The unprecedented speed and magnitude of ageing in China are creating quagmires for its sustainable growth and development. China＇s simultaneous regime transition and socioeconomic transformation amplified the diffic...The unprecedented speed and magnitude of ageing in China are creating quagmires for its sustainable growth and development. China＇s simultaneous regime transition and socioeconomic transformation amplified the difficulty in finding comprehensive solutions to the fast expansion of ageing-induced demands. This paper analyzes the Chinese government＇s action on ageing from pohcy, politics, and management perspectives. While policy progress in pension, medical care, and elderly services is substantive, the capacity gap, regarding criteria like coverage, affordability, sustainability, and quality, remains large. Improved political visibility of elderly issues has enhanced their policy priority, but better channels of pohtical participation of older people are to be created and institutionalized. The ongoing trends in public management, induding intergovernmental networking, collaborative service delivery, and innovations in tools of governmental actions, have to be furthered and consolidated. The systematic challenges of ageing demand serious capacity development, and impose a mandate to modernize China＇s pohtical-administrative system.展开更多
文摘The unprecedented speed and magnitude of ageing in China are creating quagmires for its sustainable growth and development. China＇s simultaneous regime transition and socioeconomic transformation amplified the difficulty in finding comprehensive solutions to the fast expansion of ageing-induced demands. This paper analyzes the Chinese government＇s action on ageing from pohcy, politics, and management perspectives. While policy progress in pension, medical care, and elderly services is substantive, the capacity gap, regarding criteria like coverage, affordability, sustainability, and quality, remains large. Improved political visibility of elderly issues has enhanced their policy priority, but better channels of pohtical participation of older people are to be created and institutionalized. The ongoing trends in public management, induding intergovernmental networking, collaborative service delivery, and innovations in tools of governmental actions, have to be furthered and consolidated. The systematic challenges of ageing demand serious capacity development, and impose a mandate to modernize China＇s pohtical-administrative system.
