With the advent of the aging society, there is a decrease in the number of newborns, the topic of the elderly, but also began to gradually increase, and as the main force of the domestic elderly, the elderly in rural areas naturally become the object of attention, but what is the current situation of the elderly today?
What kind of dilemma are the rural areas experiencing under the tide of urbanization? Perhaps those stories hidden in the shadows are the most worthy of all of us to think and ponder, and it is also worth all of us to pay attention to, and the pension plight of the elderly in rural areas may be much more shocking than we imagine.
<h1 class="pgc-h-arrow-right" data-track="4" > rural areas under urbanization are becoming more and more hollow, and the aging is gradually deepening. </h1>
It can be said that in recent years, the development of urbanization is in full swing, whether it is the siphon effect of the Pearl River Delta, or the coastal scale effect of the Yangtze River Delta, or the grand event in the interior is bigger and stronger, it can be said that large cities and coastal cities, because of their own superior geographical advantages or some policy support, have caught up with the spring breeze.
It can be said that the advent of the era of urbanization has further increased the difference between urban and rural areas, and because of its superior geographical location, there are countless young people and the integration of fresh blood, and the development can be said to be changing with each passing day, whether it is education, medical care, or various infrastructure, rural areas are incomparable.
Coupled with today's universal higher education, but also let the process of urbanization further accelerated, many rural students admitted to college or into the city, basically rarely come back, basically stay outside for a long time, will want to settle in the city, even if some non-college students, from the countryside to go out to work, then work outside for a long time.
In the city, the easiest way to get on the bus is undoubtedly to buy a house in the city you like, so that you can enjoy the dividends brought by the urbanization development of the city, and at the same time, you can let your children enjoy a variety of high-quality resources in the urbanization environment.
Corresponding to this situation, there are fewer and fewer people in rural areas, so that in addition to various holidays, or some large long holidays, such as May Day, Eleventh and Spring Festival, many rural areas are only left with some elderly people and left-behind children, and the parents of left-behind children are basically working hard in the city.
Once they have saved enough capital to stay in the city, and at the same time are accustomed to the prosperity of the big city and the high-quality resources, they will also find a way to bring their children to the city as much as possible, after all, the better cities, education, medical care and transportation, and the convenient living conditions are incomparable to the countryside.
Many native farmers themselves, especially parents who have not received much culture in the previous generation, have long been accustomed to the rural environment, and the cultural level is not high, because they cannot keep up with the times, so they can only be forced to stay in the countryside in the end.
The data shows that at the end of 2018 alone, China's population aged 60 and above was 249.49 million, accounting for 17.9%, of which 166.58 million were 65 years old and above, accounting for 11.9%. The proportion of people aged 60 and over increased by 8.59 million, an increase of 0.6 percentage points, while the population aged 65 and over increased by 8.27 million.
In the future, China's elderly population will further increase, and it is predicted that in 2030, 2040 and 2050, the number of elderly people aged 60 and above in China will reach 371 million, 437 million and 483 million respectively, and the number of elderly people aged 80 and above will reach 0.29 billion, 0.43 billion, 0.67 billion and 108 million respectively.
<h1 class="pgc-h-arrow-right" data-track="37" behind > the massive number of empty nesters, there is a huge pension gap and pressure</h1>
In recent years, with the gradual reduction of the number of newborns, the topic of aging has become a hot topic of discussion again and again, the reason is very simple, pension is really tight, as the parents of the previous generation, at that time, there was no implementation of family planning, at that time, pay attention to more children and more blessings, so a family of five or six children, is the norm.
In order to control the rapid growth of the population and the huge pressure on social resources, from 1982, the implementation of family planning, a family can only have one child, some special families have up to two children.
Family planning has been implemented for nearly 40 years, until the full implementation of the second child in 2016, the history of family planning was completely ended, and the generation that was once the era of family planning has now entered the old age, and it is generally over 60 years old to know that family planning was implemented in 1982, when most of them were still in their early twenties.
And after forty years, in 2016, forty years later, they have also entered old age, and the remaining child who was once because of family planning has become a mark of the times, and the Chinese family 421 has formed a new pair of parents, who have to support two pairs of parents and one child.
