长寿时代与长寿红利

Longevity Era and Longevity Dividend

“长寿时代”是一个比老龄时代更积极、更富前瞻性的概念。长寿时代、长寿社会与人口老龄化、老龄社会的概念虽有交叉却并不等同。长寿时代蕴含着长寿红利,包括人力资本日渐丰厚、经济资本大大提升、技术资本持续增强、社会资本不断延展等。激发长寿时代的长寿红利,须从延长长度、拓展宽度、挖掘深度入手,延展个体生命周期的生产性年龄时长,激发个体资本禀赋潜在的多维面向,突破长寿红利的浅表层次,在系统性的制度、组织、个体努力的多重保障下,助力长者都能实现自我价值,达成各享其益、各得其美、美美与共的社会目标。

In 2021,the population of the elderly aged over 60 and 65 in China exceeded over 267 million and 200 million respectively,accounting for 18.9 percent and 14.2 percent of China's total population,and the population of those aged 80 and above is also growing rapidly.These numbers indicate that China has moved from an aging society to an aged society.Living up to 100 years is more promising than ever before,and the“era of longevity”,which has never been experienced before,has already arrived.In the 21st century,the family and society,China and abroad,young and old,will have a longer time to live with the elderly.Recognizing the longevity era,an unprecedented demographic pattern,and exploring the longevity dividend of the longevity era,are both new challenges and opportunities in the journey of human civilization.This paper attempts to define the concepts of longevity and the longevity era,analyzes the longevity dividend embedded in the largely extended life expectancy,and discusses the path to stimulate the longevity dividend.It proposes that the longevity era is a concept that is more positive and forward-looking than the term of aging era or population aging.It also suggests that in order to stimulate the longevity dividend,it is necessary to extend the working years of individual life by gradually delaying retirement ages,expand the varieties of productivity by inspiring the productive potentials of largely improved multi-dimensional capital endowment of individuals,and explore the depth of productivity by going beyond the participation of Square Dancing or volunteering,and play a role in passing on cultural heritage and political wisdom,etc.With favorable institutional and organizational support,as well as individuals'willingness and efforts of continuous social participation,the elderly can realize their own values to the family and the society,the goals of self and others can be unified,and thus the world can be harmonized.