摘要
Census data of 2000 indicated that the Chinese population aged 65 and over had accounted for 7% of the total population. In urban areas, in particular, that ratio was 6.30% and in rural areas, it was 7.35%. On average, China had entered an aging society. In recent years, old-age support in rural China has caught the attention of government officials and scholars alike. This is because rural households have undergone drastic transformation in size and structure as a result of the enforcement of the family planning policy. Coupled with the urbanization process andmassive migration of rural laborers into cities, the aging process in rural China has accelerated,challenging the traditional pattern of old-age support in rural China.
