More elderly need care as China turns gray

By Xie Chuanjiao | China Daily | Updated: 2009-02-07 07:56

An elderly woman gets a subsidy from officials of the village committee in Qingkou village in Yiwu, Zhejiang province, on Jan 24, two days before Chinese New Year. All Qingkou residents are covered by a pension fund and more than 320 elderly people in the village are given allowances regularly. Zhang Jiancheng

China will see a big surge in the aging of its population this year, after it entered the list of aging societies in 2005, Vice-Premier Hui Liangyu said on Thursday.