variety of encouragement to have children, from a base of more than 1.4 billion people, the annual increase of 480,000 people is almost negligible, perhaps in 2022 the population may have negative growth.
For the city, due to the perfect infrastructure, complete supporting services, although the aging is serious, but after all, the strength is strong, the service can keep up, but for the countryside, it is difficult, the above mentioned in 2021 rural population in 11.57 million rural population loss, in this more than ten million people, do not know how many are the elderly, to the habits of rural people, this more than ten million people, it is estimated that there are mostly young people.
If the people who leave the countryside are mostly young people, then the burden of old-age care in the countryside will be heavier in the future, because now there are a large number of "hollow villages" and "no man's villages" in the countryside, and it is calculated that there are barely a few villages with a population, mainly the elderly and children, when the children grow up, they will also enter the countryside with their parents, and the decline in fertility will lead to a large reduction in rural children, and finally there will be a large number of elderly people left in the countryside.
We all know that the pension of the elderly in rural areas is not high, in fact, even if there is a pension, if there is no young people to take care of, the future is also a very worthy of consideration, so now how to provide for the elderly in rural areas, it can be said that it has become a social problem.
In fact, many friends may not have noticed that now some industries similar to the time bank services have quietly appeared, according to media reports, in recent days in the construction of the rural pension service system, "time bank" has been mentioned again, and is considered by some people to be one of the ways to solve the rural pension.
What is Time Bank?
In fact, the "time bank" is not a new concept, its advocate is an American named Kahn, proposed in 1980, simply put, volunteers deposit their time into the "time bank", when they need to "take" out to use, get "service time".
Obviously, when this system is large enough, it can be spread throughout any corner of any person, then even the countryside can be affected, which is really helpful for alleviating the problem of rural pensions, for example, children outside can be deposited through the time bank, when the parents at home need to be taken care of, they can withdraw from the time bank to let rural volunteers serve their families, I have to say that this is indeed a good idea, and perhaps a trend in the future.
In fact, in life we have seen a lot of such prototypes, more common is the driver's license deduction, Xiaobian once paid attention to the elimination of our local driver's license deduction rules, in addition to learning to subtract points and waiting for the deduction, you can also reduce points by volunteering, such as I was deducted three points, as long as I do a certain long volunteer according to the requirements, then our points can be eliminated, and the volunteer service here, although there is room for selection, but it is all designated, if these services are replaced by visiting the elderly , so long and time bank similar.
Paid services will become inevitable
According to the number of elderly people in the countryside today, many young people who are resident in a village now do not have one in the village, just like in our village, there is only one slightly younger person, that is, the village doctor in the village clinic, followed by the people of the village committee, and the others are all old people and children, such a existence, it should be said that the mainland has been very common, and such a village, the demand for young people in the village is also increasing, if it is not paid services, a few young people can not take care of it at all.
Now this generation of old people is more embarrassing, many old people are still the older group of people, for them the golden nest and silver nest is not as good as the old nest at home, even if the children are mixed up outside, the home is still their ultimate destination, so even if some rural elderly children have cars and houses in the city, they also have the ability to take care of them, they still can't put down the countryside.
Young people who enter the city can't always go home to see the old man at two ends of the three days, but they want to know the specific situation at all times. For the rural elderly, because the past living conditions are not good, many are very economical, the general physical problems if not very serious will be hidden, now with the village doctor and medical insurance has been a lot better, but the most direct and effective way, or someone to help take care of it.
Such a demand in the countryside is very large, but the time required is not very much, so a village may be able to move down individually, generally small problems to help solve, big problems young people go home to solve, and indeed let the young people outside rest assured.
In fact, whether it is the use of time banks or paid services, are inseparable from young people, and the countryside is left with a group of elderly people, the individual young people left behind naturally have more opportunities, the market is large, the opportunity is large, the income will naturally be high, so the future rural pension services, young people left in the countryside will usher in opportunities, maybe higher than the average person's income in the city, for this problem, how do you think? Feel free to share your thoughts.