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Shanghai faces aging problem

By Wang Zhenghua | China Daily | Updated: 2008-10-01 07:23

SHANGHAI: One in three people in the city will be a senior citizen by 2020 as its population rapidly ages, the city's family planning agency has said.

Shanghai, the first Chinese city to become an "aging society" in 1999, will have 34 percent of its permanent residents aged 60 or above in a dozen years' time, a report from the Shanghai population and family planning commission said.

The report was issued to mark the International Day of Older Persons, which falls today.

Shanghai faces aging problem

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