BEIJING, April 9 (Xinhua) -- China's elderly care industry is embracing a package of favorable policies after launch of more than 30 detailed measures from regulators including the Ministry of Civil Affairs, reported the Xinhua-run Economic Information Daily.
Currently, China's top economic planner - National Development and Reform Commission, the Ministry of Civil Affairs, and National Health Commission are conducting new rounds of surveys towards community aged care service institutions, and combined medical care and elderly care for future sector development.
Guo Wei, vice director of Research Office of Chinese cabinet – the State Council said this year, elderly care was mentioned 16 times, which has never been seen, in China’s government work report and in the future, a series of measures will be unveiled to improve China’s elderly care system.
In experts' view, the present sector development focuses include strengthening elderly care capacity, deepening and broadening combination of medical care and elderly care, and optimizing aged care services via improving profitability of elderly care institutions.
Apart from these, fully opening up of elderly care market and pumping private capital and foreign investment into the sector are also key points for guiding future policies drafting.
Previously, Lian Weiliang, deputy head of NDRC noted that China will further relax control over entry of social capital into elderly care sector and take multiple measures to increase elderly service supply this year. (Edited by Duan Jing, duanjing@xinhua.org)
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