Foreign media saying old men fall in love with China Tourism: past suffering is playing | | the elderly _ in the tour news

Reference news June 8 Li Caohua (sound) when nearly 60 years old retired from doctors. Just retirement, she began to travel like any other millions of elderly people in China, more places to look at the homeland.

According to the associated press reported on June 6, Li Caohua wanted to go to Hainan and the ancient villages of the surrounding Beijing, then China's most spectacular scenery-the Yangtze River and cloud-filled gorges.

In the past decades, Li Caohua survived the famine in the late 50 's. Now, Li Caohua and hundreds of elderly people, often in Beijing's Temple of heaven Park to dance, play cards and chat. She said that's playing time.

Li Caohua said: "in China, we're lucky, we can travel, we've been to many places. ”

Travel agencies providing services for elderly people in China, in China under the background of tourism development, tourism market is expanding rapidly in the elderly. According to the China daily newspaper reported, China's number of elderly visitors last year compared with soaring 58%, 62% seniors to choose package tour.

The evening of June 1, there's a group of older persons was bad luck. A ship carrying more than 450 people (mostly elderly) passenger ship caught in a storm on the way, capsized in the Yangtze River. As of 6th, nearly 400 people have been confirmed dead. This is China's deadliest shipwreck tragedy in about 70 years.

Travel agency staff member Qi Chunguan (voice) said, there are many tours designed for the different income groups of elderly, such as some cheap 5th tour in Hainan, tours (not including airfare) as long as 3000 Yuan. The Yangtze River-themed line, most of the tour is to fly to Chongqing, then by boat for Yichang.

Qi Chunguan said: "in the past, older people save up all the money. Now, they want to go out and see the outside world. These people have suffered in the past. Now, economic development, life was quite different from the past. ”

Reports that elderly tourist boom to become one of China's economic bright spot. At present, the aging population is one of the most daunting policy challenges.

United States of CAI Yong, an associate professor of sociology at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill said that, according to United Nations data, by 2030, China's population over the age of 65 will reach 210 million. Retirement system faces a serious challenge in China, especially China's one-child policy limits to provide the elderly with pensions and other benefits of the "working-age population."

CAI Yong said: "it is clear that 10-15 years in the future, is not optimistic about the future of the pension system. China is grappling with new economic realities, and the new demographic realities is a part of. ”

But Qi Chunguan said, the middle-class seniors, have strength in numbers.

In China, many of the city's parks, everywhere can see "the Granny square dance"; in the forbidden city and other tourist attractions and always see a large group of elderly people.

Qi Chunguan said that elderly people in China's most popular tourism destinations in China, including Fujian province and Sichuan province.

A 55-year old named Shu (sound) real estate manager said recently, he along with other old people, spend 600 Yuan per person in the villages in the surrounding Beijing conducted a two-day trip. He said that this is his semi-retirement a part of daily life. He said: "If you have the money, go out and play. I like this lifestyle. ”

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