Modern Express News (Reporter Xu Suning) Jiangsu is a large economic province and a large population province. By the end of 2023, there will be 20.43 million registered elderly people aged 60 and above in the province, accounting for 26.09% of the total registered population. As one of the provinces that entered the aging society earlier and has a high degree of aging, how can Jiangsu solve the problems of the elderly and realize the "suitable pension"? On April 26, the "Blue Book of Aging Civilization (2023)" (hereinafter referred to as the "Blue Book") was officially released in Wuxi, giving the answer.
△ The scene of the press conference
This year is the second time that the Think Tank on Aging Civilization has compiled and released the Blue Book. The book has a total of 400,000 words, and is composed of "Frontiers of Aging Civilization Theory", "Investigation and Research of Aging Civilization", and "International Research on Aging Civilization". The Blue Book brings together the latest achievements in aging research at home and abroad, covering many cutting-edge topics in the field of elderly care, such as aging and social civilization, aging well-being and national strategy, quality of life and aging health care, ageing and social progress, aging industry and smart pension, aging learning and aging participation.
Professor Fan Heping, vice president of the Jiangsu Provincial Aging Development Research Association, director of the Academic Committee of the Aging Civilization Think Tank, Changjiang Scholar, director of the Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences of Southeast University, and senior professor, pointed out in his speech that the development of AI technology has formed a trend to provide the world with a full range of human replacements. On the contrary, the essence of Chinese-style pension and "Su Shi pension" lies in meeting the expectations of the elderly for "never leaving home".
△ Fan Heping delivered a speech
The Blue Book summarizes many experiences in Jiangsu, including the formation of a "trinity" of elderly care services for the elderly, including the formation of a "trinity" of elderly care services in place, community elderly care, and institutional elderly care. For example, Jiangsu promotes family care beds, and 20,000 family care beds have been built in the province. It also actively promotes the construction of a "15-minute elderly care service circle" in the community, plays an important role in the community in supporting family elderly care, strives to solve the problem of "a hot meal" for the elderly, meets the "nearby service" of the elderly, provides "effective care" for the elderly, and makes elderly care services within reach.
△ Lin Mingang delivered a speech
Professor Lin Mingang, vice president of the Jiangsu Provincial Research Association for the Development of Aging Undertakings, chief expert of the Aging Civilization Think Tank, Changjiang Scholar Distinguished Professor of the Ministry of Education, and director of the Social Security Research Center of Nanjing University, introduced the relevant situation of the Blue Book on behalf of the Aging Civilization Think Tank. He believes that this book has two major features: first, it focuses on the aging civilization from an international perspective and promotes the aging civilization from a concept to a consensus. Second, we should promote the research on the national strategy for actively responding to the aging of the population, as well as related system construction, policy measures, etc., based on the consensus of aging civilization.
△ Xu Hai delivered a speech
As the publisher of the Blue Book for two consecutive years, Xu Hai, editor-in-chief of Jiangsu Phoenix Publishing and Media Group, said that compared with the 2022 Blue Book, the 2023 Blue Book has distinctive characteristics: it further enriches the connotation of aging civilization in terms of theory, greatly increases the proportion of content in the survey and research part, and makes the representative achievements of the construction of an international aging society a "mirror" to reflect the particularity of China's aging population.
Since its establishment two years ago, the Jiangsu Provincial Research Association for the Development of Aging and the Think Tank for Aging Civilization have closely focused on Jiangsu's national strategy of actively integrating into and serving the active response to population aging, explored the way, made suggestions and suggestions for actively responding to population aging through high-quality research results, provided intellectual support and practical guidance for the development of the aging cause in Jiangsu and even China, and contributed Chinese wisdom and Chinese solutions to global aging governance.
△ Roundtable
Set the thoughts of theories and gather everyone's words. At the press conference, the live version of the "Old Friends Roundtable" brought a feast of ideas to the audience. Lin Mingang and Zuo Xuejin, former executive vice president of the Shanghai Academy of Social Sciences and former vice president of the Chinese Population Society; Zhu Min, vice chairman of the Aging Civilization Think Tank, deputy director of the Provincial Health Commission, and director of the Provincial Administration of Traditional Chinese Medicine; Gong Yucai, chairman of Jiangsu Yunlin Pension Development Group Co., Ltd.; Li Jing, professor and doctoral supervisor of the School of Government and Management of Yunnan University, and young and middle-aged academic leader of the "Blue Project" in Jiangsu Province, jointly focused on the topic of "aging, how to become civilized", from sociology, demography, Multi-dimensional analysis and in-depth interpretation in the field of health, and jointly explore the system, policy and practice of aging civilization in the next step.
△ Book giveaway
At the end of the event, a book donation ceremony was held, and five university libraries, including Nanjing Library, Wuxi City Library, Wuxi Liangxi District Library, Xishan District Library and Nanjing University, received blue books. (Photo source: Photo by Huang Lei)