Home comforts for both the elderly and young

Over the past five months, Tan Peifang, 84, and Wang Xinhang, fresh from college, have lived together in the seaside city of Fuzhou in Fujian province.

They eat together, chat and go out for walks. To all extents and purposes, they look like a loving grandmother-granddaughter pair. But they are not related. Up until Wang moved in, they had never even met.

Widowed eight years ago, Tan chose not to move to live with her two sons working in the same city. Both were married and she thought it would be inconvenient.