On December 28, Shenzhen Happiness and Health Group and Hong Kong Renaitang Co., Ltd. held a signing ceremony for a strategic cooperation framework agreement. The two sides plan to carry out in-depth cooperation in the fields of elderly care talent training, cross-border elderly care services and gerontechnology product promotion, so as to inject new vitality into the "Greater Bay Area Elderly Care" in Guangdong, Hong Kong and Macao. The signing ceremony was attended by the Acting Secretary for Labour and Welfare, Mr Ho Kai-ming, the Director of the Elderly Care Service and Child Welfare Division of the Civil Affairs Bureau of Shenzhen Municipality, Mr. Karen Tai, the Chairman of the 44th Board of Directors of Yan Oi Tong, Mr. Zhao Wenjian, the Chief Executive Officer, Mr. Hu Yueming, Deputy Secretary of the Party Committee and General Manager of Shenzhen Happiness and Health Group, Mr. Ma Meiling, Deputy Secretary of the Party Committee, and Mr. Ni Chidan, Deputy General Manager.
The elderly population in the Guangdong-Hong Kong-Macao Greater Bay Area is growing rapidly. According to relevant information, by the end of 2021, the total elderly population in Guangdong Province, Hong Kong and Macao had exceeded 12 million. With the increasing prominence of the aging problem, there is an urgent need for high-quality elderly care services in the "Greater Bay Area Elderly Care". Due to the limited land resources in Hong Kong, the shortage of nursing homes will continue to widen, and the social pension resources will become more and more strained. Comparatively speaking, the cities in the Greater Bay Area have more abundant land space and better resources of caregivers, and it has become an inevitable trend for the elderly in Hong Kong to retire in the Greater Bay Area in the future.
Jennifer Tai, the leader of Yan Oi Tong, said that as an influential charity in Hong Kong, Yan Oi Tong has always been committed to providing diversified services to Hong Kong people, especially in the field of elderly care and talent training. As the first charity group to cooperate with Shenzhen, Yan Oi Tong hopes to play an exemplary role and cooperate with Shenzhen Happiness and Health Group to promote the development of the elderly care industry in Shenzhen and Hong Kong.
Hu Yueming, General Manager of Shenzhen Happiness & Health Group, said that Shum Yip Group, as the economic and trade representative office of the Shenzhen Municipal Government in Hong Kong, has become one of the bridges between the political and business circles of Shenzhen and Hong Kong, and has also laid a solid foundation for Shenzhen Happiness & Health Group to carry out cooperation with Hong Kong in the field of people's livelihood. Shenzhen Happiness and Health Group will take the signing of the strategic cooperation framework agreement as an opportunity to rely on its industrial foundation and policy advantages to carry out in-depth cooperation with Renaitang in the training of elderly care talents, cross-border elderly care services and the promotion of gerontechnology products, so as to jointly explore a new model of integrated development of the elderly care industry in the Guangdong-Hong Kong-Macao Greater Bay Area.
Southern + reporter Dai Xiaoxiao
【Author】 Dai Xiaoxiao
[Source] Southern Press Media Group Southern + client