Elderly getting top priority

President Xi encourages more private-sector investment, fewer barriers for 'sunrise industry'

The issue of elderly care, once rarely touched by China's top decision-makers, is getting unprecedented attention from a long list of ministries and even from President Xi Jinping.

On Wednesday, 25 ministries, including the China National Committee on Aging, the National Development and Reform Commission and the Ministry of Finance, jointly issued a national guideline on how to improve the living environment to better meet the needs of the growing number of senior citizens.