The average life expectancy of residents in Shanghai has hit 83.37 years. gao erqiang / china daily The average life expectancy of residents in Shanghai reached 83.37 years in 2017, according to statistics released by authorities recently. Figures by the city's civil affairs bureau, office of senior citizens services and statistics bureau show that life expectancy has continued to climb in Shanghai. The life expectancy of men and women was found to be 80.98 years and 85.85 years respectively. The number of registered individuals aged 60 and above in Shanghai reached 4.84 million in 2017, an increase of 5.6 percent from the previous year, accounting for 33.2 percent of the 14.56 million registered citizens in Shanghai. The city's growing life expectancy has spurred the construction of more elderly care facilities. According to official statistics, there are presently 703 nursing facilities housing 140,400 beds for the elderly in Shanghai, a 5.7 percent rise from last year. In addition, there are 100 elderly service centers in the community, including 68 new ones that were established in 2017. There are currently 39 geriatric medical institutions, including hospitals and nursing homes, providing about 11,700 beds for the elderly, a 29.6 percent increase from last year. More than 290 educational institutions, which have a membership of 366,900 senior residents, are operating in the city. Statistics show that the city has around 15,200 senior art teams, 16,100 sports teams, 467 elderly sports association, and 10,146 elderly volunteer teams that hold regular activities. There were also 750 legal aid cases involving the elderly in 2017, a decline of 13.5 percent from the previous year. More nursing services and elderly care facilities will be added this year to cater to the growing need among the local population, said Zhu Qinhao, director of the Shanghai Civil Affairs Bureau. [email protected]rainbow rubber braceletscustom silicone wristbandsplain rubber wristbandsjac vanek rubber braceletrelationship bracelets
Premier Li Keqiang talks at a gathering of outstanding foreign experts working in China on Monday in the Great Hall of the People in Beijing. WU ZHIYI / CHINA DAILY China will continue with supply-side structural reform and produce more appealing policies to attract foreign professionals to work here in an enhanced effort at opening-up further in 2018, Premier Li Keqiang said on Monday. With our country's door to the world opening even wider, we will produce more appealing policies to attract foreign talents to work in China and provide more convenience for your lives here, Li told a gathering of outstanding foreign experts working in China. Ten days ahead of Chinese Lunar New Year, Li attended the annual event in the Great Hall of the People to send greetings and collect wisdom from more than 60 scholars and business leaders on achieving high-quality development, smart manufacturing and improving the quality of higher education. Li expressed his gratitude on behalf of the Chinese government to foreign experts in China for their contribution to the country's progress of modernization and reform. Noting that 2018 marks the 40th anniversary of China's reform and opening-up policy, Li said the government will fully implement the five to 10 year visa policy for foreign experts and issue more favorable policies for foreigners working in China, including easing terms of applications for permanent residency. He said that under the Communist Party of China's strong leadership, with General Secretary Xi Jinping as the core, China's economy remained in good health in 2017, with a better than expected annual growth rate of 6.9 percent, the first acceleration in annual growth in seven years, contributing to more than 30 percent of the world's economic growth. The Chinese economy will not face drastic fluctuation, as its economic structure has been remarkably improved with consumption leading its growth in the past several years, Li said, ruling out the possibility of a hard landing. The government will comprehensively deepen reform while preparing for all kinds of risks this year, he said. He encouraged experts from overseas to continue to actively participate in China's growth in innovation and industrial upgrading, adding that their ideas will be more than welcomed. Edmund S. Phelps, winner of the 2006 Nobel Prize in Economics and dean of New Huadu Business School in Fujian province, told Li at the meeting that he has just received the new 10-year visa for foreign experts. It is encouraging to see China creating an increasingly conducive environment for entrepreneurship and innovation, he said. And I think this open policy will bring more foreign talents to China to showcase their expertise and to join in China's development. John Hopcroft, a foreign member of the Chinese Academy of Sciences, shared his thoughts with the premier on improving the evaluation system of China's higher education. In January, China's State Administration of Foreign Experts Affairs announced easier visa permits for foreign professionals and high-skilled workers who qualified among efforts to bridge the country's gap in foreign experts, with the expiration date of the visa extended to five to 10 years after issuance, with multiple entries and 180-day-stays for a single entry.
