An Introductory Study of China`s Population Aging and the Current Elderly Status

In this century, the population age structure has changed obviously in the past 60 years since foundation of P.R China. China``s population aging growth trend emerged in 1970s. In recent years, population aging accelerates and has an important effect on the socio-economic development. It is limited to solve the problem of population aging by improving the fertility level, because it is a real problem that the number of the elderly is large and it``s a huge increment. The issue of the elderly family``s support decline, and the inadequate economic and social security should be resolved by society development and distribution system, etc. China``s population aging in the early time is dominated by the fertility decline, and the influence of mortality decline continues to grow in the later stage. Overall, we project rapid population growth in the China``s eldelry.