It can be said that the pressure of the only child can be described as quite large, and in addition, there is another key issue worthy of attention from many of us, that is, today's empty nest elderly, only the elderly in rural areas have reached more than 200 million, compared with urban areas, this part of the elderly in the early years, mainly to farm for a living.
After a lifetime of hard work, raising children, but when they are old, they have to face too much pressure on their children, and whether they have financial resources, even if the minimum guarantee given by many places is only enough to maintain their minimum survival expenses, in this case, the situation of the rural pension is embarrassing.
Not to mention that today's young people are under a lot of pressure, and their children will face high housing prices and high prices when they grow up, and at the same time, they must work hard in the city and strive to have their own place in the city, so the pressure on their children has been very large, not to mention that today's social competition is really fierce and cruel.
In this case, in order not to increase the burden on their children, but also to avoid becoming a drag on their children, many elderly parents, in rural areas, rely on the minimum guarantee, with the lowest cost of living to maintain their own lives, and even can not see their children several times a year, not only to endure long-term life embarrassment, but also to endure long-term loneliness and long-term pain of long-term loneliness.
<h1 class="pgc-h-arrow-right" data-track="38" > old and helpless, and gradually become scars and helplessness in many rural areas</h1>
It can be said that for many children in rural areas, it can be said that the rural elderly are their inner scars, but also their inner pain, on the one hand, the cost of living in big cities is increasing day by day, the higher the original, the more difficult it is to settle down in a big city, on the other hand, the parents are old, but they have achieved nothing.
After seeing the prosperity and beauty of big cities, how to be willing to return to small cities, in small cities, sometimes it is not only their own vision and human resources, but also their future development and the growth of the next generation, so even if the pressure of big cities is greater, they still want to give themselves a future.
Today's young people, whether they are facing the high cost of marriage, such as buying a house, buying a car, a bride price, or facing high pressure of employment, such as 996, 007 and crazy overtime weeks, as well as facing the anxiety of a 35-year-old career, it can be said that the pressure of life forces them to continue to work hard.
And if you come out of the rural areas of the child, you can better understand this huge gap and gap between the big city and the countryside, the parents are not only old, but also can not provide much help to themselves, they are not easy to get into college, to the society to find that in this era, it is really too difficult to struggle on their own.
Others have backgrounds, resources, and platforms prepared by their parents, but the only thing they can rely on is themselves, they have seen the poverty and backwardness of the countryside, they will no longer be willing to be like their parents, facing the loess and facing the sky to live this life, for their own sake and for their children, they will work hard to take root in the city.
And for parents, they are sometimes very weak, after all, even their own desperate, not necessarily stay in the big city, even buy a house and buy a car to exhaust all their youth, for the parents' pension is even more out of reach, the only thing that can be done is to pay a salary or bonus every month, to give parents some support.
But in the face of buying a house, buying a car, and marriage, and even the pressure of parenting behind them, these huge mountains, they can only bravely carry themselves, because there is no one behind them, and their elderly parents help them guard the dilapidated old houses in their rural hometowns every year, and they usually go back once or twice a year.
The elderly are accustomed to rural life, and the elderly are also accustomed to the lonely watch, their biggest wish is that the children can go out of the countryside and enter the big city, so now their biggest wish is not to become a drag and burden for the child, so this empty nest and watch has become the daily life of many rural elderly people.
epilogue:
The old have nothing to rely on, the old have nothing to support, is becoming more and more rural scars and helplessness, but from another aspect, this is also a common dilemma in many rural areas, because the previous generation of parents have a low level of education, desperately gave their children out of college, and finally out of the countryside, but when they are old, they are facing the dilemma of having nothing to support and no one to rely on, because there is no stable job and social security for a long time.
So most people in rural areas of the elderly, in the end can only enjoy the rural area of the minimum security, for the future development of children, they can not do anything, do not want to become a drag and burden to the child, this sense of watch and empty nest loneliness, as well as the sense of powerlessness of children can not feed back, but also become a lot of rural areas of indescribable sadness, but also become the real portrayal of the elderly in rural areas of today's aging society, do you think?
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